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Show THREE ON STAND FOR RAILWAYS Interurban Lines Give Effect Ef-fect of Increased Power Rates Upon Business ( Sprrlsl IMspatch ) SAIT 1AKE, Jan. 20. The heniine1 liore before th Utah utilities commls-Ion commls-Ion In connection with the fljrht of the Interurban electric railroad to set r-duced ratea for the current they ue i In operating their train wna confined today mostly to testimony of a technl-i cal character. The, witnt.se are being croi-ex- amlned by counsel for the I'tah Power a.- Light company, vhlcn In reniiftlnfri effort to have changes made In the method of fixing rates for power used j by the railroad companies The witnesses In the forenoon BM-Ion BM-Ion were George 6hover. superintendent superintend-ent of motive power fur te Utah-Idaho Central and Ieonard Wilson, consult-' Ing engineer for tha Interurban line?. H K Kutler of Siin Francisco, an ' electric expert retained by tha road was to take the witness stand this afternoon. af-ternoon. Testimony presented by the railroad rail-road 14 to the effect that the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Central's power bill was Increased In-creased $30,000 by tbe new schedules, the Orem line's power bill fit 000 and the Bamberger 2o 000. Tho power company's counsel sought to show by cross-examination that the roads had ben oermltted to j Increase rates sufficiently to brw.c ihm more than enough to oover the! Increase due to extra power costs. Julian Bamberger testified that) auto truck competition made lt Impossible Im-possible for his line to seek relief hy uklng permission to Increase rates. |