Show GAS s MERGED MER ED INTO ONE ONI Utah Gas and Coke Concern Takes Over Business of Utah Light and Railway NO INCREASE IN PRICES Monopoly Will Not A Affect the Present Rate Says Manager Manager Man Man- ager Ross OSSI oss Alter After almost two tio years cars of competition tion thom the tho two concerns supplying gas gasto gasto gasto to consumers In Salt I Lake aIe have combined com coin blued and the Utah Gas and Col Coke c company will now have nave a monopoly Inthe in the lime local Hel Held A deal was closed yesterday yes yes- cs tenia whereby cb time the gas business of tIme the Utah Ti Light hl t and Halh Hallway company Is taken u or by bv the tIme Utah ClaIm Gas antI and Coke Colw company compan General Manager el J r T Charles floss nos of the tue gas IlS company last IaH night said that although tho time Utah Gas and amI Colic Coke would control the time gas as output In fn Sail Salt Lake Laico there would be he no ho raise also in iii Ices pi-Ices at present lie intimated however u that thal thieve there may amy be bc n a raise In iii th time the fu future Cu- Cu ture tut ui-c ui b by an aim amendment to his Imis franchise franchise fran fran- chise but even en then time tho price of or gas gasHI will HI bej be below that origInally paid to time the Utah h Light and Railway Hallway company com corn pany paim which controlled the product and far below the time co cost t of gas Sas in Denver Den ver vcr and other places where fuel Is cheaper than In iii Salt SaIL Lake ko Abandon J old Plant The Time transfer o of till tic gas as properties of the time Utah Light and amid Railway company com coin l pany any becomes operative on J June Julie ne 10 an and all consumers of or gas cas furnished by that lint company compan will be he supplied from Crom the time mains of the tho new mme company Time The Theold old olmi plant jdant near the Simon Short Line depot will be he abandoned and amid all of the lie gasu gas g-as u ill be e manufactured at the time new ne coni- coni p n tany's tanys s plant tilt on Oil First South between Ninth Tenth West cst streets The Time deal for the time transfer of time the old gas goas business was negotiated d by George A. A Snow vice president and J. J Charles Ross floss general manager of the time Utah Gas a w art I Coke Cole company and amid President V b ii II Bancroft and Vice President Parley Pailey 1 L L. Williams of the Utah Light and amid Hallway a company In a statement Issued It by General Manager floss Boss last Jast night appears the lime I following 0 1 1 owl The TIme Utah LI Light ht and amid Hallway company's company's com corn pany's plant of the time old l type pe and amid system tem tm em of mains were Installed mann many years ears ago o and amid through use ue and a age e have become so Impaired as to ma make e ethem them to present pre day service with iti the time great advancement ad in Jim machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery and the tho man mali many novel hovel appliances for the lime use and amid application of gas The consolidation of or the time gas sas Interests In Interests Interests In- In will obviate ob the nece necessity City o of time the two companies tearing up the time city's streets at different times for the time purpose of or making main maui extensions Tho TImo rho plant of or tho lie Utah lItah Gas Gas' rind Coke company i Is onh our well we'll be bc proud of and to who arc are unfamiliar with Its magnitude a visit to time the plant should be most interest interest- Ins ing That stick Mich an In Institution exists here is due lluc to tu time the enterprise of Geo Oco of the time com com- A. A Snow vice Ice president ent o and anti the operation co-operation o of Granger er or Farwell the time Chicago banker and associated a with him in a a. fi- fi financial fi financial others r way war Will m Ho lIt No Xu Tho rhe Utah LI Light ht had hall about 1000 gas meters In operation and amid while at one omme onetime time thins the entire field was covered by of competing com corn that company the time arrival al o a concern and the cutting cutting- of lowered the old company's compans revenue rev rev- prices until tho time gas as business s was har hardly ly lya branch bi-anch of or the time Harriman a a. paying ln old to from front time the tem tom In the lie change the tho new service it is said there willbe willbe will willbe be no interruption but the time old pipes and amid mains will be supplanted with new ones by the time The franchise granted gas council to the time Utah It Light ht and city b 1 the time Railway company compan Is taken talen over o by Utah Cas Gas and ColiC Coke company but th time the system steam will be operated fully Cully under un un- new ne tier der tho time terms of time tho granted time the Utah Ulah Gas and Colic Coke company in 1 1 nG 10 Following the time granting grant grant- construction of of that franchise lug ing o time the new liCY plant was vas begun In Jui July 1906 and the system was In operation operation opera opera- tion by Au August 1 itlO 1007 07 Under time the terms company js Is franchise tho new that of more inure than titan 3 1 1 O not allowed allo to t change net per and cubic feet for the lie fir first t two thousand and 10 l net per thousand for COl all over oyer 2000 feet cot used ll allows allow For fuel Cuel gas the franchise the company comp to charge 00 O cents per st t 2000 cubic feet thousand for or the time urs 70 0 80 SO cents for fOl the next anti and cubic feet cents for Cor all over o The rhe price chur charged ed by hy the time Utah LIght hl and amid Railway company up UI to the time lime of its properties were were- of hf J the time transfer o Illuminating gas as 60 net per co combination illuminating thousand and fuel gas 11 per thousand and for Cor fuel Cuel gas 1 26 6 per |