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Show Letter i To The Editor I Dear Sir: Due to the fact that I am the only original member on the Moon Lake Electric board at the present time, I feel that there should be some facts presented to the members. I shall be pleased pleas-ed if you will address the following fol-lowing to your subscribers. Mr. and Mrs. Member of the Moon Lake Electric Association, Inc. let's turn back the pages of history and see just what they reveal. It reads something like i this: During the month of September, Septem-ber, 1938 a few citizens of Mt. Emmons, Altonah and Bluebell, ' under the leadership of S. K. Daniels united themselves together to-gether and incorporated what is today known as the Moon Lake Electric Association, Inc. Through the diligent efforts of these organizers they were able to get a membership of 175 and procure a loan from the Rural Electrification Administration Adminis-tration in the amouht of S74.000. By the 27th of March, 1939, bids were opened for the first rural electric lines in the Uintah Basin, which consisted of 51 miles. They were so elated that they j wanted to see every farmer in the Uintah Basin have electric! energy and as fast as loans and memberships could be procured, the electric lines were built to the extreme , east and west end of the Basin without prejudice to anyone. The first electric energy was bought from the Uintah Power and Light Co. but it soon became evident with the expanding program pro-gram that they would not be able to supply the power needed. The Board of Directors procured a loan of $256,000 in 1940 to build a three unit power plant on the Yellowstone branch of the Lake Fork river, each unit having a generating capacity of 300 K. V. A. Your Co-op continued to grow 1 i and prosper and accumulated j I $6,000 in Government Bonds, a cushion of credit in the amount of $42,000 by the end of 1945 when a reverse condition took hold of the Co-op. Now as each one of us are share holders in the Moon Lake Electric Association, Inc. we should be interested enough tP investigate and see just what brought about these conditions and put forth an effort to remedy reme-dy them, that we might grow and prosper again. As far as I have been able to read, the opposition op-position to the office remaining at Altamont has not as yet put forth one figure to substantiate their contention that it would be financially better off to move the office, while these figures I have put forth are to me self evident that the Cooperative can make a success with the office at Altamont as it once did in the first seven years. A representative of the R.E.A. that visited our project during December has brought about a disunity in this Corporation, as he is responsible for starting the movement to change the office. Now if I read the literature right that is put out by the R.E.A. they stress cooperation as the foremost objective of a Co-op, even putting it ahead of finance. Fellow members let us give this matter serious consideration and vote intelligently at the annual an-nual meeting. Let us vote to make this an outstanding Cooperative Co-operative and not let personalities personal-ities enter in. : Very Truly Yours, Chester H. Hartman . |
