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Show OLD COAL STOVE IS H HIGH PISE Far Better Than Electricity, Say Utah and Other Experts on Subject. ' BOISE, Idaho. Dec. 12. For real heating heat-ing efficiency the old-fashioned coal stove cannot be equaled, Idaho's public, utilities j commission was told today by witnesses j who are testifying on behalf of water power companies In the hearing on the question of the feasibility of supplying ! electrical heat from water-power plants! ; to the homes in towns and cities in southern south-ern Idaho. Heating efficiency at present is graded ! as 75 per cent for the coal stove, 60 per I cent for the hot-air furnace and 50 per cent for hot-water plants. In Montpeller, I taken as the standard southern Idaho I town, and figuring coal at $7.65 per ton, a six-room house can be heated for $39 , per year with coai stoves; for ?49 per , year with a hot-air furnace and for $58 per year for a hot-water furnace. Klec- . trie heat for the same dwelling would i cost n IS. Witnesses todav were Dr. Josepn H. Merrill, dean of the electrical engineering , department of tho University of Utah; Dr. : H. G. Miller, professor of physics and ! electrical engineering at the University of Idaho, and H. M. Ferguson, a Utah elec- j trlcal. engineer. j The talked-of project, which played a large part in the last Idaho political campaign, cam-paign, of heating Boise and the homes of the surrounding irrigation districts with power generated at the great Arrow Rock dam, was declared Impossible by the experts, except at a cost far in excess of the present prices of coal and wood. |