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Show I STREET CAR FARE. Ogden's street car system continues to operate on five-cent lares, with no charge made for transfers, while nearly ever other; traction company in the country, carrying city passenpers, is re-j cert mc higher compensal ion. On Wednesday the public utilities commission of Utah, after a! hearing extending over a long period, granted the '"tab Light & Traction company of Salt Lake the npiit to exact a seven-cent fare, beginning Saturd i The Salt Lake street cars have been operating oil a six-cent basit and Ogdenites for a year past have come home from tbe capital, capi-tal, after each visit, with pennj change. The traction Company requested an eight -cent tare By comparison. Ogdcn is most fortunate The local street ear company is not making a profit, in fact, is not able to ja interest on its bonds, but the policy of holdinpi to a five-cent fare has been adopted in an effort to induce the people peo-ple to patronize the service and eventually make poedble the building build-ing up of better city transportation facilities, |