The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-03
RENDERS A
$3.50 OP|N ION IN
GAS PRICE INCREASE


In allowing the Consumers Light &
Power Company Of Ardmore, TO in
crease the rates II charges. large gas
consumers throughout the territory 1t
supplies, but to leave unchanged, for
the present, the rate charged the in
dividual consumer, Commissioners
Campbell Russell OF the corporation
commission enters into detail in review.
ing the situation, briefing the case as
submitted by the company, in his syl-
abus, so that all may understand the
claims made in urging the increase in
rates
Ethiopian i'm the Gas Main
The fly in the ointment, the possible
colored citizen who may be concealed
somewhere" in the gas mains of Ard
more, lies in the first paragraph OF
Commissioner Russells finding, in
which he intimates the advisability of
reopening of the case In order that
the gas company may be enabled to
show wherein lies the difference in the
valuation claimed at the hearing and
the valuation ON file with the corpor
alton commission, made by the commits
sion's engineer in July 1917, and in
order that a further revision OF the
prices charged may be made.
The paragraph containing the posi-
ble rider reads
Would Reopen Case
THE commission finds that. while
the applicants rates have given an
ample return during the past years,
an increase is necessary at this time
because of the increased cost in gas.
This increase should be borne largely
by the Industrial consumers. As the
difference in the valuation made by
the commission and that claimed by
the applicant is so great, and as the
commissions attention has been called
to the fact that applicants taxes have
been increased, the commission deems
II advisable to have this case re.opened
at an early date so that further teS'
timony may bc taken relative to those
matters and others affecting the al
fairs of the company. a full revision
Of the present rates then Will not be
made atthis time; only the rates 10
the larger consumers will be raised
After further hearing, the rates as a
whole will be adjusted and certain uls-
criminatory features eliminated.
One and Same Company
In referring to the claim of the gas
company that it has to pay almost
double the amount paid few years
back for its gas, the commissioner, III
another paragraph of his finding says:
The testimony shows that the gas
is gathered at the wells Of the Ard
more City Gas Company and Is ue'
liverpd TO the Consumers Light Pow ,
.r Company at the city limits. Ihe ,
latter company distributes the gas TO I
consumers These two companies are q
practically one and the same as they r
are owned and operated by the same
people
'rhe fun text of Commissioner Rus
sells finding follows; /
RPORATlON COMMISSION OF &
Cause No 3699 Order ,
No. 1877 /
I'm re application of the Consumers O
Light and Power Company for increased Fl
sas rates at Ardmore. r.
FINDINGS or FACT AND ORDER Y
Sylabusof Opinion a
BY THE COMMISSIONS 81
The Consumers Light K Power Com S
,any filed it, application to Increase ~
sas rates i'm Ardmore on January II, Ii
1919 and hearing on this application Il
.ook place before commissioner Russell
n the city of Ardmore on March 70, 81
1919. after due notice had been given 81
as required by law. u
why Increased Rates Necessary
The application states tnat increased ~
,ates are necessary because Of increased w
,ost of gas and other operating ex- u
lenses. q;
The application also states that the -
ross revenue during the year 1919 was II,
;143.793. .6S; that the operating expenses -,
we're $1l4.03514; that the operating eX -,
,enses for the year 1919, based on the -,
increased cost OF gas alone, would he ~,
.l5l 10000, and that with the gross -,
evenue the same as 1913 the net OPP or
rating loss would amount to more 90
han 81 100000 TO
The testimony shows that the com of
ANY has heretofore purchased its gas We
rom the Gypsy Oil Company for /
ents per thousand cubic feet at the tr
onsumer's meter. the producing com pc
AMY thus standing all of the line loss GO
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