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Show MUNICIPAL PLANT FOR OGDEN. Our city commissioners have under consideration the preliminary plans for the building of a municipal electric plant, as the present contract with the Utah Power & Light company expiros next" February. Ogden, at present, is paying $2400 and over each month for public lights and an expert who lately tested out the service, we are informed, found not more than 50 per cent efficiency in the street lamps, and many of the arcs supposed sup-posed to be 500 candle power were found to be not more than 100 candle power. i mi. i ii . i . . .mis mauer snouiu De pursued oy our city commissioners even to the extent ex-tent of bringing an expert here to make repeated tests. Ogden wants a square deal, and nothing noth-ing more. If the city is p'aying for lamps of 500 candle power, that power pow-er must be delivered. Notices have been sent to the business busi-ness houses and other places, forecasting forecast-ing an increase in the light rates in this city. For years Ogden has been contributing hundreds of thouEands of dollars for an electric service which those who know say has been too high priced. Now on top those high fig- ures is to be pyramided other charges which the community will not accept without a protest. . For years the Standard has been ad-vocating ad-vocating a municipal electric plant as a means of escape from the electric monopoly, and, now that the commissioners commis-sioners have the subject under consideration con-sideration we hope they will persist until they have given the city what it wants. |