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Show BilliH A GAS B'LL FR0M I'lJM 'SALT LAKE. iiijUiw l kae City consumers of gaa II ' III have a rato 20 per cent lower than that granted to tho people of Ogden under tho fifty-year franchiBo given to the "Utah. Power & Light company. Yet we are told that tho franchise was granted because the gas rates wore to be made highly favorable to tho Ogden consumers. i 1 There Is something wrong with the brain coIIb of our mayor and commissioners, commis-sioners, or tho gentlemen are laboring labor-ing under a hypnotic spell, superinduced superin-duced by wo know not what. A friend has Bent us tho following gas bill from Salt Lake, dated September Sep-tember 1, 1915: "Utah Gas & Coke Company Gas UBed la August, 30 cents j.JeHfcJ.O-per cent, if pald-bofore- September 10, 27 cents." On the back of-tho-blll-lB-this. statement: state-ment: PRICE OF GAS. For lighting, cooking, water-heating. hou8o-hoating, ironing and all other purposes when used by any one customer cus-tomer through any one meter in any one month. First 2,000 cubic feet $1.00 per thousand Next 20,000 cubic feet 90 per thousand All" over 22,000 cubic feet . . i , 80 per thousand If payment of bill be made on or before the tenth of tho month following follow-ing the motor reading, the price is: First 2000 cubic feet 90 centa per thousand Next 20,000 cubic feet 80 cents per thousand Aliover 22,000 cubic feot ,...70 cents per thousand THERE IS NO UNTMU MONTHLY MONTH-LY CHARGE ON GAS FOR DOMESTIC DOMES-TIC USE. For the first 2000 cubic feet, the charge, as fixed in the new Ogden franchise, is $1.25 per thousand; in Salt Lake it Is $1. For the next 20,000 cubic feet, the charge, as fixed In the now Ogden franchise, is $1 per thousand, in Salt Lake It is 90 cents. The lowest price bore is SI por thousand. Tho mini mum in Salt Lake is 70 cents per thousand, with, a ten per cent discount, dis-count, which reduces tho price to 63 cents In the Ogden franchise, tho minimum mini-mum charge for gas for domostlc use is 50 conts por month. Any one with a gns rango in his home muBt pay at least 50 cents each month, even though ho uses no gas. In Salt Lake only tho gas actually consumed is paid for, and that is why the gas bill quotod above was but 27 conts, after the discount was figured. Thus wo see that Ogden's gas prices are not only extremely high, being 25 per cent above the Salt Lake charges, but gas that Is not consumed con-sumed is charged for and the small consumers thus doubly taxed. Still wo are told the fifty-year gas franchise was framed and passed because be-cause the gas trust was "awfully good to Ogden." The old woman who said that, though her old man beat her, he was awfully good to her, was as submissive submis-sive to mistreatment as the city commissioners com-missioners expect the gas consumers of Ogden to be. s |