Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1931-12-05
new PUBLIC UTILITY RATES
HERE MEAN REDUCTION FOR
LARGE NUMBER CONSUMERS
Some Rates Cut From Seventeen To Twenty Five
Percent Under Order Issued By State
Corporation Commission

ing for many years between the
Public Utilities Consolidated Cor
poration and the city of Nogales:
During the past fifteen years the
Corporation Commission has given
considerable thought and study to
the vexatious utility problems pre-
sented in the city of Nogales.
'-1he tremendous overhead oc-
caaioned by duplicate generating
stations and duplicate distribution
systems was more than the compan-
les could carry, and in 1928 Southern
Arizona Power Company was or
ganized for the purpoSe of taking
over the companies
LESS than year after the con-
colidation of the two companies the
city filed a complaint with the
Commission contending that the
two competing systems into ore eff
ficient operating unit, and that the
Commission should Immediately re-
value the plants, excluding the in
efficient duplicate generating units
and distribution lines, and set new
rates for the city.
From information gathered by
the Commission Southern Arizona
Power Company did not carry out
its promised plans of rehabilita-
ton and consolidation, except in
come minor instances. Neither the
gas holder, which it hoped would
greatly improve gas service, nor the
Diesel unit, was brought to Nogales.
cat the present time the property
OF Public Utilities Consolidated Cor
pcration includes the following:
Plant RIO. l., electric generating
station formerly owned by Ariz-
cns Gas 81 Elec. Coz
Plant No. 2, electric generating
station formerly owned by No
gales Elec Light & Power Coz
Gas Plant on site of Plant No. 1.
Ice Plant on site of Plant No. 1.
Electric distribution system serv-
ing Nogales, being consolidation
OF the two original competing sys-
TENS, and partially rebuilt.
Street lighting system.
Gas distribution system.
Electric sub-itation and transmits
sion line serving mines in the
Patagonia district.
Electric distribution system serv-
ing Nogales, Sonora.
Sub-station and distribution SyS-
tenn serving irrigation and light
ing load in Baca Float district.
CAS- a result of numerous informal
complaints from the City Council
of Nogales and the consumers of
Public Utilities Consolidated Corp
grafton, the Commission on its own
initiative instituted an investigation
for the purpose of determining the
reasonablenesc of the existing rules,
rates and regulations. Pursuant to
due notice a hearing was held in
Nogales, July 18th 1881.
after a considerable study of all
the evidence adduced at the hearing,
the Commission is Of the opinion
and finds
THAT in this case the Commits
sion is justified in including in the
Nogales rate base only that por-
ton CT the used and useful property
of the company utilized in deliver
ing utility service to the consumers
of Nogale5 and vicinity; and that
the mine transmits, ion line, which
admittedly serves only mines in the
Patagonia Mining District located
twenty or more miles east of No
gales, should not be included in said
rate base; likewise, the 'Baca Float
underbuild" which serves an irri-
cation and small lighting load, at
a distance Of twenty or more miles
north of Nogales, and which is in
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