Show FIRE LOSSES IN UTAH agdens lire protection has been the subject of criticism by the thes of the insurance companies doing business in the state and ouch has been accompanied by a veiled tin eat to increase the insurance rates the faultfinding fault finding may have been inspired by a desire to silence any complaint which might bo mad against the high rate of insurance that ogden and other utah cities ate paying a higher ralo cf insurance than they should pay is shown by the report of the alre business 0 the pacific for 1004 just issued by the coast review fire insurance chart while the anro losses in other pacific states have averaged 40 per cent of the premiums paid idaho lodies being 81 per cent utah buffered a loss of only per cent utah paid in premiums to the anro insurance companies in 1904 the sum of but the losses sustained totaled less than had the property owner of tah state mutually assumed the risks in that year their insurance would have cost them only one sixth of what they paid or had they assessed themselves idaho paid in premiums or on tho basis of the present rate of insurance su rance they would havo accumulated a reserve fund of almost half a million dollars the exact figures are only more than utah but the firo losses were or nearly five times greater than tho losses in thin state with this disclosure before dawe wonder how the insurance people could have been so brazen aa to face the people of ogden and warn theli that insurance rates might bo advanced |