Show COMPETITORS LOSE OUT nUT Utah Ut Power Light Gets Street Li Lighting kiting Contract The Street Lighting L compan company company com com- pan pany and Utah Gas Coke company compan lost their tl fight ht for tor a share of oC the city's business when the cil city commission decided decided de de- yesterday to enter Into a new contract with the Utah Power Light company compan for Cor lighting the streets of tho the entire city The decision was reached when C C. E Groesbeck vice president and general manager of oC the Utah Power Light t company compan tol told the tho commission that Jf if any portion of oC the lighting business were given to the gas bas company the electric company compan would j I cease cense 1 giving I II tho city the free freo electricity pr provided for In its franchise in consideration of its being given all the city business R. R nV W. W Bingham representative of ot I the tho company appeared l be before before before be- be fore the commission lon and denounced tho the franchise held b by the Utah Power Light company declaring that It operates op operates operates op- op to shut out competition of oC any kind What tree free service the tho city gets he said sald costs the Utah Ut Power Light company practically nothing The new contract will run for three years ears beginning January 1 1917 It will not prevent the gas company from bidding on private lighting extensions The contract Is to be drawn at onto by the city legal department |