. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . was about $150, this amount the taxes, depreciation and interest charges at 6per cent amounted to $9,000 annually. The operating expensesproper footed up to about $11, for the year. Of the fixed charges of $9,000 the fire service was allotted$4,800 or 60 per cent and the general service $4,200 or 40 percent. Of the operating expenses of $11,, the capacity costamounted to $4, or per cent; the output cost to$5, or per cent and the consumer cost to $2, per cent. When of this deman


. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . was about $150, this amount the taxes, depreciation and interest charges at 6per cent amounted to $9,000 annually. The operating expensesproper footed up to about $11, for the year. Of the fixed charges of $9,000 the fire service was allotted$4,800 or 60 per cent and the general service $4,200 or 40 percent. Of the operating expenses of $11,, the capacity costamounted to $4, or per cent; the output cost to$5, or per cent and the consumer cost to $2, per cent. When of this demand cost in the operating expenses percent is allotted to the fire service and per cent to the generalservice; when the output cost is divided on the basis of 2 per cent MAKING OF UTILITY RATES 151 for the flre and 98 per cent for the general service; and whenthe fire service is made to bear about 5 per cent of the con-sumer cost and the balance thereof goes to the general service theresults are about as follows: Totals. 19, When the $2, for operating expenses of the fire serviceare increased by the $4,800 which this service is made to bearfor the fixed charges the total annual cost of the fire service is$7, When the operating expenses of $9,, as above appor-tioned, are increased by $4,200 for fixed charges, or for taxes,depreciation and interest, and when these fixed charges are allot-ted to the capacity, output and consumer cost on the same basisas the operating expenses, the total cost of each of these classesand for the general service as a whole is as follows: For General Service Only Capacity $3, Output 6, Consumer 2, Total 113, When for general service the consumer cost of $2, isdistributed among the 1,200 consumers of the plant the averagefor each is $ When the output cost of $6, is dis-tributed on the 150,000,000 gallons of water sold, the average costper 1,000 gallon


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