Show efforts being made to force lower power rates 0 alleging that the power rates charged by the utah power light company are arbitrary excessive and unjust a petition was submitted to the public utilities commission this week by the utah manufacture ers association the ogden chamber of commerce and the weber county commissioners ers requesting a new hearing on an the rates rules and regulations ot of the company the petition states that the rates upon which the defendant is basing the charges it is exacting from the complainants and others tor for electrical power and energy sup plied them are unreasonable unjust and excessive as a whole and are greater than the service rendered as well as greater than the reason able cost to the defendant tor for furnishing such service and are pro and will wid produce a greater revenue and profit to the defendant than the defendant requires or I 1 is 11 entitled to receive upon the value of its plant it is also alleged that the rates are higher than those tor for similar service in adjoining states two or three hundred users of power have signed the petition tor for the reopening of the case and it Is thought that such a hearing can re suit sult in but one thing lower power charges throughout utah the present rates of the power company were granted by the public ut utilities little s commission at the peak ot of high prices resulting from the war and are not in keeping with existing con editions |