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Show 62 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT It will be noticed that a favorable vote on proposition No. 1 would authorize a subscription for 50,000 shares of the capital stock of the Provo River Water Users Association in the event that amount might be available to subscription. The 1928- 29 recommendation of the Water Advisory Board proposed 40,000 and the reports made by Alvord, Burdick & Howson and by City Engineer Beers recommended 44,000. In putting the amount to be authorized at 50,000 the Board of Directors of the District had in mind the possibility ? 2. Cover page of the informative pamphlet issued in the 193? special water election. that no other large scale water project might hereafter be constructed and that it would be better to have relatively complete freedom of action, and at the same time, if any error of judgment should be made, it would be better that it be on the side of an oversubscription rather than one which might turn out to be inadequate. TAXPAYERS INFORMED OF PURPOSE AND EFFECT OF ELECTION The Board of Directors of the District were of the opinion that their obligation to the public would not be satisfied by a mere submission of the proposals but that the taxpayers were entitled to be furnished with all possible information, both because of the importance of the matter submitted to them and in order that they might fully comprehend the nature and extent of both the benefits and the burdens they were called upon to assume or decline. With these things in mind the Board determined upon a campaign of education and, while they did not urge action either for or against either of the propositions, they let be known that it was their well- considered and mature judgment that the interests of this community required an affirmative vote. Accordingly, they caused to be distributed thousands of informative pamphlets; billboard advertising was resorted to: newspaper advertisements were published: motion picture trailers were used; and hundreds of speeches were made to every service and civic club of the city and at many public gatherings. |
