Application of Northern States Power Company

STRUTZ, Judge,

on reassignment.

Each of the above five cases was started when Northern States Power Company made application for authority from the Public Service Commission to extend its electric service lines to the named consumer in each case, all located in a rural residential development some two miles west of the municipal limits of the city of Minot, known as the Little Ponderosa Subdivision. Northern States Power Company, by franchise, furnishes electric service to the city of Minot. Although there are five separate applications for such extension of service, because of the similarity…