The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-14

pays $1 per thousand cubic feet. and D
 per cent of the gross receipts go to the city. In none of the cities except Nashville. where the price is the same.
 IS coal as cheap as here. As to the price charged for gas. ana
 as to the 5 per cent of the gross re- ceipts going to the city of NasnVllle' Consumer" Is correct. AS to the infor- nation on coal l am unable to contirmi
 as am not posted.
 S"Consumer'' says: The rates gwen
 above are for Illuminating gas. fuel gas
 in nearly every instance being *l. grosser misrepresentation or the
 facts could scarcely be imagined. much
 less stated. Please refer to the table above. and you will find that three cities. viz: Norfolk, Va. Richmond,
 Va. and Nashville, Tenn. are sellinB
 fuel gas as low as $l per thousand.
 For the life of me l cannot see why any man could so apparently. Wlltully
 misrepresent the facts with the lntor-
 nation before him as l suppose he, hao.
 on which 10 base his statements.
 The other six cities average Sl.3V o-s
 per thousand cubic feet for fuel gd<s'
 while the proposed price by the Mont gomery Light and Power Company TOT fuel gas Is $10S per thousand.
 The average of all the cities named
 by him dncluding those charging Sa per thousand for fuel gas) IS sl'zo o-9 per thousand cubic feet, while the Montgomery Light and Power Com pany propose to sell at Sl.0S per thou sand feet. I would suggest to the young man, before placing himsell before tl1e public in the role Of phi lanthropist that he be more caretul III assembling his facts before presenting
 Let us look a little further into the average of prices 50 far as the tdole submitted by me above Is concerned The average of all of the above cltles for fuel and Illuminating gas IS Sl'zS'9S' the price proposed by the Montgomery Light and Power Company for fuel and illuminating gas is $1.35. The average of all of the apove-named cues for illuminating gas is $1.4O 6-9 per thousand feet; the price Of the Montgomery Light and -~ POW CT Company for illuminating gas is $1.62. If my figures and statement be true, then the Montgomery Light and Power Company. with her present limited output, is below the average of larger cities by far, in the price of fuel gas, and compares most faVoraply in the average of all the above clties' for both light and fuel gas, being only about cents per thousand cuoic rect higher than the average of the cities named by Consumer You will mo- tice from the table furnished above, that I do not use the population of the cities, but do use the population sup piled with gas. The situation in other cities is no doubt practically the same as in Montgomery; that is. the gas pipes are not extended all over the en- tire corporate limits. Now, by consol- idatng the entire population of the nine cities named above, and then di- viding 1t by nine, you will find an av craze population of 65,SI1. Compare this with the population supplied in Montgomery, 25, GOO which number 1 have assigned to Montgomery as the district supplied with gas. and you will find that the average is more than 1-2 times that of Montgomery. Let us go now further into the question and find what the average number of me ters are in the cities named, as con- pared with Montgomery, and we find that the average number of meters in the nine cities named above to be 3,7S3, against 1,094 in Montgomery. You will see from the table furnished that the average feet per meter per annum con stunned in cities shown. other than Montgomery. is 29.770, while Montgom- ery's average is 20,343. The average in come per year in the cities named, oth- CT than Montgomery. is $34.90. while the average income per meter in MQntgom- cry is $2746. showing an actual differ ence in favor of Montgomery of $7.44 per meter per annum.