The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 13, 1919, Page 13

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Lucker, Edison Distributor, 90 S. 8th Street., Minneapolis, Minn. $998 SANITARY CLOSET INDOOR This improved, neat-looking, san- ltar mdo?)r closeE will ma.kelgyour home dern—give you city comfort and con- vemence—- rotect your family against sickness, Easily ms::.l'led u:l m:ly rloom sani! and odorless— Guaranteed }izh quallty— perfect satisfaction or your monéyrefunded within thirty N days, Only $9.98, Big pro- f duction makes thislow price possible, Write for informa- tionorsend in your order now —you take no risk whatever., Wate: =W, tcrlmrfi 7 llgl-gl‘}:k-o: St. N. Minneapolis, Minn, v i ; bi Don't lnme & Crops eV ey year. > FARM DITCHER " QRADER 12 CER sdjestable. Cuts or cleans ' dnchd It.deeg;-n nfl—douhbu . 300 men. erte for & 00. A Record of Service for the Farmers (Continued from page 4) the last session of the' legislature to deal with other public utilities than rallroads, the commission al- ready is making a splendid start. One of the big cases taken up by the commission is an investiga- tion of the water rates of Bis- marck, the capital city, Bis- marck’s water plant is owned by Alexander McKenzie, for years political boss of North Dakota. The water charges are about five times as high as those at Fargo,. where the water system is owned by the city. Incidentally, the state of North Dakota has em- . ployed Robert Blakemore, who made the Fargo water system the big success that it is today, to be at the head of the home building. association, The Bismarck wateF plant, in spite of the higher charges, does not furnish as good quality water as the Fargo plant. The reason apparently is, as one of the commissioners put it, “There is more water in the capxtahzatmn than there is any- where else in the system;” in other words, it was-a plant built for profits rather than service. Soon after the railroad commission had been given authority to take juris- diction over other public utilities, a group of Twin Cities capitalists, in charge of the General Utilities cor- poration of St. Paul, owning and oper- ating electric hght heat and power plants at Kenmare, Enderlin, Oakes, Carrington, Devils Lake, Casselton, Sheldon and New Rockford, figured on stretching out and takmg in more territory. They came before the com- mission with a new corporation called the Dakota Light, Heat & Power com- pany, with a proposal to add to this string of utilities the electric light, power and steamh heating systems at Bismarck, Dickinson, Jamestown and Mandan and the power system at Lis- bon, and to issue against these utili- ties new securities totaling $2,675,000, which White, Grubbs & Co. of St. Paul were to float for them.. The financiers sent two of the cleverest lawyers of the Twin Cities to Bismarck in an effort to induce the commission to grant permission for this merger, which would have given them control of plants in every part of North Da- kota. COMMISSION REFUSED TO PERMIT MERGER The commission examined the case thoroughly, especially the valuations allowed the different utilities. It found that the financiers had added a flat 17 per cent of “water” on'the plea of war conditions, apparently to justify the bonds that they intended to float. It also appeared that the proposed consolidation would make it more dif- ficult, later, to segregate the finances of the separate companies and to de- termine which ones should have their rates reduced. The commission, there- fore, refused permission for the desir- ed merger. - Within a month after the case had been passed upon the General Utilities corporation went into bankruptey and its properties now are in the hands of a receiver. Only the action of the commission saved the plants at Bis- marck, Dickinson, Jamestown and Mandan, from being included in the bankruptey merger. Incidentally, in- vestors who might -have put their money in the watered stock were saved. One of the most important pieces of work that the commission now has under way is a survey of the telephone situation in the state. Aside from the Bell system, there are 750 rural tele- phone ..companies in North Dakota, principally . farmers’ . mutual lines, constructed for local semce. Many PAGE THIRTEEN of these lines are constantly in diffi- culties. Most of them are well con- structed in the first place, but im- proper provisions are made for keep- ing them up. The Bell company, wherever the mutual lines tie up with it, makes exorbitant charges for toll service and allows the mutual com- pany only 5 cents a call out of their collections. At the end of a few years, many of the mutual companies find themselves with their poles rotting, poor wires and exchange equipment, calling for an almost complete re- building of their system, and no money to do it with. It is only nat- ural under these conditions that lines on which thousands of dollars have been spent by the farmers fall into the hands of the Bell trust for a small fraction of their real value. Fred Bremier, an eastern utility expert, is handling this matter and other public utility cases for the commission. The commission intends to outline 2 plan of organization, financmg and bookkeeping that will insure every farmers’ mutual company knowmg how much it must put aside in a re- serve fund each year to make good its depreciation. Then rates' can be charged that can be continued with- out a hardship on anybody and with- out profiteering, that will keep the ‘company on its feet. 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