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Show UTILITIES CASES HERE AT PRICE ARE GONE OVER SEVERAL COMPLAINTS LOCALLY LOCAL-LY ARE ADJUSTED. Formal Hearing of Baxter Bros., Who Would Contlnno Operation of Lino to Basin Country, Comes Up With tho Result That tho Objectors Withdraw With-draw Protest Recently Made. If. II. Mood, member of tho public utilities commission of Utah, has returned re-turned from n trip to Price nnd other points in Cnrbon county, where n number of innttcrs received his attention, atten-tion, says Inst Monday's Salt Lake Tribune. Among theso was n formal henftng on tho application of llnxtcr Dros. for cnnission to continue the scrvico between Price nnd Mylon, formerly ocrntcd by J. S. Frontjos, now deceased. Tho application wns protested by ono Chris Anderson, who operates nn nutomolilo lino from the Uinlnli Hnsin by another route, but Anderson withdrew his objections nfter hearing tho testimony of Hnxtcr Pros. Wood also investigated tho inforntnl complaint of John Pctitti of Wnttis that ho wns unnblo to get scrvico from tho 1'nstcrn Utnh Telephone company. 1'ctitW is n merchant nt that camp, but tho company protested that tho line, which serves not only Wnttis nnd tho Lion Conl company, but also tho onmH nround Scoficld, wns already overloaded. Tho matter was adjusted by tho agreement of tho telcphono eoinmny to install nt onco n booth nnd n pny station in n bihlding not far from the Pctitti store. Within nbout n fortnight tho cointnny promises to instnll another rfrcuU from Price to Wnttis, gifiug tl'is camp n completo scrvico nnd that nround Hcoflcld an indeiicudcut line. All tho lines nro loll linos. Wood conducted n hearing nl tho stipKOrttion of the IV.co Commerelnl club looking to the- giving of bolter connection between tho Price to IIcl-or IIcl-or stngo line nnd that from Helper up Spring Canyon. Tho owners promised prom-ised to get together to sco if tho mat-ter mat-ter could not bo arranged to the satisfaction satis-faction of tho public. At this hearing it wns brought out that the Carlxin county seat is becoming nn important automobile stagn lino center. Koutoa rodinto from it into tho Uuitnh Basin, nnd nlso into Kmcry county as well as to several different coal enmps. Price business interests suggested thut Jlto Utno hns como whon, in then interest of publlo convenience, these lines take on n union stntion in Prix', instead of, as now, nt Mints widely apart in tho city. Wood promised the siiiiort of tho ulilltiM commission m any arrangement seeking to accomplish accomp-lish such an end that might be fi mid xMw,lile. |
