Electric lights

November 8, 1890 — Mayor Booton has been in correspondence with an electric light company in reference to lighting our town by electricity. He learns that a plant capable of furnishing about 30 lights will cost from $5,000 to $7,000 per year and that the price per light varies according to the accessibility to coal to the town. 

~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier

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