. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . nstances schedules are in force which make someconcession in rates with increasing consumption, but the rateshave seldom been determined with regard to the cost of frequently the tendency is noticed to copy the rate scheduleof another community with the result that many inconsistenciesin charges are passed from city to city. The majority of sched-ules on file, in the effect of their application, are not calculatedto secure the greatest development of service with the consequentreduction in the unit costs. Annual Eeport W
. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . nstances schedules are in force which make someconcession in rates with increasing consumption, but the rateshave seldom been determined with regard to the cost of frequently the tendency is noticed to copy the rate scheduleof another community with the result that many inconsistenciesin charges are passed from city to city. The majority of sched-ules on file, in the effect of their application, are not calculatedto secure the greatest development of service with the consequentreduction in the unit costs. Annual Eeport Wisconsin Bailroad Commission, 1908, 41. ELECTRIC, GAS AND HEATING UTILITIES 175 Not only were the rate schedules incongruous, but widediscriminations were practiced.^ For example, in one vil-lage of 1,400 inhabitants, the electric company grantedspecial rates to forty-two out of a total of ninety-niae con-sumers. The amounts which those forty-two favored con-sumers actually paid, and the corresponding schedulecharge for each, are diagrammed in Fig. 1 TVPICAL DiASRAM SMQWIN© DI SCRIMINATION IN CHARGESrOR ELECTRICAL 3CRVICE IM Village of i4oo /Vofe— Points in/he upper•suM zigzag-lino reprejent monthly t^lnargejvvtjichCjtiould hiave baen paid according to tliesctiedul& rotas. Lo\fl/erheavy dotteidling representji amounts CKtooflypaidtjy jndividual cffnsurrjers - — -— (\Jfl/\J(UlUUAj(U(UlUMK»»3K)ia«n«)0rtT7-^ Reference No. Individual Consumer? Recievinq -Speciol Rotes Fig. 1. These graphic charts are taken from the 1908 annual report ofthe Eailroad Conunission of Wisconsin. By way of explaining the above diagram an illustrationmay be taken. Consumer No. 36 was paying about $ per ^Eor statistics on discriminations practiced by utilities beforepublic utility regulation in Wisconsin, see Report of Eailroad Com-mission, 1908, 49-71.
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