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Show RATE DECISION Hi) GIVEN Industrial Commission Denies Petitions of Larqe Contract Holders SALT LAKE, Nov. 11. The pubU0 utilities commission In denying ih pe-tltlona, pe-tltlona, of thirty-three of the inrser customor.v of the I'tah Power & I-ikMi company, who hold special contracts' for power service at rates differing from the schedule on Which POWI is furnished to the rfnerai public, yesterday yes-terday took oecaslon to make It a petition pe-tition on the matter more definite Th" Tetitlona were for rchcariiiKs in each case The denial leaves Ihe way open In regular procedure for appeal in the supreme court of the state, or In course of time to the supreme eourt of the United States. Certain infringement on constitutional rights are alleged v hlch would permit of the eases being taken to the I'nlted tSates supreme ,.oort even In cases where ihe corporations corpora-tions affected are I'tuh orpor'um-i The original order of the commission placer the service rendered to all the special contract holder." on the schedule sched-ule r.ittiK basis. The n pun of t no commission issued yesterday, in ordering order-ing denied the petitions for rehearing, asserts thai the original or.lei and report re-port cover sufficiently the oesor.s raised In ih' petition, but "In case there should be any doubt as to Uv position of the cornmigSlon on the points raised the commission wishes to make distinct record that it found the facts to be: "ITiat the raii-s set forth In the j.e-;cial j.e-;cial contracts under eonslderat Ion. wherein 'he regular schedules appllc I able to like sen lee. ar dis rimina torv and preferVniial. 'That the ont inuance In eft' i of these special discriminatory contract rates places nn undue burden upon jthat part of the power consuming pub-! jllc that does not enjoy said speciaJ i contract rates. Thai the published' and filed schedules sched-ules and tariffs of the power company now on file with this commission purport pur-port to be. ;ind by their terms are. applicable ap-plicable to the service rendered to the holders of the spoclal contracts and are the schedules whlcu are open to and actually used by the public generally gener-ally for similar ser Ice, and unless and until changed, amended, superseded, O ao nulled b this commission should b applied lo all service to which !, their terms they are applicable' The scheduled rates referred to are the BUbJeel Of another action still pending pend-ing before the commission for decision, having been heard In conjunction with the special contract eases This CA8G Ih an application by the power company com-pany for sufficient Increase 'n Its present pres-ent power rtis to furnish iboui J.-iHiii.iliiii J.-iHiii.iliiii addition, i! revenue in that which h former!) received The decision deci-sion of the commission Lii the special contract cases raised th" annual revenue reve-nue of the power company by 11,080,- ooo approximately! ''.unless and until" the decision may le upset by the courts. The rate hearing still pending involves in-volves the question of the valuation of the power company on which returns lent ached u lea Whether the commission jand the amount of the return. It also (involves the Inter-relation of lh pn s lent schedules. Whther the commission ! a Hows any increase above tin- prest nt . schedules or not, It is thought entirely probable that before finally setting the case the commission will order a physical physi-cal valuation of the plant Of the pow - or company. |