[164] Tacoma Gas and Electric Light Co. v. Tacoma, 14 Wash.
[165] The employment of the special fund device for municipal ownership purposes has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Washington. See Winston v. Spokane, 12 Wash. 524, and Faulkner v. Seattle, 19 Wash. 320.
[166] Const., Art. I, sec. 2 and Art. II, sec. 1.
[167] Abstract of the Twelfth Census, p. 133.
[168] Constitution of Colorado, Art. X, Sec. 3.
[169] These figures concerning municipally owned waterworks as well as those in the following paragraph relating to electric light plants, are based on the data contained in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor on Water, Gas and Electric Light Plants.
[170] Water, Gas and Electric Light Plants, 1899.
[171] Abstract of the Twelfth Census, p. 133.
[172] Ibid, p. 28.
[173] Cooley, Constitutional Limitations, 6th ed., p. 282, n.