Show AND FIRMS PROTEST METER CHARGE Gas Company Tanager Manager Cites Greater Freight Rates Oil Costs v d and Coal T Liabilities of the Utah Gas Ii fc Coke company aJ aggregate regato a a. total of I according to statements made b by General Manager George GeorgI 11 II WareIng Ware Ware- ar Ing lug before the state public utilities commission hearing on Its application to Increase gas nR rates yesterday After ACter listening to testimony of wit witnesses It j nesses flosses the tho commission slon continued the tho Inquiry until 1 10 IJ o'clock this morning ItIs It ItIs itis Is assumed lie tho hearing will conclude toda today and that an order from tho the commission com corn mission will hu ho Issued shortly giving ln 1 Its decision lon The gas aB company asks for permission to Install its proposed ready read v to serve e a additional meter charge chan of twenty five cents per month to each gas ag consumer l I 1 HC Statements of or General Manager aroln were to the effect that the compan company's s liabilities were greater than as assets Ho Ito stated that no dl dividends had been paid this year Instead he said script had been given Instead d of the dividends which are arc paid quarterly A total of Is In the time treasury o of tho the company companas as the time fund paid In de deposits deposits do- do posits by gas a consumers Tho The cas rias company Is Indebted to a total of to he American Public Utilities Utilities ties company for loans on improve e improvements ments and other work declared Manager Manager Man Ian ager Is nt the common stock of oC your known nl water company commonly as I was asked Manager er during the hearing yesterday afternoon No Xo this stock tOk should bo ho considered as ag participating In the tangible re resources resources resources re- re sources of or the thc company compan he answered Among City Attorn Attorney W. W H. H Folland entered a protest before the tho commission on behalf of or the tho city Other protests wore WAre made by the Ladles Ladies I. I Literary It era 11 club climb represented iv v T. T 1 D Walton alton by 11 George J. J Knapp represented in a submitted written brief tHle and b by Iy runny many citizens and ami firms In a petition signers of which Include Mrs Irs C C. T. T McDaniel Utah cafe D. D Carlos allos Kimball B B. Snyder Oliver R. R Meredith CIl City Lunch S r K E. Hill Hm Jr Mrs Irs Leo Benton S. S B B. Tuttle O. O C C. Davis Lavis W V. II 11 11 Alder AIder J. J W. W Haley J J. J H. H R. R Franklin company compan J J. Pollard R. R J. J L. L Shannon Mrs Irs Alice Hubel C. C II H. Ensign Sparey company compan Harts Hart's Lunch Ray c Harvey Wyatt att W v Jones Jonel and thirty four others it was wn claimed chimed variously by these Protestants that the proposed additional addition additIon- al char charge e of ur twenty-five twenty cents a month is not proper equitable or fair that it discriminates discriminateD against the small consumer that the present rates for forgas forgas gas are as high h as could be reasonably expected that the raising of oC prices of or necessities is iR sometimes carried to excess excess ex ex- cess and that the lie move n-move is an attempt on the part of or the company compan to get gel something for r nothing Represented b by General Manager Geor George c H. H an and Attorney F F. S Richards the company compan claims that the additional charge is I necessary to enable on- on able the corp corporation to mo meet t Increased operation charges es b by reason of oC higher freight rates greater reter coal cost higher wages W and amid prices of oil used in gas S making totaling about abou t annually as w well as other heavier ler In Incidentals In- In which bring operation coatH to an even en greater increase in yearly a aggregate re ate 0 |