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Show !, DEFENDS UTAH I S LIGHT COMPANY Manager Campbell Is ;' I Before Council. ; i Gives the Corporation Side y j of Controversy With 1 1 Municipality. 1 i ,'1 Improvement Committee of Council J jJJ Decides to Hold Executive Sos- , (itj sion nnd Amend Its Eoport. t ' J;!, wjr AXAGKR K. S. CAMPBELL of I f fw the Utah Light and Railway J i I 1 company appeared before the 1 j J Improvement committee oC the J i City Council last night and presented f ' ji ; tnc company's side on the lighting quec- i t i , t Hon. The manager took decided cx- ; , s ception to the greater part of the report J ' ' II- submitted by the. Improvement commit- , I'! tee to the Council, and in a written ' 1 1 statement, which he asked to have re- I j. I ' corded on the minutes of the Council, ' J,. J answered the charges of inefficiency and .' 'jjj dereliction that were therein contained. J Jl 'j chairman Martin admitted that the rc- lf( . IT port made by O. H. Skidmore. the i i ' electrical expert employed by the city 4 ' to test the voltago and meters of the b j 1 ' j lighting company, did not justify all of T ' Jj the statements made in the- committee L , h report, and that some of his information j ( . ! derived from other sources was not au- V, , thentic. It was decided that the com- j pli mittee should hold an executive session it , before the next meeting of the Council 1 ij' and amend the report ; ' J, Standard Service, He Says, h V,: It was stated by Mr. Campbell that U i j both the street lighting and incan- n descent service in Salt Lake City i ' :' was up to the standard, and that the ' cost for the arc service was lesj than if . '. in 1500 other cities of the United States. I " Salt Lake City, he stated, was obtaining 33 1-3 per cent more hours" service from if t each arc lamp per annum than Is served ) , In 1500 other cities. The charge for the incandescent service, it was maintained, : ; was not higher than the average .paid 'i i , throughout the country, and It was g added that the company was charging a only 15 cents for each K, W. hour, while ' under its franchise It could charge ft-., 't tci nnnta He. olsn enlrl Ihnt th( lrl.n Ijf i , that prices were cheaper in cities where j municipal ownership of lighting pre- ' vailed than in metered cities was not 1 !', exactly correct, and explained that 3 ji, where the residents pay $11 a month for ii'jlj three lights their bills run higher than 1 j! '( where they pay for the exact amount I J I of energy consumed as denoted by the ' .1 , ill meters. This, he said, was because un- i' , ,j f der the unmetered service they must i l y pay for every light, while under the ') metered service, no matter what the i ' ' 'I number of lights may be, they paid for j the actual electrical energy consumed, r!'! Thinks City Is to Blame. ' 'it 1 i ,i j In regard to the statement made by j i Mr. Skidmore that the arc lights were , - i K not of the most Improved standard. Mr. J ll),J.. jh, ' Campbell said that he realized that, but i 1 1 4i went on to say that when the company L 'Hi ''ad isked permission to replace all the fi j J present arcs with the Improved ones the 1 ' ! t' f city refused to grant the request. This ! r was admitted by old members of the j l( j committee. The manager explained that ' I one '"imp gives as much light, In r .( , , 5 candle power, as the other, but that the ' , L ! ' i Improved arc gives better diffusion. The p j1 .' a 470 arc lamps in Salt Lake, he declared, 11' J I i i were giving as good light as any other fT, ; ij 'ft. 470 arc in the United States. For its h t) t i. ,; franchise privileges the company, he . 1U ' . ' i, said, was furnishing the city with 320,- ir J ' 000 "worth of electrical energ-y each year R f :I free. It h ' H The publicity given to the report of ' I ' j I r the committee, said Mr. Campbell, had h , 1, j jf a tendency to frighten the bondholders Jr , "; ,! I H of the company, while the company at j 1 i If the present time was expending in ex- r ,; cess of one million dollars In Improving i( ' j the plant. With the new generators re- , j. i f cently Installed and being Installed at Ml i M tne present time on Bear river, the IX k .1 fj power of the company, he said, would I'.f it ', lie. Increased 3000 kilo watts over lant jj , it year, and not 740 K. TV's, as stated In I I t ' 5 the report of the committee. In all fair- I J ' . , ness to the company and its patrons, h I jV asked that the report be amended, and I I J ,l 'i 'said that the offices and records of the y i ' company were open to Inspection b' thc- I? ' 1 n members of the Council. |