Arizona sentinel., 1917-04-19
LIGHT, GAS AND WATER HIGHBINDERS CON-
 TINUE TO ROB YUMAITES.

The Los Angeles highbinders who own the Yuma Light Gas Water Company continue to rob the citizens of 4u ma at pleasure and yet the only made by any of constituted authorities is the granting of an additional fran chse that by the board of supervisors spread it's octopuske tenaces all Yuma county, with word of protest against the present outrageous price char ed for either light gas water.
 Ever since last February expert engineer named Task who halls from the snowwhite city of Los Angeles has been employed by the city council to give physical val uaon of the rotten old rat-trap known as the Yuma Light Gas Water Company That he being we'll paid for his work goes without saying for it we'll known fact that Angeles people in general have yet done anything for Yuma without being we'll compensated for it. Just what the City Council paying for this expert engineer is merely matter of guess work but my information that he will receive least three thousand doarsfor what? To tell what he thinks the old junk pile worth At last weeks meeting of the city council Mr. Expert Engineer Trask quite ready with his written report though he has been working it since about the first of February
 when he wasn't working some other jub. But he did make verbal guess at the value of the local plant and other guess on what would the city put the old plant in workable condition. Now hold your breath
 Mir. Expert Engineer Trask guesses it is worth $751; OOO with and additional $l25OOO to put the old raap in working condition.
 Now wouldn't that pull your cork under and keep bobbn'?
 MT. Expert Engneer IraSk may as well stop rlgnI where he for the taxpayers of Yuma will submit any such outrageous figures the daon of every so-caled expert in the City of Hghbind CTS.
 Just why has taken the expert engineer all this time to furnish written report known at this end of the line. If he is charging much per day" that may count for for all know that Los Angeles people hold 10 good thing very much like grim death holds to dead nigger H however it for the purpose of thorough y exasperang the citizens of Yuma Mr. Expert Engineer Trask is succeeding remarkably we'll That it is outrage to hold this matter in such an uncertainty for such an m definite period is too plain to talk about The people growing tired suspicious Their patience almost exhausted day of reckoning is rapidly approaching Some thing must snap very Summer time is coming We need abundance of water and need lots of cleo rc power Probably that explains the whole situation bet ter than anything else could It will give the Yuma Light Water Company another and better chance to soak with its sixteen and eighteen cents per klowatt for
 uce and make pay any old price peases for water and gas.
 am told that under city charter the aldermen have nothing do with fixing the price of these utilities all this being left to the corporation commission If that
 actually true then it high time the charter be amended this power will be vested in the city council and when that done if the council does the least half in the people go the polls and do the cutting themselves
 Good people of Yuma you had better wake up. Simply because may be in danger of raid from Mexico why you should permit gang of Los Angeles
 ghbinders raid your pockebooks every day the year and then work overtime night when you asleep Wake up before it is too late.
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