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Show Rate Rehearing May Be Granted RICHFIELD, Utah. Fob. 17. Attorney B. K. Hoffmann returned Thursday evening from Salt Lake City where he attended a meeting of the Public Utilities commission in which the petition submitted by the Farm Bureau of Sevier County and Gunnison for a rehearing in the Tel-luride Tel-luride rate case was argued. Mr. Hoffman reports his impression was that the commission will grant the request of the petitioners. The farmers took exception to the Public Utilities decision granting permission to the Telluride Power Co. to raise the rates for electric light and power, and in a meeting of the Sevier County Farm Bureau held several weeks ago the farmers decided to petition for a rehearing of the case. The Farm Bureau of Gunnison joined hands with ' our farmers and after the Fillmore users of power and electricity had been informed that rates in Fillmore will be raised also to coniform with the rates in other places served by the Telluride Power company, they, too, wanted the Utilitiees commission to rehear the case. The petitions were argued Wednesday, Feb. 8, Attys. E. E. Hoffmann and H. N. Hayes appearing ap-pearing for the Farm Bureaus of Sevier Se-vier county and Gunnison, attorney Grover Giles, for the electricity users us-ers of Fillmore, and attorney H. R. Waldo representing the Telluride Power Co. All three commissioners, Chairman Haywood and Members Greenwood and Stoutmour were present. Mr. Giles argument for the rehearing re-hearing was that citizens of Fillmore Fill-more were never informed of the intention of the Telluride Co. to raise the rates and were never heard so that they new are entitled to the hearing. The arguments by attorneys Hoffman and Hayes were about" the same as leid down in the petition, published in The Reaper of January 2'6. Commissioner Warren Stoutnour was opposing the statements state-ments made in the petition, and attorney at-torney Waldo, of the Power Co., asked that the new hearing be not granted, stating that the people served by the company "won't listen to reason and The Reaper is just as unreasonable and published only a one-sided resume of the commission's decision." The commission, after hearing the arguments, took the matter under advisement and a decision either granting or denying a rehearing may oe expected any day. |