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r Captain E. O. Bartlett De a sires Franchise For Bart lett-Campbell Land.« Asked to Prepare Various Forms of h Franchises to Be Submitted to the Public Officials.If the plans of E. 0. Bartlett are it consummated, the two hundred-acre d addition in which he is interested on East Fifteenth street will have a com-plete water works system of its own. 1 Yesterday Captain Bartlett apeared e before the public utilities commission and explained his proposition to them. ^ He was requested to obtain franchises , of various kinds and bring them before lt the commission. These instructions c’ will be carried out in the near future, ? it being understood that Captain Bart-^ lett will investigate similar franchises in other cities.Captain Bartlett represented the Bartlett-Camnbeil addition. The ad-l* dition is partially covered by some of the most beautiful homes in Joplin B and it is absolutely essential to him e that the addition be furnished with water. Until the Joplin Water Works B Company agreed to establish a system ) out to Villa Heights he was working* with the Booster Club in that suburb. ! Owing to the fact that his addition j will not be touched by the system, heappeared before the commission in behalf of the addition.Another water works pronosition is 7 said to be pending also. J. W. Freeman, who has two deep wells at the 1 United Iron Works at Fourteenth . ar.d Joplin streets, is said to have asked for a franchise to furnish waterI for an addition in South Joplin. It is understood that this will be considered.It was expected that the fire, water and light committee of the city council ^ and representatives of the Empire ’ District Electric Company were going to meet with the commission yesterday £ to discuss the plan of that corporation [ furnishing electricity for the city. The ; plan is to absorb the municipal light* plant here. However, those interested* were not present.
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Sep 06, 1912
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