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Municipal ownership proven pleasant and profitable here
B C Benham tells Illinois readers Muscatine's municipal water works since 1900 moved to a profitable model and a new electric plant began in 1922 with a $350 000 bond. He outlines the process from politics to business with plant location, staffing, boiler rooms, and turbines at Muscatine, Iowa.
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Benham
Muscatine
B. C. Benham
League of Iowa Municipalities
Spirit Lake
Iowa
Mulch
McNutt
Water Works Board
Board of Electric Light Trustees
Old Water Works Board
Electric Light Board
Mississippi Levee
Mississippi River