Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-20 | Page 17 | Finds Saving in Cost of Making Electricity

Finds Saving in Cost " of Making Electricity WASHINOTON, July 10 I1yA.P.) Tha felted States la becomng an Increasingly In-creasingly heavier user of electricity, electric-ity, but despite the mounting power totals, the eonaumptloa of fael to produce It la decreaaing In proportion. propor-tion. Geological survey figures show that the eonaumptloa of coat for that purpose In lilt was only I Bl pounds s kilowatt hour as compared com-pared with S.2 pounda In ll. A tetal of 47, 000,009 kilowatt hours waa generated last year. Of tn,s amount It.l per cent was generated gener-ated by water power. New York leada the Hat of atatea Jn production, produc-tion, manufacturing 16 67 per cent of the total for the country. Other states la order are Hennaylvanta. California. Illinois. Ohio, Michigan. ; ktaaaachuaetta and Weat Virginia. I