Excerpt from A Guide for Members of Rural Electric Co-Ops Why did not power companies build more rural electric lines? Commercial companies are in the power business for profit. They usually cannot make as much profit from rural lines as from urban lines. Before 1935, most farmers could not get electricity unless they lived close to towns or villages, could afford to pay a lot toward the cost of getting a line built, and agreed to pay high rates for electric service. 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.