Show Electric Development In The Future The field for fo for future development or of orthe the electric industry is so great that capital investment in utilities is ex- ex expected expected ex expected to increase by a third within five years according to a survey made by Bonbright it ht and Compa Company y potential Six outstanding reasons for poten poten- potential potential growth arc are given i en About one one- third one third of the population still lives in unlighted homes and more than half of wired homes contain no electric labor saving devices except flatirons The average home when completely equipped with th electric service will twill consume ten to twenty times as much juice as at present More than 90 per cent of American Ameri Ameri- American American can farms are arc not yet served with th electricity and but half of our in- in industrial industrial in industrial power requirements are met by the utilities In recent years years- years factories factories have been consuming a steadily increasing amount of electric power But two per cent of o our railway mileage is electrified with great projects announced for the future We have hard hardy be begun un lighting high high- highways highways highways ways and airways The developments of the future have been chart charted and begun besun Farm Farmand Farmand and railroad electrification have proven practical and More and more homes are being ade- ade adequately ade adequately qua tely wired and equipped with ele- ele ele appliances The amount of pow pow- power power power er within the command of each in- in industrial industrial in industrial worker steadily increases The electrical age that has revolutionized revolutionized domestic and economic lif oes lif-oes goes oes on with increasing momentum |