Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-01 | Page 11 | People's Corner

r PEOPLES PEOPLE'S PEOPLES PEOPLE'S t CORNER J p Objects to Rate I For Electric Light Editor The Telegram I r read ad with Interest the letter by GIfford Pinchot in your issue o of Sunday of last week I remember reading a a. news item Hem HemIn in let The Telegram some five or six sis years ears ears ago that the town of ot Green River Utah had asked the commission for far permission to cu cut ut its rates from 3 cents to 1 2 1 cents cent per kwh for electric current anc arid and the commission had REFUSED i it permission to do so To have granted th that t petition would have established the belief belie in the public mind that the commission commission com corn mission knows that electric current current current cur cur- rent can be produced and sOld at a profit of at 1 2 1 cents per kilowatt And that would have caused a a. de demand demand tie tie- mand for a a. reduction in the rates of the power and light company To bring about a reduction in rates by that pet infant industry would be robbing the poor widows dud and orphans Who orphanS who live lIe in Pittsburg Pitts burg I do not know what it costs to produce electric current but I have lived in mining towns in Colorado that were lighted from the mine light plant plant and and the street lights were burned day day and and night The mine officials said It cost less to let them thorn burn all aU d day y than t to replace re replace replace re- re place the light globes destroyed by bythe bythe bythe the thrust of the current when Itis it Jt itis is turned on The actual cost of ot production I therefore must be almost nothing and the 9 cents per kilowatt we pay Is for the machinery installation Since the Almighty furnishes the water that makes the Juice free to the company We e do not mind paying the light company for its use of machinery to tomake tomake tomake make current for u but us-but but to buy the tho machinery outright every year and and anc year jear ear after year ear and never get title to it Is what gets our nanny A NIGHT WORKER I IN THE R. R R. R YARDS