Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-06-02
W. & |. PLANTS
OWNED BY CITY
TRANSFER OF PROPERTIES MADE
LAST WEDNESDAY, WITH THE
DELIVERY OF BONDS
HUGHES new SUPERINTENDENT
is Graduate Engineer and Comes
Highly Recommended.

Last Wednesday the properties OF
the Bonner Water & Light company
were turned over to the city of Bon.
ners Ferry, and hereafter these pub
lie utilities will be owned and man
aged by the municipality. Bonds ag-
gregating 100000 were made out by
the city officials and forwarded Tues
day to A. Fl. Featherstone of Wallace
in payment for the local properties
The bonds run for period of 20 years
and bear six per cent interest
H. H. Hughes, formerly of Chewe-
lah, Wash. has been secured as man
ager of what will now be the water
and light departments of the city gov
ernment Mr.. Hughes is a graduate
engineer with several years experience
In important positions, and comes very
highly recommended. He is a gradu-
ate of the Highland Park College of
Engineering of Des Moines. Iowa. One
of his first positions after coming to
the northwest was with the Doerr-
Mitchell Electrical Co. of Spokane.
where he did construction work Later
he was with the Nixon-Kimmel Co.. as
construction foreman in the building
of light and power plant at Hermis-
ton, Oregon. In 1915 he was superin-
tendent of The Okanogan Valley Power
Co. at Mansfield, Wash, later accept
ing position with the Northwest
Magnesite Co., at Chewelah Wash, as
chief electrician. While employed
there he designed and installed a
100000 electrical plant, the magnesite
company having at Chewelah a plant
costing about $2,000,000 He was with
this company three and a half years
and came from Chewelah to Bonners
Ferry.
"Of course the first thing to do at
Bonners Ferry" said Mr.. Hughes to
the Herald representative, "is to i'm
prove the service with the limited
means at our command at this time
and also develop a larger revenue if
possible. It is useless for me to make
lengthy statements as to what we will
accomplish, but instead I much prefer
to let the reports from the water and
ligh departments speak for themselves
month or two later after we get the
work here organized. One of the first
things to do, however. will be to meter
all electric equipment within the city.
With some on meters and others not,
DIS IL iS now, SOME naturally Lnlnk Jney
are paying too much for their electric
al service and that others are paying
not enough. and dissatisfaction results
We expect to improve the local service
materially, but as I said before, pre-
fer to let later reports speak for our
work in that regard"
Mr.. Hughes expects to move his fam
lily to Bonners Ferry as soon as a suit
able house can be secured.
Frank Berger. the retiring manager
of the local plants. states that he has
two or three positions in view but
nothing to announce at present. He
first plans to take a well earned vaca-
ton. remarking that he had been
steadily employed for 21 years with
out vacation of any extent.
New office quarters for the light and
water departments have been secured
in the Geo. r. Gray building on Koo-
tenai street. New quarters were made |
necessary because of the fact that the |
present offices could not be secured |
for about a month and lease could |
not be secured on the Bonner Water
& Light Co. building.