Show SOME SONIE LIGHT ON THE LIGHTING QUESTION since most 0 of f the residents of price are soon to become users more or less of electricity from the muni cind plant it might not be out of place for the gri gnat griat at moral and religious to state that current is meas ureta by the kilowatt hour the rates for buying current from the electric light plant for power light or heat are alwaes much for each kilowatt hour of electricity consumed to explain the term needs first a clear definition and then a comparison everyone will understand that a certain amount of force must be used to drive drie electric energy through a circuit this f force I 1 orce is is measured in volts thus wo we have llo volt circuits and folt circuits the one expressing just twice the force of the other but the quantity of current passim passing through a circuit depends upon the force and the resistance this quantity 1 is expressed by hy a different term namely amperes now the efficacy of the current depends upon both force and quantity and to express this efficacy or united action we mu haply the force by the quantity the volts by tha the amperes we express the result in watts thus one hundred and ten volts multiplied by five amperes is one tholand and one hundred watts A Iilo kilowatt att is of course courso one thousand watts which aich is the equivalent to about one third horw hoew power in charging a battery the lighting companies bill for the uie use of io many watts for so many hours thus one thousand watts for ten hours would be charged as ten kilowatt hours which at five cent cents a kilowatt hour would be fifty cents a charge that seems little enough for ten hours use at one third horsepower horse power hut but hat a kilo kilowatt att hour is worth may be judged by what it will do thus a kilowatt hour figures an engineer of the general electric corn com an will light twenty sixteen candle incandescent lamp or two standard stan daid arc are lampa 1 for one hour it aill 11 pump one hundred gallons of water ater to a height of twenty feet compress com four hundred and seventy cubic ctet of free air one hundred pounds drive iri e an ordinary passenger elevator one hundred and seventy five fie feet print tivo mo thousand and five fie hundred circulars on a 1221 job oress or one thousand sheets on a cylinder press run a sew sewing ing machine for tuo hour hours supply air for a church organ for one service mix W two 0 and on opo hat half i cubic yards of concrete heat a two to pint chafing dih dish for four hour hours mix mi sufficient dough for one hundred and fifty loaves of bread broad and grind siv six hundred pounds pound of coffee it will ill drive a runabout four and tu tuo o tenth mile i or a three ton tan truck one mile the denver dener ct cit administration appreciates the importance to the wat of the bene benefits tits to be dart derived ed from the interstate inter state tate fair and ex which is to be held september sd to and aa a an aar is M one of the maat ardent boosters of ahk enterprise mavor ala or speer and governor Sha shafeeh freh have already gi given en a hearty stamp of approval to thie this raIt national nation ional Rl exposition in the queen city amuse soch avell an enterprise ter prise invitee the attention of the world te to the resources are de vel opted and arc are to be developed throughout the twenty western states that will be represented in the fairgrounds fair grounds ks indicative of the sentiment eliat prevails the colorado legislature now in session will probably adjourn in honor of tl ti e opening day of the fair and exposition september jd the city is constructing n r concrete roadway along the eastern dido dide of the fair grounds which extends three hundred varda southward this is designed to afford the acme of comfort aej an J facilitates the to the fair there arc are those who say the world contains no such thing as justice enough men fall fal into the holes hole anat they dug for others that we know better this paper treats all alike and gives full value for every dollar do you I 1 like ike atiat liat style of doing business the eagle is a noble bird but the old hen lien contributes more to the welfare of the human race no man with any sense ever did a really atte thine thing that he fenall regret |