Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-06-08

Electricity has come to be a
daily, and we might say an hour
ly necessity in majority of the
homes and business establish
ments of Cedar City. In a great
many places of business such,
for instance, as The Record of
flee, we are scarcely able to do
anything at all without it. II is
the motive power which propels
our typesetting machine, our Job
presses, our cylinder press, fold
ing machine, and is even en-
ployed in the business depart
ment in connection with our cor
respondence and the preparation
of our copy for the paper, besides
keeping us cool through the me-
dunn of the electric fan; in the
garages it is employed in pump
ing tires, vulcanizing and turning
various machinery; in innumera-
BILE homes it heats the fiat irons,
turns the washing machines, cleo
trio fans, cooks food, ETC.; it is
employed in the hotel, the ice
cream foctories, and elsewhere for
power; it planes, turns and saws
lumber; runs iron lathes, and var
ious other machinery, all in addi-
ton to lighting our homes, streets
and places of business. It there
fore can be easily seen that a
hardship is worked on somebody
every time the current is off.
The local company has been
struggling along and doing the
best they could under the cir
cumstances, and people have put
up with the irregularities in the
service without saying much; but
as the business has grown and we
have come to depend more and
more upon the electrical agency
in our daily affairs, and satisfied
to pay our good money for same
when it is furnished, we feel that
we are entitled to a dependable
service. The company's dam and
ditch are not such as to guaran-
tee this in times of high spring
water and summer freshets. There
should be a good cement dam,
with spill way, sand and gravel
trap, etc, so that every freshet
that comes down the creek would
not fill the entrance to the race
and dam off the water, leaving
the town in darkness for from one
to two days.
1t would be economy and good
business foresight to make such
an improvement, for the temper
airy repairs now being done would
easily pay interest on the money
required to make a permanent
job of it, to say nothing of the
money lost to the company by
reason of the interruption to the
service and the fact that many
more uses would be found for this
form of energy if it were abso-
lutely dependable.
We understand that outside
capital stands ready to take the
plant over and place it in po-
sition to give dependable service,
and while we would much prefer
to see it operated by a local com
pany, we have about reached a
point where we MUST have de-
pendable service and if the local
company is not financially able
to give it to us, then we believe
that it would be in the interest
of the progress of the community
for them to step to one side and
transfer the business to special
lists in this line of work, just as
they have done at st. George,
Richfeld and number of the
other small cities of the state.
Is there anything scurrilous, sla
derous, or unwarranted about tn
For the most part it is such boo
for the use and value Of electricity
the company's stock in trade--as a
good publicity man or shrewd bu
ness man would be willing to p
very handsomely for, and which COZ
not be purchased in the position
which it appeared at any price.
In the same issue of the paper {
following local mention was made
This has been strenuous week
in The Record office. No electric
current since Monday evening UNI
til this friday afternoon. The
old noisy, balky, whimsical gas
oline engine is poor substitute
at best for electricity, and for
the past day or two we have beer
waging a persistent fight, backed
by some of the local gas engine
doctors, to keep it going. Al
best the issue will be few hours
late, and whether we get out al