. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . tances 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. 1 Annual Eeport W
. Regulation of railroads and public utilities in Wisconsin . tances 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. 1 Annual Eeport Wisconsin Kailroad Commission, 1908, 41. ELECTRIC, GAS AND HEATING UTILITIES 175 Not only were the rate schedules incongruous, but widediscriminations were For example, in one vil-lage of 1,400 inhabitants, the electric company grantedspecial rates to forty-two out of a total of ninety-nine con-sumers. The amounts which those forty-two favored con-sumers actually paid, and the corresponding schedulecharge for each, are diagrammed in Fig. 1 — — — — fy(UHjflJ^J»JAjru«JW»in»)*liilO»l»11 1? t^ Reference No Individual Consumer? Recevinq RqjTeS Fig. 1. These graphic charts are taken from the 1908 annual report ofthe Eailroad Commission of Wisconsin. By way of explaining the above diagram an illustrationmay be taken. Consumer No. 36 was paying about $ per xFor statistics on discriminations practiced by utilities beforepublic utility regulation in Wisconsin, see Eeport of Eailroad Com-mission, 1908, 49-71. < ^3regulationofrail00holm
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