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Show I i i . . Utah Electric Lines 1 Ask Power Rate Cut No Reason Why State Should Serve Ice Cream to One Utility and Bread Pudding to Another, Roads Declare, Whitney Says Current Big Factor in Increased Expenses. THE lnterurban railroads of Utah I M. are lust as much public utilities as i tin I tab Power & Light company and it the Utah Utilities commission I serves tho power company with Icel cr m in the form of larger rates tol guarantee earnings, the lnterurban J 'lines should not bo confined to a diet) 'of bread pudding This Is the attitude adopted by thej U tah Idaho Central, the Bamberger ! Electric and the Oreni roads ln their' fight before the utilities commission for relief from Ihe schedules enforced' by the Utah Power & Light company. All three roads have petitioned the I commission for relief from the Increased In-creased rates charged by the power company, for the current used to operate op-erate their trains. i W A Whitney of Ogden, general manager of the Utah Idaho Central, I railroad, which runs irom Ogden t"l Preston, Idaho ucetwded the witness' sMud most of tho iiionfing. Mr Whitney made tho announcement announce-ment that during the first 11 months, of 1921 SO per cent of tho Increased) cost of operating the lino was caused by the increased rates of the power company. The railroad man painted a picture of conditions In l lah before the day of the lnterurban railroad and contrasted con-trasted the-rn with conditions prevail-In prevail-In now. Me declared that the ser-vlco ser-vlco performed to the citizens of the state warranted tho state's giving the lnterurban lines justico In the matter of rates for power. At ih conclusion of Mr Whitney's examination, he was complimented n'-Commissioner n'-Commissioner Warren G. Stoutner. who declared he was greatly Impn seed by the information presented by the igden railroad man W. C. Orcm, genoral manager of tho Salt Lake & Utah (Orcm i railroad wn.i the next witness. He told the commission how the Increased power rate had added to their burdens Th hearing is expected to continue through tomorrow. Arthur Woolly o.;soi for th Utah Manufacturers and others, in the fight to r-'ct lower power rates, filed his irlof with the utilities commission yesterday. |