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Show IlJJjjj WHAT FRANK FRANCIS ADVOCATES. A city campaign is on in Logan, that beautiful commercial center of Cache county, and among the candidates for mayor and commis-j sioner are B. G. Thatcher nd George Dunbar who, in their platform, I make this announcement : .jjfrj "We are for the city electric light plant, for its maintenance as a permanent institution of the city. If elected, we shall endeavor en-deavor to increase the city's electrical facilities and to protec. 1 them in every way possible." The editor of The Standard, who is a candidate for the office of mayor of Ogdcn City, is deeply in. t rested in Logan' lighting problem, prob-lem, because he is advocating a cty lighting system for Ogden. If Logan, after an experience of a number of years, is m favor of continuing its municipal lighting plant and the fact that candidates for office use the lighting system as a strong appeal to the voter is evidence that Logan is for the eltctiic plant then Ogden clenly, should see the advantages ol a c.iy lighting system here The first step should be a distributing system. That is tc say, a line of poles and wirts over which the electric current can be distributed dis-tributed to the homes and business houses of Ogden, the power to be purchased fiom the big producers. There are great electric trunk lines running through Ogd n. They are common carriers of electric power and they can no more refuse ' to serve Ogden than could a railroad decline to delivei freight to the people of Ogden. Ogden, once the wires re turned over to the city, would be in po sition to buy the power at approximately 1 1 ? cents. We understand there are many large consumers buying power at a rate far below j that. Ogden would be entitled to electric power at the same figures quoted to patrons of the power company who are in the ame class with Ogden as a consumer of power. Let us illustrate our point by a concrete example. Suppose the business houses and the residences along Twenty-fourth street were to be notified tomorrow that if they were to obtain their own line of wires from the corner of Washington avenue, east and west on that street, they would be cupplied with electric power at 1 1-) cents, : would any householder or business manager decline the offer? No, they would not, but they would hasten to avail themselves of the exceptional opportunity. Then if the project is good for the ' people on Twenty-fourth street, is it not the proper thing for the I ji I1 y entire city? Your waterworks, which is almost a parallel example of public own ership, brought in $1 19,475.79 Iat year, without taking account of the water service given the city for fire hydrants, flushing the streets and sewers, and watering the city cemetery, which, under private ownership, would have cost the city many thousand dollars. A city electric distributing system should be many times more prof-table prof-table than ihe waterworks. , It has been said that the 99-year franchise granted by Ogfi-n City to the Utah Power & Light Company six years ago would be a blrv-k to city control, but legal advxe is to the effect that Orden can lecover ts rights. |