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Show -f WHEN BRIGHAM OPENED NEW POWER PLANT ' " l.lMir.. 'I '" ' " a r. j UTAH CITY TO SUPPLY JUKF Former Mayor Peters Closes Switch and Sets Machinery in Motion Last week former INlayor John W. PefefS closed the switch and set In motion the new municipal hvilro-elec-tric power plant :it I iriirliam City. The n'w plant will develop more than 1500 horMpOwera nearly four times tho power generated by the old plant which served the city po well for 18 years. Britrham City has proven through the old plant that municipal ownership of utilities is a paying proposition prop-osition Last year the tdant alone made a net profit of $21,000, while j the residents oi tho city boufcht elec- j triclty from the city for 0 cents a kilo- I watt hour, ne?.rly one-half the rate charged by power corporations One photo phows former Mayor Peters closing th switch at the plant. On the left is Mayor Frank Francis of ( "gden nnd on the right. Mayor N. Cnu Slrnonsen of Brigham City and O. G. Bargeron, city councilman The smaller photo shows the big dynamo lr. th ncf plant. : ' ... tv?.j jJ'Mi' t |