| Show Power Growth Business Barometer l 8 After near h two to 0 cirs s of the Statistical Research de department of the Electric Light has lias reached the concluSion that the demand for In industrial PO power poster er serves as in I dy accurate inde index of conditions condItIOn throughout American industry Gen Con General General oral eral business activity It is as ns a rule with Ith the It of hc fie tor tort It Ins his been i by th the N Conference Board Boud that 73 per cent ant of all m-ichinco m IS operated b bi by electricity and that near lv Iv two to thirds of or this power pother is put pur from flom light and power po companies com com- com companies The business of the electric light md ind power po companies is grow growing growing Ing ind therefore etch cich year ear car should normally show n a s gun guno guno ci o O Cl et the preceding period ew e customers e customers of all kinds arc are being con COil continually continually added to the lines Imes new mot motors motors ors are arc being installed in factories new ne users are arc constantly const mg being mg eloped developed which to a 1 large e extent supplant older processes de depending depending pending upon other forms of energy Oil heating is rapidly lh supplanting tilt the coal furnace and electric get atmon ahon the old fashioned ice box 1 the he for all sorts of labor laboi saving devIces for the home is increasing by b leaps loops ind nd bounds until the house householder hou holder is no longer simply i i custo customer customer mer foi fOl lighting he has become n a power po user usei E ery r e thousands of farms arc are being electrified adding addingto to both the diy dW ind night loads of the light ind nd PO power er company 7 1 he l R Research Depart Department Department Department ment has been making i careful study of these factors of gro growth and seasonal variations and while hile it IS not yet completed it is felt that pie estimates of normal use of current can be mn made e en n Ind applied to the fi figures ures of production collected md and published b bi by the thc United Stites Geological Sune Surrey As As- Asa a n result of interconnection cabs s George Tidd 65 kilowatts atts of pot PO power er plant capacity does docs today what hat It il took at to do In 1913 Today's roday's doll ir is ms worth orth only Go Ga cents in m general bu buying busing mg power po as with 1913 vet bet et it still buys a dollars s worth orth of power on the 1913 basis That is ms a aClY ClY creditable record for the power PO er per Industry industry per haps s unequalled in any other line of endeavor |
