The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-09
ATTORNEY FAUSETT OFFERS
PROOF THAT THE STONE
WEBSTER INTERESTS
HAVE BEEN ROBBING
ILLEGALLY
Following Statement Was Sent to
Public Service Commission.
INTERESTING FACTS BROUGHT
TO PUBLIc'S NOTICE

The cost of reproducing new the
properties of the Everett Railway,
Light & Water Co., was found by
your commission to be as follows:
Up. 40 P. S. C.. Report, 1922
Water system, $657,139.O0.
Light and power system, 1856, ,45100.
Earnings for 1911 were found by
your commission to be:
Water system (net), $66,007.00.
Light and power (net), $40,121.00.
Earnings of Everett Ry., Light &
Power Co., for year ending December
81, 1914, filed with your commission,
were as follows:
Water system (neD, $106,639.96.
Light and power (net), $97,59O.SO.
Surplus fund brought forward from
1913, $1S4,S5365.
Surplus fund carried forward from
1914, $197,S40.42.
The above amounts are net, after
payment of interest, taxes, sinking
fund, lease rental of $51,S00OO, of
which payment investigation is re-
quested of your commission.
The company's annual report for
1914 shows earnings of the water sys-
tenn to have been nearly II per cent
on value of the plant; while the light
and power system is shown to have
earned about 27 per cent after charg-
ing off a sinking fund and paying a
large lease rental Just what this
lease rental is paid for is the subject
for investigation by your commission.
The Everett Ry., Light & Power
Co.'s tariff No s, filed by Puget
Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.,
with the commission, fixes residence
lighting rates at SC per kilowatt hour
for 1st 60 XVIII, and over so XVIII. is
charged at &c, while this same cur
rent, generated on the same machines
in the mountains, is sold in Seattle
at 5 1-2c for 1st As kilowatt hours
and &c per XVIII. above As.
Further, Chapter III, Session Laws
of 1911, states that public service
companies shall file tariffs of their
charges and provides penalties for
deviation therefrom.
Tariff No. s, above referred to,
fixes residence lighting rates at Sc
per XVIII, with 81 monthly minimum,
while in truth and fact, said Everett
Ry., Light & Water Co. actually
charges S8Sc per XVIII. for current,
and $1.1O minimum. The company's
account books can be called upon for
proof of this charge, and your COM
mission is hereby called upon to in
stitute prosecutions for collection of
$1,000 penalty provided charging in
excess of rates filed in said tariff.
The city of Bellingham, Wash, is
of identical population with Everett,
and it's water is brought from approx
imately the same distance. Its rates
are as IOHOWS.
Minimum rate per household, SOC.
Charge for bath, 25c.
Charge for toilet, Csc; $1.O0.
Minimum monthly charge, $1.00.
Sprinkling of tract 125x125, free.
The Bellingham rate Is on any size
house with persons.
Everett water rates vary as the
rooms in the house; 6-room house
is charged $1.75 per month with 25c
per month additional for sprinkling
for four summer months.
We request the commission to re-
duce water rates in Everett to at
least the Bellingham rates; abolish
ing the Everett system of charges ac
cording to rooms in the houses, also
abolishing sprinkling charges, which
obtain in no other city on Puget
Sound.
Page 80, p. c. Report for 1912
finds that the Everett Ry.. Light
Power Co.'S item of general expense
Ia excessive; also that said company''
operating expenses would be in
creased $4,000 year for power pur