Show COMMERCIAL CLUB RECOMMENDS RAISE IN RATES FOR GAS Recommendation that the Utah Gas and Coke company's petition to the public utilities s commission lon for Cor an nn Increase in rates be granted is made In the report of or the special committee appointed b by the Salt Lake Commercial club to investigate Investigate gate ate the matter The committee which Is composed composed com corn com posed of or M. M A A. A K Keyser er C. C E. E Murphy Mur- Mur ur- ur phy and P. P B. B Garoutte declares declare that it went Into the accounts of or orthe the company compan eT very thoroughly The report praises the frankness rankness with which Manager George H. H Waring 1 showed them the thc company's compans books an and declares emphatically that the company campan should be granted an increase in the price of or gas The committee says the thc report went over the pa pay roll of or the gas company and found that it is not paying too high prices for Cor labor under present circumstances Manager Manager Man Ian ager Waring assured the committee commit commit- tee that none of or the officers of or the company compan IK Its drawing a n. salary The high r price of or coal is 18 cited as the principal explanation for lor the Immense increase in tho the cost of or manufacturing ga gas I TI I rge quantities quantities quantities ties of ot coal must be purchased by bythe bythe the company constantly The Tho report closes with the r recommendation rec rec- c- c that the increase in rates be granted as a war ar emergency emergency emer emer- gency measure when the company's company's com corn pany's petition to the public utilities utilities ties commission comes up for tor hearing May 14 H. |