Show 1 tim timely topics 7 MUNICIPAL WATER AND LIGHTN light is now contending with the proposition of irli whether ether or not it may have a PT loan of ci buoo 30 percent of which is granted ns ps a ft to the town and the li alance at 4 per cent interest over a 3 30 year the rho blue mt gilt irrl co has turn furn dished these necessities to the itlie people lias has a considerable sum invested and apparently and quite naturally wants ko sell for the hf best price possible it if it sells aside from all tile the non essentials certain matters stand out as important viz I 1 nearly dearly every even town ind and city in state owns its own water system ond ind the practice or rule is of iong ion standing or has become a f fixed habit 2 A large lare number nu of municipalities own their own plants nut but this public ownership libat and pow er Is contested and large corpora eions operate plants flints and render ser vice which in amount rather dominates tile the total paid pahl for tills this in utah in vestments in light and power aro are con sid sider erable alile well trained organizations have consider albe to say vs as well as to do 3 three factors enter thin general sub subject jert service sen ice cost and political roll and iother influences manifested by privately owned corporations 4 1 ceno pays paya lideh dizh rates op we per KW for electric current tor for the first nine and for the lial hal ance and a mial minim Mii of af 0 per res silence for water wafer with such charges ns as per month for a hy by drant in the yard lor for lives livestock toek etc 5 service pervice is not very tery rood good now as to electricity but much better thin than it i j was anis before the recent improvements i but water is not satisfactory for ot flit least part of the town or tile the west able mul find is not ample tor for reasonable le fire protection lit in the hii business siness district C under blah rates and poor service I ico tile the community has become quite and siv sit months no ago and at earlier dates was anxious to get et better service e anil ramps and more comparable with those paid br other towns in similar locations locutions locut ions relative to anter water nt er and power 7 tulip blue sit companas comp anys water and licht for the town represents ren resents mone conw borrowed hor rowed over a period of year sInny secured the oriz original inal capital liy by mort a finx their lands and quite a large lare I 1 number of these have lost their linail engsi nya those who havo held on and a lew few have bocht the lands others have lot will sell out lut the price is the important subject and they want mon ey or assurance that they will get pt it ft in a reasonable time 8 what value it ft reir resents nw now Ts s a question for enzi engineers to ito decide with arii tle the advice of a jude thit that it Is not worth the I 1 sum it filis ilinski cost it all el for and labor alor Is an parent actual value rials plus tile water ater are arc likely the material as sets ft the has haq the ical right to own its own water and if plants ever even it if it if lias bas given elven a franchise to one or more others to operate sim similar ar utilities because the law will vill not per mit a to transfer this evidently lawmakers aarl ed it as balther an imbor important tant lr barnings above oper atla costs lor for the present utilities in anro tl cella as certified tined or filed show how P hat paying approximately 4 1000 per year or fi 0 percent on K or nr a little more or less there 19 i reason to lie lieve liere that these earnings may be in creased 11 when tile matter Is examined from wll oll nozlea nn acs it appears evident the town is lne to own these utilities or install new ones and deserves alesen es tit the support ot of the people in trying to secure public money tit nt low I 1 interest over a long lona period arill and thus insure bettor better service sen ice and good reason to liell believe ve that rates will be lowered 1 private interests are secondary v it to 0 public welfare in taking avate 1 rv f 1 ate property for public use just compensation must he be paid worthy as sentiments are for years ot of private rt rel zit ind investment and Icso losses zes yit the rights are simple and the duty is plain y |