The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-01-07

throughout the state, not mentioning
the nation, for their business sagacity
and their shrewdness i'm handling big
propositions and foreseeing to a re-
markable nicely, the workings of the
affairs which they undertake. Such
men will not block settlement of
situation such as at present confronts
themselves as well as Logan City.
This being the case. il is incumbent
upon the city council to take up the
differences existing between the two
concerns, and to push them to a sue.
cessful issue. We stated in former
editorial that the raise in the price
of lights fifty per cent would not sat
isfy us as sufficient to NEE the real
Question involved. The electric light
plant is not paying money; it is cost.
the present conditions exist unchanp
ed; furthermore, the depreciation of
the plant is not being met; the bonds
will fall due when the plant
is burnt out, so far as its
natural life is concerned and no pro-
vision is now being made to meet
those bonds. We appeal to every bust.
ness man of Logan city If that situa-
ton is not in immediate demand of at
tention.
Mr.. Business Man, do you know
that the holders of the bonds have a
first mortgage on your business, and
that in thirteen years those bonds can
be called in and your business will
have to stand for it? That is the ul
innate of the matter. Do you realize
that business of yours is going to
pieces? We know that you may with
others. assert that the lighting plant
is making money for the city. 1t is
not; and we challenge anyone to
show wherein it does save money.
! On the other hand, we assert that ev-
cry year it runs, from now on, with
the present arrangements, it is cost.
ing the citizens at least $4,000 a
| year, and will continue to do so for
the next thirteen years when it will
be thing of the past, except as to
debts.
Mr.. Business Man, you nave no bus
mess to sit idly by and see this thing
happen. How can you help it, dc
you ask? BY going to your councilmen
and telling them that you, as a tax
payer, demand that something defin
lite be undertaken to bring this situa
ton to a close. Your vote this fall
win have very convincing effect
and every councilman who considers
his responsibility at all will get down
to figures and figure like good fel
low
Some men assert that the plant is
saving money. A favorite argument
is this: We are paying fifteen cents
for lights. If the Telluride company
had full possession we would be pay
ing thirty five cents for lights. II
therefore follows, is the argument
that we are saving the difference, OF
twenty cents, for each light burned
On this basis, it is estimated that the
city plant has saved s163,0OO daring
the past seven years.
Nothing is more absurd than TO fig
ure this way In the first place, we
do not save the difference. Every
man considers that he can afford
many more lights at ten or fifteen
cents than ne can at thirty.five cents
At the present raise of fifty per cent,
we will be surprised II there is not
a reduction of the number of lights
used of at least twenty-five pea cent.
Put the price up to thirty.flve cents,
and the reduction will be even great
err by long odds, It is a mistake to fig,
ule an increase in revenue of fifty
per cent. There will inevitably come
a falling-off in the use of lights.
Moreover, although it should be cor.
rect to figure that the difference be-