The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-07
WINN1PEG's EXPERIMENT. "A SUCCESS.

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Proponents Of the public ownership Of public utilities system,
and the immense values to be derived therefrom, may point to the,
contention that the people as a whole are best served by the sys-
tenn which they are advocating n e, Ih at n Sly, the me METROPOLIS Of 20 Ct
resented by its hydro-electIic system, which has developed into
n spite Of war depression, the annual statement for the fiscal
period ending Sept. ! diseloses q surplus Of ss4,57A5s This brings
The plant supplies electric light and power il Winnipeg and
adjacent suburbs. It's 9 very healthy proposition. The total as
fu nd I. AMOUNT s5Gto T. IL 7 5 } IS a' IT, o~onssf d Ta atoef ana aaa d s5sae,
pe ~ eps "a espital Ea aeo 3 aiay 81 const 5ueals. 'a and ye easi ,nees ts s1i *
72o briaaing the tota!.capftal investnas,t W TO s755aA922.
penses, interest on The funded and aoating debt, depreciation and
fund, annual leves,. etc the balance from the years rev
ReceiP3ts came chiefly from The following sources: CONNER
e eola i 1dd SO, 553; domestic li@ht Ss5s,425; commercial power,
s ,o2o.48o. The total expense was ses5,so5 and the important
items in the expense account were, interest on bonds, %ss1o13o;
But the chief feature Of the situation which appeals to the
price Of these commodities since the civic system W, was i installed d
1t has M been in r operation 10 years: q. q
price Of light was 20 cents and power 70 cents. Today the city
large consumers under special contracts to as loy as / cent per
the direction of the board Of &c civic cont control j with u ihu . hish-p ar IS u man[
aeer in in charge on1g d IF administration nisa alton. j j. -. - -. !.
benda is n1 shG serious 10 the consequences e1tsa sansS;t to the s1 private ss'Nn co m ssGs whose Who's;
quoted at SIS and dividends have not been paid this su year r. :
barking in The business. : The effort was Va made de' By f citizens atisaa be- be-
cause they thought the cost of light and fuel was excessive. It
was, as the facts have proved.
Before the Courant is again issued Lincoln's birthday-Feb-
luary 12th-will have passed. Therefore we are this week pres
enting our readers with a page which contains much interesting
matter concerning the Great Commoner, and which is we'll cal
culated to aid in keeping green and in perpetuating the memory
of our first martyred president. No other one event which has
in our countrys history has left a greater. or more last
ing impression in the minds and hearts of our people than has that
of the birth of this truly great man in that lowly Kentucky cabin
one hundred and nine years ago, and, with the possible single ex-
of great, wise and good men is venerated and loved, both at home
and abroad, as is that of the once humble "1linOis rai1sn1itter"-
Abraham Lincoln.
The exigencies Of the present time has decreed that slowly
but surely the amount of food which the individual ordinarily
daily consumes must be reduced, much of it almost to the vanish
ing point. The menu of almost any hotel or restaurant in the
Land has become very much on the microscopic order, but there
not only fitting but commendable, as well. However, it does not
seem to have occurred to the powersthat-be, as it properly should,
to suggest to mine host the propriety of reducing the price in
consorance with the service Understanding the punishment
fit the crime" as it. were.
If the story from Bismarck, which is going the rounds of the
state press, to the effect that $4,000 600 is being annually sent
out OF North Dakota to the eastern mail order houses be true,
and there appears to be small reason to doubt it, then Mr.. Town
ieys "utopian scheme" looking towards the establishment of a
chain of cooperative stores throughout the state is far from being
as chimerical as those who are viciously opposing it would have
us believe, and the sooner he gets it into general operation the
better for the state and for the majority of it's DeOple. +.