Show waterworks PLANT NEARING 1 work progressing rapidly and will 5 su Q have complete water system the helper town board haa has the town waterworks progressing in fine shape the ditch from the blo rio grande main haa has been completed through the entire length of town down main alain and in i cow now ready for the pipe une line the town board haa has purchased from the spring glen canal co about shares of water stock with which to supply the town the water ia is diverted from price river into the rio grande reservoir and from tt alere are through the spring glen canal to the helper town reservoir just inside the town jimile where it is thoroughly settled and then used by the rio grande and also the town of helper this assure assures the rio grande better water and proves to be a great benefit to the railway company compa nir as s well as the town the th reservoir will coat about 1200 helper ia Is certainly tr st rowing very rapidly and in a few years should be a nice little city there is only one thing thin now that is homing the town back and that t is the shortsighted esa of one of her wealthiest citizens who refuses to sell any of br his property at anything ike reasonable figure in fact he holds ft it at almost a prohibitive e thereby preventing a great greaf many people from buying homes who otherwise would buy a lot if they could be had and build a home and improve the town we are informed that afif fifty ty bouses houses could be rented and sold lo 10 railroad people and othere others if they could be secured thia this party owns roost most of the land in helper and if he would dispose of it at one third the price he be now asks for it it would make him wealthy and would be a monument to his name after he is dead and gone and he would have the good will of hia neighbors instead of their III will and that is worth amore than all hia his money he ile made every cent of hia his money in helper and why should ha he not spend some of it there with the people and for the benefit of the ile people who made ind him rich there would certainly be more satisfaction and real plea turo in this than in hoard board ing it up and when he has passed away have acme some distant relative spend it in thy the east W 9 stratton the wealthiest mine owner in america at one time did some soine good with hi his money he established a home for the miner miners and prospectors at a coat of over but before he died he pent spent millions in improvements in his home town tow and made thoi anda of poor people happy there must have been some pleasure in this in making hundreds of people happy by aiding them in a financial way |