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Show RflTESUPHELD Supreme Court Denies Smelter Company's Appeal in Power Case , SALT LAKE, Feb. 26. In a dcclfl ion handed down yosterday by the su-preme su-preme court of Utah, the order of the state public utilities commission .-,bro-rroTrcrcntlal ralos Rrnnted l,v the tnh Power ft Light company in special contracts with about fifty of I largest consumer", was sustained I rhc decision denied the appeal of the I l ulled States Smelter tompanv to Have th jnhllc utilities eomniNslon order nullified. The decision terminates one of the hardest fought battles ever waged In I'tab. The effect la to place all ous-tomers ous-tomers on the standard rate iehedulee and does away entirely with the preferential pref-erential rates. It restrains the Utah Power & Light I company and every other power com- , PnJ I" 'lie slate trplH sr-lllng the I same service to one customer at i hoaper rate than to unothnr. The de-I de-I Clalon is also regarded as a victory for th commission in establishing Its complete control over power rates in th state. Although bhc KCtlon was brought by the United States smelter company. It is considered a tst case, applying In Its effect to m 1 1 the fifty-odd soc j.,1 contract Cuqtomera of the company 1 1 controversy in the special con-Iracl con-Iracl c.is. s bagaii with an order Issued by the commission in s- ptembet1, 1'.19. slatltur that II con -idereii (In- rates specified m the sp. eini contiiict- aa disi rlminatoryyand preferential and contrary to the public utilities law, .in-1 reiiulrimr both the power company and the ' ontr.net holders to show cause Bhj t'i" rates Should not he abrogated and replaced by the standard schedules sched-ules of rates. Then followed a longeries of hearings. hear-ings. In which a ma.s of cvi.l e w.ie Introduced, both hy the power i-om-pany and the contract holders. Tlx commission decided that the rates were preferential and ordered them abolished, placing the power nsors concerned on the standard schedules. |