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Show City Commissioners P. Fusion Planned by Corporation. GET RATE REDUCTld Contract Will Save a La Sum to Consumers 0f Electricity. i Ordinances effecting tha traMW franchises of the Utah Light & j.'. company and the Merchant,' L. Power company to the new Utah Traction company were passes b-city b-city commission last night by & four to one. They become effectived ary 1. Commissioner Henry w voted in the negative because hi. leagues declined to Insert a dame a the city the right to purchase at! erato the property of the corananv ' time after five years. L""Jpanj , Commissioner YV. H SbM.., to have stricken out a pr"E 1 ' the company the right to' S I ' s.sn its franchises. He was Mr. Lawrence, but the other li.. , m.ssioners voted against the motion !! Amendments gramlne material t t ons in the rates for electric ourr . this city and concessions to them.' ' pality worth nearly $27.U(J0 a vtl-the vtl-the principal features of the frerr' T as they now stand. For many n-i,, 1 commission and company represents have been in conference over Uie'dM of tho deal, which have dow bewT, tied to the satisfaction of both siia i $100,000 Is Saved. j Tho rate reductions alone win saving of more than ?U'0,OW , veaii users of electric current in Pali u F'or the average resident using Ina descent lamps In his home the rejii tion will be. 10 per cent. For W users it will be as high as To per c with the average reduction aho.it i-f per cent. Current for manufacturing a poses will he reduced to a point '3 rates will compare favorably vith tai of almost any city of this 'size. Ert" user of electricity in the city U btf, fited bv the reductions. Y They were obtained after mor.lhj negotiation between Mayor Samuel u Park and the company. Private arc lamps are given manVl diictlons, varying according to Ihe m bcr of hours they are used. ' The city as a immiolpality If get ' free 400.000 kilowatt hours Par ua which is 'JO.OOO more than at present is considered sufficient to light ah : city's buildings, including the new pfl and health department building, foH5l -the T. M. C. A. The city also l! gi 126-horsepower energy for use In pumping operations and another horsepower at a nominal price ol 1 ( ;' per kilowatt hour for twenty-four ht ,t a day. These power concessions -provide the city with ample rurrtr.t all Its purposes as a municipality. The companv alo agrees to citv one-fourth of 1 per cent of Its a earnings dprived from the Bale of a-tricity a-tricity for lighting purposes. FlrjreJI the present earnings, this ill amosx." more than $1600 a year. This p-r . will prevail until 1937, and for th! mainder of the life of the far. which runs to 1535, the percentage :! paid the city will be one half o. 1 :. cent. May Audit Books. A clause Is also included callm; readjustment of rates with farther,'-ductions farther,'-ductions In the future in case the M ,; of the company's business eo Hbm, or new inventions for the imjij.-. of electricity are discovered, as to r , such reductions justifiable. U sen . event a committee consisting o. mi pert engaged by the city, one b-company b-company and a third chosen by .l . shall audit the company s book i in, ( termlne the new rates. But " I" n of such committee shall erase in .. a state public utility commission I . ated. and It shall have no right t . a readjustment within four and l -: vears from the present tune. - In connection with the franrtW! in consideration of them, the -agreed last night, at the sww.j YV. H. Shearman. cemml;'. ; enter Into a contract with he bv it shall be liable to the damages done to '""V Jtr , 'J ,i ; means of electrolysis. hr" , of electric currents escaping ftw. :: bonded street railway tracks ' ground and onto the water rtsiM to allow the city electrician tt . of company meters when necesr. |