1. Rural Electrification Before the REA "A Case Study
... the Kansas Corporation Commission. For its fifty years of existence, Berwick supplied power to all residents of rural Northeast Nemaha County willing to pay the $250 required to purchase stock in the corporation. The $250 buy-in requirement was intended to pay for the cost of transmission lines from Sabetha to stockholders. In many cases the $250 purchase of ... law. The granting of their non-profit municipal cooperative status placed the Berwick Company outside the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission. It must be remembered that the purchase of stock in the Berwick Company by...
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