Show MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP mass meeting eting in favor of it proposed plant of the city at jericho to cost when completed does richfield want mant municipal ownership of its 13 electric light biant that question was answered ans at the mass meeting on right night and the answer w wis was As so pronounced in favor of tint proposition that ever the dullest comprehension was satisfied that the men and women who attended attend Ld tho the meeting had gnei gi ei some ome thought to the matter it was aas a Neti table stampede for i i city owned electric light plant there were nere present many citizens who while favoring muni municipal i ownership were v ere anxious to see the tha present plant viken up tip b by the city and the present company given a fair remuneration mune mun ration cration for its holdings the manner in which the talks of these gentlemen were received showed plainly that the majority were in favor of the municipal plant without I 1 regard to the present plant or its owners here was considerable prejudice exhibited hibi ted too as to the relations between customers of the present plant and the owners thereof it wis is an patent that the present customers were of the opinion thit that th at the thea had been paying too much for their electric lights light sand and this factor whether right or dicing more than ill other mon moed ed the people to favor a municipal plant the meeting was held in the opera house and tillee were several hundred era present with N ith a fair sprinkling of ladies the city council members and the mayor masor and cit city attorney occupied the biage and the meeting was called to order by maor christensen A K hansen was called to make a report of Ithe investigations of the special committee as to electric light plants which had been visited ile he submitted the figures of the cost of avaious plants logan city plant cost which included a dist t ing system alipe a pipe line M ab a dam 1000 and machinery and equipment brigham city had a it p plant which cost logan loan plant was installed in competition to the telluride Tel lunde company and tint company had leen keen charging the people 50 cents per 16 c p lamp per month and 15 cents per kilo wat meter rate after tl tle the e city had decided on a municipal plant thu the telluride company reduced the rate to 10 cents per month for each 16 c p lamp and 2 cents per filowat lilo wat as the meter rate tins this late contin ed and the city hid had to meet it As a consequence the city plant has just been able to pay its operating op enting expenses at that low figure brighina Brig hint city charees chames 25 aerts for each 16 e c p lamp per month and 5 cents per kilowatt kilo wat meter rate salt lake city american fork ephrann ephraim ind mt aft pleasant hid bid all been visited and at each place there ws wes a loinch raap for light than the richfield rate ephraim operate 3 a h p and in two years bears even at the deduced rate the city 1 ad been able to p py i all the operating eap exp expenses anses and of tilt the cost of the plant it D young then present presented cd the estimates of tl e pio rosed plant to be instilled ins tiled at jericho point according Acco iding to engineer Klem schmidt who is the engineer in charge of the aig ir and P jute reservoir the following is the cost of the plant enlarging the canal dower house victor turbine 2500 feet 40 inch pipe k h w generator switch board exciter imbt instillation illation of machinery 1510 concrete foundations it clr ace concrete outlets 3 00 transmission ion line trans transfer for ners 1500 libor labor and incident ils 2000 total cost to city limits A ai i est es imite had been submit cd from the westinghouse company which amounted to the question of hwa how the money could be raised for the plant was vas explained by attorney bates lie ile stated that the limit of bonding for richfield was and of this amount there aie of bonds for the water works arhl tina this lt leaves aves chih can be realized from froin bonding the cost of the distributing sa system stem for the city was estimated at 8 allowing nine miles of distributing lines E E hoffmann asked how the city proposed using r the balance of 0 the money for the completion of the plant as lie he understood that the estimate was v as for the proposed plant w without a distributing in the city ala maor or christensen explained that could be raised by a 15 null mill tx t x and the balance could be secured ba b following follo the same plan which hichi the council followed when the waterworks water works were instilled at th it time more molca i is as needed V vin tan in the bonds furnished and the city council members signed individual notes for the ron ro money n e Y another plan suggs td was aas tt tint the city could mortgage the plant after its monea VES aas exhausted and complete the plant blant with the money thus b cured at this point in the disca sion there wis w is a tilt beav een mr air Iloff mann ind and the cit att attorney orneN as to the ability of the city to raise rais money by the last plin suggested by the mayor al mr r Iloff mann contended that when th limit of bonding wis was reached that tl e city could not incur further indeL indented ted ness without it hout art an infraction of the law mr air bates insisted thit that the courts had construed such leh method of raising the essaiy esaly money as being Nit liiri the rights of the city and griat such a ma mortgage as not a debt against the ci city ty A K hansen suggested that elsinore and joseph wanted to join in the project and that these towns would both stand their share in the cost another plan of raising the money could be pursued by making the cm party pany a stock corporation ind and when ahen the city had aiken all tin stock it could handle the balance could be sold to private individuals charlie Char lii wanted to know how much hore po vcr ter could be developed and whether there would be sufficient water vater at ill all seasons to gen crite the amount of power ponner feces sary ary in view of the construction of reservoirs he was of vie tie opinion that there mi liht bt be a scarcity seir city of water Nater in the winter scions while the reservoirs were filling R D young answered that that matter had reecie recci ved eved attention and there ii at no time any danger from lack of water as the streams stream of below the am invest est desern airn turn furn ish ample NN water ater at any time if all the sevier river water was nas impounded during the winter J al peterson asked for an esti mate of the lighting rates under the new system and mr hansen hansan replied that he belle be leed ed that the rate could be reduced at least one half yr vt peterson was of the opinion that the cities quoted could not be compared with richfield as the conditions were verc vastly different he regarded the estimate fur for the installation as altogether too low and belie ed that the plant would cst at least 40 and might reach 50 if ilic nt lit 1 I 1 uld get that money at 6 per cent it would be doing bell and the ile interest on the money together with ith the operating expenses would run the r ost cost to such a figure that it would v mean practically the same rate of cost of light the maor replied to this and stated ed that even then the city would get its light for the streets hee free and there would be thit sating saing ile he stated that the system of street lighting he would like to see would involve a 1 cost of 2500 per year at the present rate of lighting andrew lawson thought that the chief object of the taxpayer was the securing of better rates and lie ha be heed the people wanted a city plant ile he moved that the council be author aed to continue the work of prelim in arcs ar ea for the instillation of a ea cil ta plant this wis seconded by and tren tien discus discussion bion waxed waed f art frt 1 t ani an anlou I fu ious willis johnson raised the point that the motion was aas out of order the maor ruled the motion was in older C M heppler happle trade made a plea for the city city taking oer the pres present clit com pan ans s plant as the plant would n be a ne necessary Lessary part of the equipment as an emergency pi tilt int geoage llor was mas of the opinion that the present company should re beine some consideration and wanted glinted to know whit hit if anything was nas proposed to lie be done for the present light compan 5 A K hansen answered that if the city ity installed the apropo proposed ed plant there would lie no money left to buy thin the present and tb hit it the meins of the city would not reach the purt purchase 0 of the present ba batem stem and the ansta I 1 tion of the new system but the council was as willing villing to purchase from the local company anything the city could use H N ht bics cs then secured the floor and presented ted the matter of the pres ent compans comp anys cond tion ile he recited how the company had struggled in instilling thu the system and had bad borrow ed the money from cistern capitalists ile he showed th thit it if this s system stena is installed it will krublit the present bent s system stern and who placed the money here for the installing of ii a plant at a time when the city could not put in a plant would loio lobe the money which A hid bid b id I 1 been ecca advanced he urged in faor fa baor or of municipal ower ownership hip but in mide de a for the pur purchase chae of the present b stem his remarks were forceful and fur but the temper of the meeting was so strongly in favor fanor of a new municipal plant that his hia remarks ere roce received ived without vii rn indication of ap drwal george A real beal and mr air libber fisher made short speeches in favor of lie he proposed plant and aid then the question was called the affirmative vote was almost unanimous only six voted against the motion peterson ard hiffmann explained that ablit they were heartily bEer tily in favor of municipal mum muni ciral burthey but they did not think the propose d plant was I 1 practical at ti tie c given estimates major chritensen stated that it was not the intention of the council to crowd this matter on to the peo pl but that the members believed that the city could own and operate a plant to the good of the city he believed that with a judicious judici expenditure of the morey vic the plant could be instilled install cd according to thel atut t the council was disposed to give the pies crit light favorable consideration of their holdings ile he further stated that with the almost unanimous vote note of the people tle council would continue its work and complete the preliminaries for a bond election cind and hasten the matter to completion as scon as consistent with careful work vork J B morrison then tried to be heard as to water rights on the sevier river but the majority of those present seemed to think the matter settled and the noise noie of the departing audience drowned mr air morrisons Morn Morri sons words they were to the effect that great care should be exercised in the handling of the water right part of the scheme as there were many prior rights on the sevier river to these hid h id by the canil canal companies involved then too the damage done to lands by seepage of the canals was something to be reckoned with vuth for the tee future tie te TI e alter nalter n suggested by mr was worthy of 0 consideration but coming at a time when the audience thought IN meeting ended it was h hard rd to get a line on what mr was nas trying to conney coney this cloned the meeting and it was decidedly in fa favor v or of a municipal muni municipal cipa I 1 plant at any cost linn 1101 1 1 mi digestion mrs mao dowling of no ath aie ae san francisco recommends a remedy for stomach trouble she says gratitude for the wonderful effect of electric bitters in a ease case of acute indigestion prompts this testimonial I 1 am fully convinced that for stomach and 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