The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-14
tail Rates
FOR ELECTRICITY
ARE STANDARDIZED
company's Three New Glasses
of Service, With II Seized.
ules to Each, Approved

Standardization Of its electric
rates throughout the state has been
accomplished by the Otter Tail
Power company through schedules
approved by the state railroad board.
In order that the same rates might
apply in towns Of similar size, the
company has filed one series of
schedules applicable in cities Of g.
500 or more population. The next
series is applicable in towns of from
500 to $500 and a third series in
towns Of 500 or less.
Eleven different schedules are
contained in each series, consumer
being given an option as to which
schedule they prefer.
Class A Schedules
In the class A. the residential
rate is s 1-2 cents per XVIII for the
first 100 XVIII, and six cents per XVIII
thereafter. Separate schedules are
provided for residential cooking and
refrigeration; lighting. cooking, re-
frigeration and general purposes on
one circuit; commercial lighting;
commercial cooking and refrigera-
ton: power; industrial power and
lighting and electric signs. Provi-
sion also is made for optional rates
whereby the consumer pays a fixed
charge for each room in his house
but gets his electric current at a re-
duction from the standard rate.
The residential cooking and re-
frigcration rate. is four cents per
XVIII for the first 200 XVIII and
three cents per XVIII thereafter. The
combination lighting. cooking and
refrigeration rate includes a ROOM
rate charge of % cents each for the
first five rooms and Is cents a room
thereafter, with a minimum charge
Of So, but the charge for current
is only four cents per XVIII for the
first $50 XVIII, and three cents per
XVIII thereafter.
Class II and c Rates
In clss B, the standard residcn-
tial lighting rate is nine cents per
XVIII for the first 100 XVIII and sew
en- cents per XVIII for all over 100
XVIII. Other schedules for class B
cities have the same ratio to SIM
liar schedules for class A cities
as is indicated in the residential
lighting schedule.
The same ratio holds true for
Glass c towns, where the standard
residential lighting rate is II 1-2
cents per XVIII for the first 25 XVIII,
nine cents each for the next Is XVIII
and eve cents each per XVIII there
after.
Because of heavier consumption,
the larger towns enjoy comparative
~ lower rates than those in other
classes but in some cases the steps,
or number Of kilowatt hours re-
CURED before a lower rate is OBJ
tanned, are different.
Towns Affected by Change
By placing the schedules on a pop
ulation basis, the application of the
schedules becomes automatic, in SO
far as the power company is con-
cerned, although an order Of the
state railroad board is required to
make the rates effective for any
municipality. The population of the
town is determined by the last fed
eral or state ensus
Among towns where the new rates
have recently been ordered into cf-
feet by the railroad board are Aber-
crombie, Arndt, Barney, Berlin, Bis
bee, Bowden, Calvin, Christine,
Clyde, Cogswell, Courtenay, Daven-
port, Darcy, Doyon, Eckclson, Fin
gal, Finley, Forman, Garske. Good
rich, Hurdsfield, Neville. Matador,
Mapes, Millarton, Montpelier, Mylo,
Niagara, Nome, Perth, Rolla, Rut-
land, Sarles, Starkweathcr. St. John,
Sykeston, Turtle Lake, Washburn,
and Webster. The new rates will be-
come effective in September. both
in the class G towns mentioned and
in the class B towns. which are Car
rington, Velva, Cassclton, Enderlin
and Langdon.
The class A rates apply only to
Devils Lake and jamestown and