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<br /> <br />o <br />,.-', <br />~. <br />~ <br />f.).') <br />-..1 <br /> <br />to which the Company objects. This new line increased the <br />Comp~'s capacity in this area by 30,000 kilowatts and addi- . <br />tional facilities will be constructed when needed. <br /> <br />5. <br /> <br />Since the end of the war the Company has built more than <br />600 miles of .rural .lines andhas.~onnected more than 3500 <br />new rural customers. At the present time the Company is <br />servi some 10 00 rural customers which re resents a roxi- <br />me. e. 90 of the farms in the Com: any s service area. B <br />the close of 19 this cover e will reach <br /> <br />6. The Company has fully met all requirements of the mining <br />industry in its service area and provided the necessary power <br />for the development of such vital new industries as oil shale <br />and uranium projects on the Western Slope of Colozado'. <br /> <br />---000000000--- <br /> <br />COMPANY'S RECORD OF COOPERATION <br />WITH BUREAU AND DrBER PUBLIC <br />AGENCIES <br /> <br />. Another phase of the.record...ofthe <br />Company'S ability to carry out the program <br />which it proposes concerns its cooperation <br />with various public agencies. <br /> <br />1. Late in July 1948 representatives of the Bureau stated that <br />their northeastern Colorado and Wyoming system was faced with <br />a serious power shortage and that they desired to buy 22-1/2 <br />million ldloW'Ltt-hours frcm the Co~ during the ensuing year. <br />The Company immediately began to feed energy to the Bureau, <br />even before the conllUIlllllation of a contract, and during the <br />first ei t months of this 0 eration the Com has SU lied <br />more than 19, 93,100 kilowatt-hours to the Bureau's system at <br />Greeley, thus showing its willingness to cooperate with the <br />Bureau to the fullest pOssible extent. Other examples of the <br />Company's Cooperation with the Bureau down through the years <br />were set forth on page 11 of its 1948 presentation to Congress. <br /> <br />i <br />i <br />. <br />! <br />I <br /> <br />2. The Company has likewise demonstrated its willingness and <br />ability to aid municipal power systems by increasing its <br />substation capacity at Loveland, Colorado, during 1948 and <br />thereby doubled the amount of supplemental power supplied to <br />this municipal system. Likewise, the Company made an inter- <br />connection with the LODgmont municipal system on October 31, <br />1948, and during the ensuing five months supplied 3,216,750 <br />kilowatt-hours to this system not only meeting an urgent need <br />for supplemental energy but permitting the LODgmont system to <br />make a substantial saving over its high cost diesel engine <br />generation. <br /> <br />5 <br />