The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-01
BOND ELECTION
COMES TODAY
Ogden to Vote on Purchase of
WaterWorks System With
its Accompanying Benefits.

The question of whether or not the city
the purchase of the waterworks system
will be decided at the polls today. The
indications are that the bonds will carry
by large majority. The fight for and
against the bonds seems to have been one
sided all the. way through. those opposing
setting forth decidedly weak objections.
In the whole matter the city adminiStra-
ton, which is badly split as to politics,
has worked in harmony in favor OF the
purchase
Yesterday the administration issued an
official statement bearing the ques-
tion- 1t was signed by all members of
the council and the mayor and was ad-
dressed to the qualified voters of Ogden
City. 1t reads:
The city officers of Ogden city. believ-
ing implicitly in the advantage to the
citizens to be gained by virtue of the city
owning and controlling its own water
works system, ask the qualified voters of
Ogden City to vote bonds in the sum of
This money together with the sum of
sllI.S33.S3. which has been raised by tax
alton. will be sufficient to purchase the
present waterworks system, leaving d bal
ance in waterworks fund of sl2 233 So
with which to commence immediate work
on the construction of an additional reser-
voir which when finished will guarantee
to the city of Ogden adequate water
supply and sufficient pressure to meet all
emergencies at all times. :
THE Ogden Waterworks company on
the 10th day of July 1908. offered to sell
its present waterworks plant. together
with all its rights and titles, subject to
the bonded Indebtedness of Si00, 900. for
the sum of $155.400 The city council of
Ogden on the I'D day of July, 1905, ac
cepted the offer of the waterworks COM
pany to purchase the entire plant for the
sum above stated, to wit: $l55. 400 subject
to the bonded Indebtedness of 100000. the
70 r.alr off tas0
THE city council on the same day
passed resolution calling for a bond
election TO bond the city in the sum of
$3.50 900 to take up the bonded indebtedness
against the property purchased and to
thereby save the city at least $1,000 per
year in interest.
1T is the intention of the present city
officers to have created a bipartisan
board of water commissioners to handle
and control this municipal waterworks
system, said board to consist of five (5)
members, one of which will be appointed
by the mayor of the city. said appointment
10 be confirmed by the city council. in
September of each and every year. said
appointee to hold office for period of
five co. years without salary. provided
that no member of the city administration
can be a member of the board of water
commissioners. 1t is the belief of the Of
fcers of this city that by the municipal
ity owning its own waterworks system 1t
can give to the citizens of Ogden better
and more efficient water service. better
fire protection. besides making extensions
into districts to which the present water
works system does not reach. thereby CIV
en- to a greater number of persons the
benefit of the waterworks system. rails
ing the valuation of the poperty. thereby
lessening the burden of taxation upon
the whole of the people. The above con-
illusions have been reached after care
full investigation of the present and flu
ture possibility of obtaining a municipal
waterworks plant by the officers of this
city, and 1t is the firm belief of all that
now is an opportune time and this the
best possible course to pursue in order to
give to the citizens of this city NUM-
| cipal waterworks plant
! public discussion of the proposed wa
| terworks and bond issue was had at last