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Show POWER COMPANIES IN IDAHO AT WAR. Boise. Idaho, Dec. 28 Pocatello promises to become the center of another an-other electric power war to be staged in the southern part of this state with the Southern Idaho Water Power company com-pany on one side seeking to shut out the Beaver River Power company from the Gate city field on the other slde, for the southern Idaho corporation corpora-tion yesterday filed a complaint with the public utilities commission of this ttate asking that the latter company be not granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity as required by law before it can enter and proceed pro-ceed with construction work in a city in Idaho. The Southern Idaho Water Power company, the Kuhn, formerly the Brady, electrical enterprice, is now in control of the Pocatello field, furnishing furn-ishing electric power to consumers there The Beaver River Power company com-pany is now engaged constructing power lines and building a power Plant to furnish the same territory with electrical energy'- The souther Idnho company alleges in its con plaint that it is now and can contlnu in the future to furnish the consun c-rs of electricity at Pocatello with a' the electrical energy that Is or ma be required, and there i- therefore n necessity for competition It Is also alleged that the Beave River company secured a "pretended ordinance or franchise from the clt; council of Pocatello on May 5, 191.1 which that company accepted. Thl: franchise requires that a bond be giv en as evidence of good faith for per f formance of construction work .mi I that the constitution work shall ht st.irted within six months after tin granting of the franchise A cashier's certificate for $1000 was presented tc flic mavor of Pocatello by the Beaver River Power company on August of this year, but work, it is alleged, to construct the power lines, etc., way not commenced until November 25 of the nrr-sent vpar The Southern Idnho Water Power company alleges, therefore, that the Beaver River company did not comply com-ply with the terms of the "protended' Ordinance within the specified time and further that It has not secured from the public utilities commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity permitting It to proceed with its work. |