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Show LIVELY SESSION FOR BOND SSLE Brigham City Disposes of $200,000 Bond Issue for $192,500 BRIGHAM CITY, Oct. 19. The city 'council bus accepted the bid of tne Hcnchctte lt"'d company of Cnicago I tor the lirigham City municipal elec-; ! trie light bonds, a f 100.000 Issue voted just recently to rebuild the pipe line 1 und power bouse. The amount offcrd 1 und accepted i$ltU.j00 net to Brig-ham Brig-ham City, which Includes the expenses of City Attomej J- w- LoWf 10 cb- : cago and return. iit Wednesday morning w, f. ! Itullock, representing the Henchottc Bond company, arrived in this cit ' unannouiit el and immedlatel. began looking wi members of the city coun- IpU. He secured U hearing W'cancsday and special meeting was held Wednesday Wed-nesday night when matters were gone into iiirtner, witn Ma) or J W. r..crs I present. Alter oni'M the offer of cents tor ihe bonds It was decided 10 cat! ' meeting ot the taxpayers oi the . ny and present the matter to them. A special meeting was called for the, following baturaaj night. October it. Some or ihe ropreaeutartve men of me cits came to mr in- ling When th muttci was gone intu caret ully. some i ii. il mere was no real Hurry to sell the bonus inasmuch as the market ;s improving some, and others felt that l lie oul iant may ,vc way at an time anu lease tne city in darkness . .i.ii.. tnai it inighi be best to rush the1 work of rebuilding at the curliest pos-siuie pos-siuie moment. I i i. . K i n LRS MCLIX I Mr, ouilook, representing tne Henchottc Hen-chottc liond company, was .present, i nt- newspapers sort of "spitted tho beans' for bim by publishing the offer' he made lor tne bonds and that a ! 1 1 ai meeting nad been called for; hniuiU.iy mgnl to consider m- nut- i . .v;.a ii, aii probauiiuy the Palmer j. oii.i i, mortgage company of S;.lt Lake mad thdl anuoum. eiuent and , sent tin , representative, .Norman P. God be, to Brigham Clt post hasie to uid j'lL a tittle nlghcr than .o. Uul-lots Uul-lots s biu and grao the Issue. Others, . ... et...-. iiuo ...-eji leading the news- j pa ; ioo, and before tne meeting v iw-i ;:i v.aii-c J Air. Uodbe; starling star-ling w ii,.. representing Luawonii, LOtiliUU o. Oi Denver, and A C. BSifcy, representing the Bankers Trust i -j. uf Deliver cowl VO BID. These snr.l.ng gentlemen announced that tne hao read abjut the offer (or Bngham City a municipal gilt-edged gilt-edged bonds and they came to bid for them. Of course Air. Bullock thought this was quite unfair and protested pro-tested on the grounds inat his bid Had Gc-en m'aae public. He was over-. ruled, nowever, and these gentlemen were permitted .o nie bids, which lead m follows: Bankers irust company, f 1.91,250 net Boswbrth, Chanute and company,' i.i i. ..mi net; Palmer Bond and Mortgage Mort-gage company. $192,000 net; tl6l- ' ili.de B.ont1 company s bid was for $idi, uou net. R U&ES Ills i f As soon as these bids were an - ! pounced Mr. imliock staled that he reserved the right to raise his bid since his competitors had knowledge Of the amount ot his bid bef.,i.: th, v , filed their bids, and before he could' be interrupted lm placed his bid at (192a00 net to Brigham City, i In ii there was something doin' " and Mayor Peters hud to use the ' Ravel a-plenty to resiorc order. The low bidders now decided that the sug-gcstlon sug-gcstlon of some of the taxpayers to . oatpi : Ihe sale thirty days was a good or, and advocated that that action ac-tion I taken. .Mr. Bullock then in-' nui i hi,i, roifg since they had decided de-cided it beat to wall awed. when it' became ne'ee'ssarj for Mayor Peters i " again call time " Pollowlng tins proceeding the coun- cil iMiu into executive session and i sftei several hours' debate and con-' sideratlbn the decided tu accept of ' l l .st bid filed by Mr. Bullock for ii. Hencjiette Bond company of rhi-' rhi-' 1,1 1 1" 'lb of 1 1 92,500 net and Attorney Lowe's nip to Chicago' |