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Show COMMERCIAL CLUB ACTIVE The Milford commercial club held an important business meeting in the bank building last night, President Presi-dent Pearson, , presiding and E. B. Jorgensen in his place as secretary. The special order of business was the discusstra of the electric power question, however Mr. Haskell, water expert, and' Mr. Norr, the sugar beet man, were also present and made re-j re-j ports on the progress being made in ! this respective line of work.': Mr. Haskell said a well rig had been ordered that, is, he: notified the manufacturers that he wanted a rig and was waiting for a telegram as to the details, but he did; not expect ex-pect delivery for perhaps three months. mon-ths. . Mr. Norr reported', that there were 8 8 acres of beets in and up and that thinning would begin the coming week. He advised the planting of al-j falfa on some of the land for a couple cou-ple of years before beets, but said most of the land would raise, a good crop the first year. He estimates that there should be 1000 tons rais-j ed here this year. . Mr. H. B. Waters, manager of the ' Telluride Power company, addressed the meeting on the question of power. pow-er. Among other things he said that one of the reasons that sometimes the rancher thought the power companies com-panies were robbing them, was that poor equipment was used to pump with certain cheap grades and makes of pumps were used which when new gave' an efficiency of 60 to 75 per "ent the first mnoth or so and gave a very reasonable cost of lifting the water, but as the pump became worn the efficiency dropped to sometimes as low as five per cent With a consequent con-sequent increase in the cost of lilting lilt-ing the same head of water and the power company was frequently blamed blam-ed for the increase in their power nls. The farmer and power people could always work together to their mutual advantage best when good equipment was used. He estimated that with power at $6-00 per h. p., per month, 24 hours per day, with .mall 3-inch pump, that it . would cost 70c per acre-foot to' raise water 25 feet. This was figuring with an equipment- giving 54 per e'ent effi1 ciency, but with a larger equipment, lifting 5 second-feet the same distance dis-tance and having an efficiency of 7'2 per cent the cost per acre-foot would be only 48c A 20 horse power motor mot-or would furnish the power for the larger outfit. His company is ready-to ready-to cooperate with the ranchers, in tact it is anxious ior just mis kiuu of business. He estimates that the I cost of the power line from Milford make any definite cmfwypmfwyfwy ' would be 'about $1000' per mile. Before Be-fore he would 'be in a position, to make any definite proposition, he would have to know more aboijt the probable demand which " would be made on the power line, so as to intelligently in-telligently figure the style " of- line which would be required to serve the consumers. j" The meeting adjourned, promising to assist Mr. Waters in obtaining the desired data.' A number of interested interest-ed Beaver owners were in attendance |