Excerpt from Minnesota Public Utility Rates, Gas-Electric-Water: Compiled in the Municipal Reference Bureau of the General Extension Division Since the organization of the Municipal Reference Bureau a number of inquiries have been received asking for comparative data on the operation of public utilities in Minnesota municipalities. It is the aim of this bulletin to provide this information. Questionnaire blanks were sent to the villages and cities of Minnesota having over 500 population. The rate schedules as herein published have been compiled from the replies received to these inquiries. The report contains the public utility rates of most of the Minnesota towns. With the co-operation of municipal officials it has been possible to obtain fairly detailed information, 214 of the 261 villages and cities filling out the blanks submitted. The returns from the larger cities are practically complete, there being but one city of over 3, 000 population that is not included in the compilation. The rate schedules vary so much in form and detail that it has been impossible to present the material in the form of tables. The information is classified, therefore, under the main divisions, has Kates, Electric Rates, Water Rates, and arranged alphabetically according to the cities served. The populations are those given in the 1910 census. The amount of use which may be possibly made of comparative rate schedules must depend upon the conditions under which the utilities are operating. It is realized that each utility faces local conditions, which are in some respects different from those confronting other utilities. The accessibility of comparative schedules, it is hoped, will be of value to those interested in the question of utility rates. The inspection of schedules published here would lead one to believe that in some cases a great deal of reliance has been placed on what the rates were in other places, and there undoubtedly have been instances where the rates were copied, in the main, from those in other cities. This compilation is aimed to furnish the facts with regard to rates in Minnesota. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.