Show POINTING WITH prudis LOSS long columns of figures aro arc usually monotonous and sometimes wholly non now understandable to the average person but to the trained statistician they hold a gold wine mine oi of know knowledge ledga to be carefully sifted and cassea along as a simple story such la ii the story they give to tho the growth of a single industry the gas industry in the united suites states presented to us by a recent survey harvey of natural gas and manufactured gas it would appear dif 11 calto duplicate atao progress ot this ono one single industry from rom the open libath dayh to the present day efficient uses asca to which gas la Is put but doubtless there are many other similar stories of growth ot of in industry in the iho united states for instance it was found that la Is invested in tha th gia gas industry to furnish service to IT customers tho gas gaa coin ironies employ persons with annual payrolls totaling total lug and back of 0 the job of each employee Is an investment of 37 in 1020 tho the average employed emp loye lit in the iho industry worked 48 hours a week against 40 hours now and the vay pay Is slightly higher today gas heatlie of homes la Is on the i increase it being estimated that iba t j homes in tho the country aro are how heated with gas now to reach real figures big enough to lo asphyxiate yo you the total production of natural gas alone lit in 1037 aggregated cubic feet fea this was an oil all time ilme high exceeding 1030 1930 by more than 17 per cent |