Show CITY COUNCIL ON LIGHT to own municipal lighting plant will developed Dev elope water power at jericho near joseph other matters considered the city council met in regular session list ehurd thursday ay night with only three councilmen and kaoi ala oi christensen present councilmen han hansen cn and christen ln cn were absent the chief topic for discussion was the proposed electric light system which the mayor layor an and d lighting committee has been working on A leport of the filing of the application for diverting water from the acier sc ter ril er for the purpose 0 of f power was nas presented presente d and discussed it is proposed to tike the waters of the elsinore richfield brooklyn Broi klyn and Annibella canals through the sevier valley canal to a point about five miles from the opening of the cinal c inal known inov n as jericho by the use of the waters of these different canal companies horse cower can be de developed eloped the water i Is then carried back to the river in a tail race about a quarter of a mile in length and then it can be distributed to the various canil can il companies without any loss of water aster the site proposed is an admirable one and the wonder is that hat the council did not net take this matter atter up icare ago and secure its lighting system s stem before the advent of a private concern the council is now to install its own electric light system and the discussion on thursday was along the line of the details at ails of the proposition an estimate of the cost of installation had been submitted by john manson the who installed the tha monroe system s and who is now in charge of that hat plant this estimate was carefully gone over and the counci council I 1 decided to 0 o solicit other estimates from elec companies companie R D young and L i P jensen jeneen were appointed a special committee to confer with aith the canal companies as to the use of the waters for the development of power As elsinore and joseph expect to get in on the proposition there will be no opposition encountered from the canal companies ar mr dunham appeared before the council a id he m was as muc perturbed over the fact that gatei had not been piped to his place near the source of the cites water supply the matter was referred to the committee on waterworks water works with the attorney added licenses for the three saloons wre were app approved and ordered issued chefe are the first licenses issued under the new ordinance increasing the license bills amounting to were allowed and of this was for hydrants which are heing being in stalled in the various streets under the direction of the waters arks corn com cittee |