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Show E N CO L'KA(K M KN T N KEDED For the past few years the City of Mount Pleasant has owned and maintained a municipal electric light plant which is indeed a credit to the city. And now that we have such a plant, why not make the best of it. The plant' gives good service and why hot encourage business interests to make use of the current? There is ample power going to waste each day to run several factories. This power should be conserved and put to useful production. The city owns the plant and the administration would do well to give every patron, who will Install electrical elec-trical machinery, a year's service free of charge. There are only a very few business institutions in the city that use day current for running their machinery and manufacturing plants. There should be more. Yes, there should be a great many more making use of the mountain stream. Why not give a year's service free to induce more nise of the plant? The running expense is just the same for four or five of us as it would be for twenty-five more just like us. Think of the second year's income if twenty more patrons were added this year. vThe Ericksen Meat & Grocery Co. has just installed some very expensive expen-sive electrical machinery for running their cold storage plant and it would not be an unwise act for the city to give them a year's service free of charge and then have it published or advertised so that other firms could have the courage to put in machinery and make use of the power which ts not being conserved.. They give such encouragement in other places. Why not here? About all we have running run-ning is three or four little plants and a few flatirons. Let's have more business. The plant belongs to us anyway. Let's build it up and make business hum! |