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Show B THE RECORD'S PRESUMPTION. IT WOULD bo presumption on tho part of Tho Record or Its editor E to attempt to givo advlco to tho people m of Parowan in relation to matters af- B ' fecting thoir material progress and m development, but like many othor B humans we are strong on giving ad- BV vice, whotlicr it is worth anything or ' not. Readers of Tho Record will rc- V member seeing tho announcement that B Parowan is to hnvo another electric B light and power plant, with which to B opcrato tho pump wells, which sounds B good for tho progressiveness and pub- B lie spirit of tho placo, and is without Bfl a doubt n worthy enterprise, if thero BB is demand for tho service. But hero BB is tho way tho matter appears to ono B f at this distance: Parowan already BB ' has a very nico little light and power BB plant, which is being run practically BB ' only during hours of darkness. In the BB day time tho plant is idle, and the BB investment is not earning anything BB;' for tho stockholders. Would it not BB i bo good business policy to uso this BB idlo power during tho day time, and BB Bay between midnight and morning, in BB pumping wator from tho many excel- BB n lent wells that can bo and already BB i; hnvo been developed in that valley, Bt H rather than to allow this plant to lie Bj practically idlo 18 hours out of tho Bti 24 and work it anywhere near its cn- BBT pacity only about 6 hours out of the Bj 24 ? And then, when tho full efficiency BBJH of tho present plant is utilized and BJ found inadequato, it will bo time BJ enough to finance another plant. In BJ ' the meantime, tho power eito could BBJij bo filed on and protected, and held BBVF? until thero was need for it. BJp This is n phaso of this question for BBK which wo do not claim copyright, as BK it is advanced and endorsed by some BB of the Parowan pcoplo themselves; but BBB ( it hns a ring of reason and common BB' sense about it to our way of think- BBB ing. Thoro aro so many worthy un- BBL dertakings in a new country like ours BBBj that require capital to further them, BT tha(. it seems wasteful to talk of in- BBB vesting money in any important cn- BBB torprise that is not really essential, or BBB that is premature. Thin money could BB f be used to so much better advantage BB" in tho Improvement of the" many BBB splendid farms of tho Parowan val- BBB ley, and the enhanced value of theso BBB in a year or two would more than tako BBB care of this second light plant by the BBB timo it is actually required. |