Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-09
The GAS MONOPOLY.
4 H,sa Defective Memory md Con-.
samers S11.F Accordingly
ENORMOUS PRICE, BEING CHARGED


Salt Lake city T. just now tuiietlng
from the effects Of .zcs'sive natural
tas anu electric lphl Charge. Ho"
ong II will DO 10 Is an unhnswrrti
question, The people ihemssIvc' mur'
rcply 10 that query. one thing he cor
lain, and thnt Do, cou'umefs %. both
natural gus nni electric lEht are be-
sominr aroused 10 the situation. Talk
u an organized effort 20 resent mo
u,pollsto txnctious 10 rife m cer'
tain quarter, and uultts mo.ihcstiuus
SHALL snsn be- made by tbs company
from under whose opetNtio comes the
ssuss Of complaint, then inIefsstin2
developments may he looked 90.
The CITY Council h s alfotiy been
appealed to by users u natural lns. A.
sue lssl meeting u the muuiullhl
fathers petition was read rom W. Z.
Green 0thers, FUttirg iutiu that the
Salt Like Gasaud EtC re Light C.u.'
Iurv wins mtkiug minimum charge
% 81 90 per 1000 cubic vtt Of grH f-'
lar.is, Ut whether that much of tue
h saLpfoduciug ysTur hau been upsu GO
uut, wolfe the company ifauchtu
expressly supulnlol tAHt the rar sinai
be furnished at puto not ~ exceed
bO ceuls ptT 900 fssa
The petitioners efi,d iu BiyinR TINT
the rompsuy's itarcblsr Irsviuyi itr
minimum charge oil On cent?. 10 hes
no Isht TO charge that amour
The iHUt IL the UTiinuuCu under which
the tfAuchiHu wa gfAutei hKos 80
4 BAD o.. H.H 81 d
ufce that cen be charged. Section o
VI tue OruiuanCu al te'sly stale;
The Salt Lake g ogden Gas g. Electric
Ligh company. dufIug thH period a.uru-
aid, shall Hnd by lis arcup aur1 " DO
privilege, hereby granted agrees wi Do
ihe said CITY % turuish WnuuiHr ufru Ens
20 he citizens OF snld oiiy alta price not
To exceed $40 per tuuusnud cubic fUeE
and 10 wator gas ~ furnished thr price
suull no exceed sl.Iu per thousand cubic
Zoe, aud 70 natural uHs lH Furnished tho
price shall MOI exceed uvfy cents per-
thousand cubic Jsgi, aud tbat tuO suIu UHy
To- % public purposes ~ Be- root lighting,
or buildings owned by The city, Tor ell
hosri ais aud public buildIug- Tor chart
ahlo or religious putposos " any KIND
thnll make discount, from lhO afury-
said price, " ton per cont
Aaau Offset 90 this the Halt Lake anu
Ogden G,s aud Electric Light COM
pay, it's uniortood, Iuts l0fth tue
plea that II h operating, iu pari, under
the ifnnChigu 90 tn American Natural
Gas company which allONH pUcr r0'
60 exceed bU ,UnIs Per 1000 cubic feet
to be- chaTstd. Ihis rate 10 the rteu.
oian ARA cement between tue two
companies, the latter furnishing thv
gas anu tue Tmet the pipes AMI nee
"a afy paTapheTnAla, IL IN eh Wn turt
tvnii the Halt Lake sad Ogden com.
pnuy has the lcgsl right 10 operate
un1tr tue franchise OF nnOtue.
company, II hHs no fivht 90
Increase rates 10 huy Genie, which 10
freely acknowledge doing. More tuan
that, It, rates according 10 well stated
complaints IN some cases rsach, 10 they
d. rol iGdetd exceed, 81 o.
ppr 1000 feet NJ minimum, HucI
laTiug Injustice HH tnst was t1duy uU.
u .uatel tylmuch stronger terms. Ald
Il II iurt tuch O PROCEDURE the public
ieels should be summhtily stopped.
When this company Appeared 90 the
Council tor IL tfauchlse 10 spec. Ideally
agtsel, aa hns been shown, o. furnish
vas Al Gust nIt exceeding tuirty cvulI,
NOtniug Whatever was ssil about tue
MINIMUM TAU W llN ANN uulNfs
standing the franchise was granted.
9Ovu afterwards, however, u seemed g.
have u,c.tnt the victim OF an OxcprI-
ingly bad memory aud by drgrcr- su.
vsucru the fUtus uutl they arc several
huutrou per cent higher than they
IhUuld be-,
The MISTER will now doubtless b.
fully invsstit aed ~ thr.C Cgunci .
having been Referred g.. a committee %
mat body,
Tue vAutbiiant charge, in thIs Dc
Ia most all similar cas,H, much more
teri usly anoch poor am uai Il No
entail people, thau 10 does those Whu
are wealthy or even those In moderate
elTcumatauCos, some li them have
paid under protest aud others have
uuc1mpialuiugly submitted, UNptc..
ing anu hoping that the Newspaper
would take ~ the tsht In tueir lu.
teIta In the interest Of the public.
30 lar ~ the News h c0ucctu-l 10 10
Willing 10 make tuat hghg right nos
AM continue waglng II until tue rlgl,
10 dvuO.