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Show WHERE THEY BURN LIGHTS IN THE DAY TIME. Traveling along the highways of the country south of Provo the editor of The Standard saw miles of incandescent electric lights burn-' ing m broad daylight and at the end of the string of lights he drove by a small power house on the front of which was the inscnption, "Nephi Electric Plant. ! Up on the mountain side was a flume' and extending to the power' house was a small pipe. There was no one in sight, but the wheels i were turning and down in the valley where Nephi and Manti and Moroni Mo-roni tell of a people devoted to a religious belief, the lights were burn-ing burn-ing brightly and at night the gloom was lifted by this magic of a lit-; tie canyon stream, a few bolts and bars, coils of wire, a house and! community enterprise. The query that came to the editor way down in that part of Utah was of home. Why is Ogden denied the privilege of an equal opportunity? op-portunity? From the artesian wells in Ogden valley there is a pipe line and before the water has reached the consumer in Ogden there is a drop H I 1 which represents power that, converted into electric energy, would place a diadem of light over all this city. But ,wait a minute! Here on our desk, on our return, is a paper, containing a list of 500 failures of municipal ventures into the electric elec-tric field, including a number of waterworks. The argument which this array of failures presents would be staggering, if Ogden had not so successfully directed its waterworks. We presume that in every calling in life a great list of disappointments might be collected, but, 1 to the contrary, success is everywhere to be found, wherever there ' are natural advantages, careful planning, honest administration, un-tiring un-tiring efficiency. |