Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-31
INSIDE HISTORY
OF POWER WAR
GIVEN THE court
Attorney for Kuhn Interests
Declares General Electric
Company Is Heavily In
terested in Idaho.

S. III. Hays, attorney for the Great
Shoshone and Twin Falls Water Power
company. intervenors In the case in
volying the right of the Idaho Power 6.
has been granted permission to file an
answer to the petition for temporary
stay of proceedings In supreme court.
This he did in the form of a sworn
statement, reviewing the successive
steps in the contention between the
power companies and the resulting It'll
CATION The statement was not meant
to bear so much upon the prayer for
stay of proceedings as upon the final
decision of the issue as between the
Idaho Power & Light company and the
utilities commission. The substance
of Mr.. Hays sworn statement is as fol-
lows:
The Num- interests and the Kuhn
interests had conflicting property
rights on the Malad river. The Num-
interests built a one unit power plant
on the Malad river and ran their lines
into Boise and the surrounding coun-
try. This was an attack on the Fuller
Mainland interests, owning the Idaho
Oregon Light & Power company. They
retaliated by organizing the Idaho
Railway Light & Power company
which acquired the ownership of the
Idaho Oregon company and later the
idaho Power g. Light company This
was the original Mum company, known
formerly as the Beaver River company
and it's acquisition gave the Fuller
Mainland interests ownership of the
Malad plant, with the line into Boise
as well as the Idaho Oregon company
Acquired by General Electric.
On the refusal of the Kuhn interests
to give up their rights on the Malad
invasion of the Twin Falls and Poca-
tello fields was begun by the Fuller in
| terests. Later on, says Mr. Hays, the
General Electric interests, already In
control of the Salt Lake and Portland
territories, acquired the Fuller inter-
ests and virtual control of the Boise
district and the territory around Idaho
Falls and st. Anthony. In other words
Mr.. Hays declares that the General
Electric interests now entirely surround
| the former Kuhn interests, from Black
foot to Mountain Home, now owned by
the Great Shoshone g. Twin Falls
| Water Power company and the South
ern Idaho Water Power company. He
further declares that ever since this
| change in ownership a hot fight has
been waged on the former Kuhn inter-
ests. of which the present case against
the public utilities commission is one
phase.
Invasion OF the Twin Falls field be-
gan last November. On Nov. % the
Great Shoshone company filed com
plant with the public utilities com
mission This led to the order pro-
hibiting the Idaho company from OPP
Grating in that field and to the pres
ent situation.
Mr. Hays, commenting upon the
statement he filed In the supreme
court, intimated that more significant
Developments might follow yet before
the controversy is finally settled. He
said:
Some people wonder why 1t is thai
the Idaho Oregon company and the
Idaho Railway, Light g. Power COM
pany are both in the hands of receiv-
ers, and how 1t happens that there APP
pears to be litigation between them
i or between various interests in them
but that" he concluded, SIS diff
ferent story"