Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 22 | Phone [Illegible] Time Extended

PRIEIil TlEfTEIl Mountain States Comp Hearing Is Fixed for I January 6. Public Utilities CommiMio,, Plans Using Survey aj ' Rate Basis. ! ! I Alleg.ng .hat it will be iupcsibuj I complete the valuation of the Monnts" States Telephone and Telegraph tot puny in the time designated bv J .-.-a;- public utilities commission t'liuance o a month was asked TJ?' day ,.v the company at a htttnt tore the commission. The contiii! was granl.-rl and the case set for I ing on January 6. The valuation was requested br a, ! commission in order that a deiu might be made as to the petition! Ine company to be allowed to eontiaa j the present installation sen-ice eta ; and the present rates, which were h ; tablished under federal control If, after the hearing in Januarr commission finds that the smil charge and the new rates are not j I the company will be required to refu j all such charges made after Deeeiin 1, 1919, according to an order is erpectod to be issued today, ! Expansion Planned. Reasons for the continuance of ; i present rates were advanced before t commission yesterday by Milton Sai of Denver, who is the 'genera! com for the company. He said there be practically a doubling of the te phone facilities in Salt Lake rit the next five vears. More thai: 000,100 is included in the uJ planued for Salt Lake in that peri he declared. This will not include placements and the charges that I madVi against depreciations, he saii i . The approximate book value of t telephone plant at present, he i plained, was $2,000,000, and if Cft 000 more were spent the plant m be practically doubled. : I Many Protests Filed. Protestants against the graioii I the company's petition were repn j ed bv Riehard Hartley, eountv at -ney: Y. K. Folland, city attorner.i D. W. Moffat, city attorney for -! ray. Many protests are filed witfcj - commission against the present n i and against the servicv. Among ! I are letters from the Bamberger U ! trie Railway company, the Salt U '-" i Union Stockyards, the Salt Late Lt : stock Commission company, the (Mi , ! Pr.cking company and many priti ! citizens, who all protest that pnl -rates are. working a hardship.