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To Buy Or Not To Buy Water Works Battle
Town debates whether Bristol should buy the Bristol & Warren Water Works or let Col Colt run it as a private venture. Colt offers three options including selling the plant as is for 276000, leasing under the old terms, or upgrading to a first class system at about 400000 with a 25 year franchise extension, while revealing past earnings and plans for future improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Colt
Bristol & Warren Water Works Co
Joshua Wilbour
Hezekiah W. Cbhurch
Ezra Dixon
William J. Bradford
O. F. Herreshoff
Dixon
Wilbour
Hhis
HD Bake
Cyrus van Sirck
Rnold, Greene
Water Company
Francis Colwell
Water Works
Water Works Company
Warren
Bristol
Half Way Hill
Elis
Norman
Dlasa
Bristol and Warren
Bristol and
Waldron-Browner Co
Col. Quolt