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Show H - i The City light Plant. BB.' It Is Indeed gratifying to note the support BB I accorded the city electric plant. Already 2000 Hq lights aro connected and thcru urc orders for BB t many more. BB A statement from ono of the Hercules pco- BB ' pic Is to the effect that at three lights for a BB , dollar, It will require not less than 2,250 lights BB a ! v i before the plant will pay more than expenses. BB ' This means that thcro must bo a monthly BB' business of at least $750 to pay expenses. BB i This figure may not be too high, as It comes BB- from an experienced man, but Tiik Rkpuhli- BB can has figures of a plant referred to in our BB , last issue, the average monthly expense of BB " which during January, February and March BBj amounted to exactly $450.13. This plant lights BBj a city tho sire of Logan and these llgurcs arc BB for the worst months of the year. Just why BBi tho expenses of the city plant should greatly BHi exceed this after the affair Is In thorough BH working order Is hard to conjecture, but even BBj though the expense runs to the figure named BBJ; by the Hercules authority, It seems that the BH' J city plant will be ablo to pay expenses the BBt a first month. Hut 250 more lights arc needed BK 2 to run the monthly business up to $750. and BBE J inasmuch as most of tho present orders for BBf I lights have come without solicitation, It cer- BBj talnly seems that a thoiough canvass will add BBt many hundreds. Up to the present time the BBl f city has not made connection with any motors BBft i j and there are sufficient number of these deslr- BBJ I Ing city service to furnish an excellent revenue. BBj' 2 The success of the city plant depends wholly BBJ7 upon the support accorded by the people and It BBJ j seems that the people understand this. A bus- BBE lncss man who would neglect his own business BBK , and patronize a competitor would be deemed BBj foolish, and for tho city people to patronize a BBJi competitor of an Institution owned by them- BBli selves would be equally foolish, especially when BBK the competitor makes Inducements calculated BBV to wipe out tho homo Institution, and that BBb evidently has the disposition to take the ad- BBm vantage a monopoly would have. BBS Logan pcoplo arc and should continue to BBj, prove lojal to the Logan city light plant. It's J, money In their pockets in the end. |