The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-01-17
UTILITIES BOARD
VISITED MOSCOW
OF LIGHT AND POWER
RATES AT KENDRICK AND TROY
WAS CONSIDERED
Rate Put Into Effect-Inyestigate
Complaints at Juliaetta and Troy
OF for Wallace

At hearing held in Moscow Satur
day night the public utilities commits
sion OF Idaho composed of Axel P
Ramstedt, chairman; John W. Graham
and A. L. Frehafer, the commission
formally adopted schedule of light
ing and power rates for the Potlatct
Electric company for the city of Ken.
drick, the schedule of rates having
been submitted by A. V. Dunkle oil
Kendrick who appeared before the
commission with voluminous data re-
lating to the cost of installing the
plant now in course of construction al
Kendrick The rates which will be
put into effect at Troy on the COM
pletion of the line by the company
were also adopted.
The members of the commission
lreached Moscow Saturday afternoon
after visiting Juliaetta and Troy to
investigate complaints. At Juliaetta
the commission investigated com
plant relative to electric service and
with view of improving it. The
town is supplied by power by the
Juliaetta Milling company. At Troy
the commission investigated a COM
plant relative to toll charges between
Troy and Kendrick on the Pacific
tokn 1,,,o hot
the commission would take up the
matter with the head office at Spo-
kane
At Lewiston the members of the
commission conferred Informally with
Attorney G. w. Tannahill of Lewiston
and Frank L. Moore of Moscow rel
ative to the Kendrick water complaint
and the formal hearing will be fixed
for future date,
During the visit in Moscow over
Saturday evening and Sunday the
members of the commission were
uuartered at the Moscow hotel where
many prominent Moscow people call
ed and paid their respects. Mr. Ram
stedt, chairman of the commission. is
not unknown here, having previously
been auditor and recorder of Latah
county and numbers among his
friends thousands of residents of the
county His parents reside here and
he took occasion to pay them visit.
Il have enjoyed my brief stay in
Moscow very much and am much i'm
pressed with the city" said Mr.. Gra-
ham Yesterday while the weather
is somewhat severe in this section at
this time, l cannot help but note the
spirit of the people of
Moscow and it always gives me pleas
une to stop off here and meet the
people" Mr. Graham, while occupy
ing non-partisan position and re-
trains from taking part in politics.
is a republican and is a leader in the
party affairs of his home county, Twin
Falls.
Mr. Frehafer, the democratic mem
Der of the commission, is a loyal
friend of the university and never
'ails to inquire as to it's progress when
listing the city. He is resident of
Council. in Adams county, and in |
rears gone by has been one Of the |
talwart warhorses of the democratic
,arty in the state. AS state senator
rom Washington county, he was one
# the original prohibition leaders in
daho.
Members of the commission left !
or Spokane yesterday and from there
to Wallace today where
omorrow an important hearing will {,
g held which the Washington Water
over company is asking for a re-
pening of the case against the Mon
ana Power company, Federal Mining I
ompany and others relative to the {
uilding of power line by mining ,
ompanies into the Coeur d'Alene dis ,
'ict, securing the power from Mon
ma. The commission will this week i
$50 hold a hearing at Occur d'Alene 1
! a complaint against the telephone \
there. d
The commission is accompanied on c
le present trip by Everett Barber, q
xpert stenographer, who is trans c
'ibing the transactions of the COM t
ission on its journey. Z