Show YOU CANT HAVE YOUR CAKE the government owned hydro e electric at bonneville is ready to sell its juice the portland general electric electr c company Is the one big prospective buyer to date it is 13 ready to distribute bonneville power to the public and pass on to consumers all resulting savings according to franklin T griffith president of the company mr said his company had stopped work on olt private hydroelectric hydro electric expansion the government investment at bonneville Is tax tree free this means that malins mt lins 0 of dollars which private companies would have expended to furnish power as needed d wll 11 not be on the tax rolls mr air griffith questioned the soundness 0 of tax exempt power districts and said that the taking inking of property from the tax roll never had been known to decrease the amount of taxes needed tor for government lie he also called attention to the tact fact that an investigation by the th federal power commisa commission 1011 hail had chown oregon washington and idaho as havez having ig the lowest elec elect trl rt ates ancs in the country aud port portland land as ow of the ithe five litaea havi having the I 1 lowest domestic c rates 1 I baa have I 1 found no case te he sad ead in which tho the rates fixed for or rural ser service vice in a feda ally financed project ar afo athin speaking distance ds tance of rural c rates available to farmers in 11 eculA ies we served at all times during the last ton ten years yeam there is probably nothing the northwest needed less than a tax exempt hydroelectric plant |