| Show SUIT IS BROUGHT AT TONOPAH TO COMPEL POWER COMPANY TO TOTE FAIR complaint against penalizing private electric power plants with stand by tolls to be paid to the fornia power company has been filed with the public service commission of nevada by letson balliet mining engineer and specialist on engineering and industrial economics for and in behalf of all power users in in southern nevada balliett Bal liets complaint sets out that the tonopah extension mining company built a large diesel engine electric power plant at a cost of over and capable of making horsepower in order to be able to handle its mine requirements particularly its pumps the nevada california power company is a distributing subsidiary of the southern sierra power company of california the transmission line crosses the white mountains through a region known to have occasional and severe storms which cause frequent interruption of service this condition forced the tonopah extension to build its own plant I 1 and thereafter it must use one or the other source of power as the standby stand by power the tonopah extension elected to use its diesel plant as the regular source of supply and wanted the nevada california power company to furnish a part of the power and be connected in order that the utility companas comp anys power might 6 be available in event the diesels had to be repaired this the utility company refused to do without compensation and managed to induce the public service commission to penalize the tono pah extension with a annual standby stand by charge to be pai paid d to the utility corporation this the tonopah extension refused to pay and has put in duplicate engines to standby itself leaving the ruling as a trap baited and set which if the tonopah extension ever does need to use the power for a single hour obligates the mine to pay to the power company for eighteen months the mining company has not needed the utility company and probably never will but on two occasions the utility company has had to ask the mining company to save their customers from drowning out the mining companas comp anys plant has become a standby stand by for the utility company and has twice saved the seven other deep mines served by the utility company from drowning out and saved per year in power bills that continue to be paid to the utility corporation these mines would never pump out if once drowned out knowing they might face the same condition again with another power failure balliet for and on behalf of all mines pumping water and for the good of southern nevada development where other mines wish to sink below the water level asks the public service commission to either force the power company to maintain a competent standby stand by service in nevada or to remove the trap set for the tonopah extension mining company and in consideration for the power company standing by the mining company that the mining company stand by the power companas comp anys customers in emergencies which it has signified its willingness to do this is is a protection to millions of dollars of 01 money invested in deep mining and will permit other mines to sink into the deep ores with a knowledge that their pumps will be served at all times if balliet wins his contentions the tonopah extension gains its insurance of steady operation the buckeye bel mont goldfield deep mines manhattan consolidated amal amalgamated 9 abated and white caps and the tybo mines operated by the Bunke rhill and sullivan and alaska treadwell people will be assured of steady power and safety from drowning the red hills florence operating through the buckeye no 1 shaft will be protected by the buckeye pumps these mines now pay about annual bills aad and with this service further development will be justified and the power bills in another another year will be more than to the power company which set and baited the trap according to balliet |
