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Show RATE RAISE TO BE FELT HERE Four Ogden Companies Will Be Affected by Proposed Power Increases. Vour lirge I gdi'n companies will be subjected to a big incr"asi- in power rates If the schedule for the service of power to the larger customers of the Utah Power & Light company pro-poseel pro-poseel by the power company go Into effect. The revenue of the power company com-pany would be about doubled over that it Is now recejin- from such ser- ice. ar-cordlng to an exhibit prepared l by order of the public Utilities commission com-mission of Ftah and submitted es-terday es-terday In connection with the application applica-tion for an Increase In power ratc3 1 now being considered by the comnus-I comnus-I slon I If the new schedule Is put in effect I the eigden Portland Cement compan I will be increased from $20,000 to 46,-1 46,-1 000. according to the exhibit. The I L'nlon Portland Cement company will ; be increased from 158,000 to 1142,000"; The Utah-Idaho Centra from $9r..-000 $9r..-000 to $192,000 and the Ogden Packing Pack-ing & Provision company from $12,-I $12,-I Oud to $25,000. The exhibit was prepared by R. H. : Ashworth. rate expert repri'snt ing the I power company, L p. Hockett, auditor ! for the commission .ind Hodge M.ir-I M.ir-I shall, assistant to the chief electrical engineer, who ! agreement, represented repre-sented the power consumers Their exhibit shows that tho actual revenue derived hy the power eompuny j from consumers of fifty horsepower and over In 1919. was $2. i 1 3,239.71. Had the proposed schedules been In 'effect, the exhibit shows, In accordance I with what Is designated ;ls "Commission "Commis-sion Plan N'o. 1." the revenue to the I company on exactly the same business would Ire e I" n $ I, Si' ..Hi -' This I Is an Increase of 102 per cent. The exhibit also shows that if the pieqpnl special contract now ui jftre before the commission had no ef- feet, and Instead all the power users were on the present standard sched-j sched-j ules, the revenue to the eohtpanj : would be $3,23706.90. an Increase of I 31 per cent oxer the present revenue. The revenue that would come from ithe proposed sohedules, however, would be 51 per cent higher than the revenue obtained even If all the power pow-er users were placed on btandurd schedule' |