Show 1111 IN WES EFFECTIVE SEPT I 1 public Uti utilities litie commission giants petition of company compan in all but one case the public utilities com commission in a ruling handed down saturday granted permission to the mountain states telephone telegraph graph company to establish estabill h and put in effect september 1 a general increase indrea e in rural and urban rates at its richfield exchange in only one in instance tance was the increase asked for denied and that was wa respecting spec ting the individual bu business ines lines line for which 10 60 a year ear was sas held adequate the company had asked for a raise from 54 to 66 per year and this the company putdown cut down to 60 the increase ranges ranged from 25 23 to 30 percent with special feea on rural rate for distance calls in granting the increate the commission calli attention to the fact that the mountain states telephone 5 telegraph company has recently expended the sum of in additions and better betterments menth at the richfield exchange the increased revenue to be derived from the anrrea 2 xi e in rate in the rural area will wi I 1 tre be in more e than off offset offet et by b the taxes aeed ae ed against the property placed in vice during the early earl part of 1926 it states state the total increase prayed for by the applicant will return less les than 1 per cent upon the property used and usable in the richfield exchange arear according to the commissions mi ion statement the applicant introduced ei evidence dence to show shon that the net income of the e exchange x in 1025 1925 aas as 30 that the average value of the property used was as 41 and therefore tho the company earned 83 of 1 per cent on its im investment estment it estimate that the increases in revenue from the new neu rates NN will ill be from the rural rate and 1356 from the urban rate making a total of 2001 2004 a year ear |