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Show of the company outside capital wll be Introduced If the citizens do no subscribe for all the stock. The Initial Installation will be i 100 horse power plant. The best tua chinery obtainable will be Installed An automatic governor will Insure tin best possible service. Lightning ar Testers will protect tho plant agalns shutdowns from atmospheric disturb ances, automatic voltage regulators will Insure a bright, steady light a all times. In connection with tho power fran chlHe a telephone franchise was aim secured. This modern convenient may not be Installed Immediately, bin If u telephone system Is Installed Ii will be the equal of any system Ii the state, and will use the cenlra energy system. This eliminates th necessity of ringing central. Tho company will be capitalized ai $2.", 0(10, and will Install an equlpmeni for supplying Fillmore alone. Latel transmission lines may be run to Ka nosh, Meadow and Holden, and ma) possibly supply Ilurtner, Oasis, Ies eret, Hinckley and surrounding terrl tory. Chalk Creek canyon affords tin only good power site In this section from a thousaid to two thousant horse-power can be obtained. Tub Is sufficient to run an electric rail way through the valley and supply t large manufacturing community. It time all this power will be utilized and Fillmore will profit by Its de velopment The policy of the company will bt equitable rates, good service and sat Isfled customers. The lighting rate will be CO cnndlepower of tungston l impH for $1.00 per month on the flat rate basis. Tho meter charge will bf ten cents per kilowatt hour. The work will be pushed as rapidly as la consistent with good construction, Mr. Roush Bays lie expects to hiivo light In Fillmore by January 1, 1912. ELECTRIC LIGHTS FOR FILLMORE. At the present time Fillmore Is the largest city In the State of Utah that does not enjoy the conveniences of electric light and power. Within three miles of the center of the county coun-ty seat of Millard County there Is an excellent site for a small power plant. This fact has been well known, attest the m:my continuous tilings on these rights, but no actual work has ever been done. At present there Is no power plant wlthlu the bound ry of Millard County. Many places of less than live hundred Inhabitants support electric liglit companies. com-panies. The county seat, with more than 12uo inhabitants, should support such a company and ought to be anxious to acquire the best advertisement advertise-ment a city can have, good street lighting. ! W. Kouxh now holds the water rights to the power plant site on Chalk creek. The City council h;is granted a franchise for the use of the streets in erecting the necessary poles and conductors. All that is now re-qired re-qired to have electric light and power pow-er In FlPinore is the support and cooperation co-operation of her citizen. If possible a municipality should own its public service institutions Fillmore U unable to build Its own electric plant now, as It still supports the burden of a recently installed waterworks system. The next bet proposition Is for the citizens to own or control the company furnishing them with power. The citizens will be given tbe opportunity of subscribing subscrib-ing for the stink. A canvass of the city will le made to deteruilue the i niou nt of stock that can be subscribed. sub-scribed. anJ also to determine how many will take the lights. If a suf flclent Dumber of lights are guaran teed to secure the financial succem |