Show FORMER MAYOR OF PRICE SPEAKS 1 T riff A PP AT MASS MEETING mass meeting called by roosevelt havor considering municipal power plant draws A large lai ee crowd wednesday evening may 11 a public meeting was held in the new ward chapel for the purpose of explaining to the general public what is ia expected of a city in order to install a municipal pow M r plant whitmore introduced the first speaker of the evening frank fra ik olsen former mayor of 0 price mr air olsen the power trust sympathized with the directors of the local power company and in the same breath pleaded with th them am to purchase a municipal plant the second speaker introduced was N C todd representative of the fairbanks morris company who sets up tip municipal power plants mr todd endeavored endea ored to explain superior qualities of 0 his companie I 1 s machines and equipment and to prove the successful operation of some municipal power plants put in operation by his company ile he also explained that he was on one hand representing the high powered tile the wall street banker ile he assured the people that his company and the lie represented that if roosevelt wanted such a plant and would sign up 93 13 1 3 per cent of its consumers of electric energy that they would make the installation mr todd admitted that he nor his hia company had not made a survey ot of the city and was pot not in a position to say exactly what such a plant would cast but ed it at fifty thousand dollars for the third speaker of the evening the th mayor whitmore introduced trod our local manager ot of the uintah power light company M E lundberg who in a few chosen words explained what his ala company was doing in tile the way of eq quip pin themselves in order to give the people of the basin better service mr lundberg also explained that jils his companas comp anys new power rites rates woula KO go into effect by the first day of june ile he asked that the good leopla of roosevelt give him and his bis company a chance to prove that they oin cin and will be able to give service zer vice from now on with as good a light as any other company could possibly give tile the last speaker sp reaker was M anderson of the rutih power light company from vernal who questioned some borne of the printed reports re referred forred to by mr todd ana mr olsen olaen the mayor then informed med UK th audience that if there was anyone on who wished to sign up an agreement for a municipal plant that A C harmston alfred L luolin otin olin or himself would take care of them at this point J austin paek addressing the speakers asked that the people defer signing up until they investigated more what they wore were sign Bl gning ting that he himself had not been given enough information t to 0 base a clean cut judgment |