Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-09-27
GROWTH "a "ELECTRlCITY.

Inc department l commerce INC AdN'l, h'O Va
the Census, has gotten out an advance outline Of contents
of a special report on Central Electric Light and Power
Stations. From the outline The Citizen gathers the fol-
lowing facts. 1t may be stated that the period covered
by the report itself ended with June, 1902.
The history Of Central Stations proper belongs only
to the last quarter of the last century.
The estimated useful life Of a lOo-Wa 16.candle-
power lamp made today is over 10000 hours, about TWEEN
ty times as long as it was twenty-five years ago.
In the last quarter Of a century a total Of over
2s0.D0O,OOO lamps nave been produced, or not less than
1eDOO,O0O a year.
Eight stations began operation in 1881, and in the
twenty years between that time and 1901, the average in
crease of stations was 165 per year.
In 1902 there were in the United States $500 central
electric stations, with a cost Of construction and equip
ment of $5O4,7 1852. Employed were 6,996 salaried offc-
fAls and clerks with salaries amounting to ~$566S,5SO;
and 1880 wage earners with wages amounting to $l4,
sSs,112. The gross income was $S5, 7OO,6O5, comprising
S~s4,1s6,605 from sale of current and Sl5l40OO from other
sources. Total expenses were $~6S,0S1,375. The total
output of stations for the year, in kilowatt hours, was
2,507.051 lis. The number of arc lamps was 3S5,69S and
of incandescent lamps 1~S,194,044.
A number of companies supply areas of many square
miles in which are located scores of cities, towns, incor-
porated villages, and mere hamlets, all enjoying the bene.
fits of electricity and constituting a source of income for
the enterprise. The extreme limit of such work at the
time of this report was marked by the long distance pow
er transmission on the Pacific coast, where current from
the Sierras was actually delivered for general consump-
tlnn in San Francisco and Sausaiito, and was also dis
tributed from the same plants over lines which ramify
into half the counties of the state of California. The
whole aspect OF central station current supply in its rela-
ton TO population has in reality been utterly changed by
the Development of %polyphase power transmission plants.
There are at least a thousand such plants, with lines fire.
quently fifteen or twenty mile long, in many cases forty
or fifty miles, often sixty or ninety miles, and sometimes
even $50 or 200 miles. These transmission enterprises are
peculiarly typical of the far wetern states, but are by no
means concentrated there, being scattered all over the
Union.
Albuquerque is especially interested in these facts,
because it is by electricity applied to pumping that the
nlnrFTpw Of uof1- y,r,-A - ,--1l.-n $50 .s-4s
of the valley and mesas adjacent to this city. Quite re-
Gently The Citizen gave a detailed account Of the cleo
trio generating plant near the American Lumber Mills,
which is now furnishing remarkably cheap electricity for
both power and lights and which can furnish for these to
any amount required and at any distance necessary. The
sooner the facts become known, the sooner will the ru-
raj population tributary to the city be largely increased.
There is no little feeling in the country at large that
even IL the vice-president of the SIS. packing company
was so i'll that he could not stand the prison infiction
as a part of his punishment for confessed crime-that
even If this was true. his illness formed no reaon why
his confederates should escape jut %punihment for their
mlsdeeds- Why were not those three sent to prion? I'm
Prisonment is the only way to reach that class of Grimm
ais. What do they care for $4,000? An hundred times
that much can be made by an increase of one cent a
pound on the products of their plant. and thus the people
be made to pay their fine many times over. One of the
greatest injustices of our law is the Imprisonment of the
poor criminal and mere filming of the rich criminal. I'M
prisonment, graduated in length to suit the enormitv of
The onense, should be the only penalty for wrong doing.
30 Tar as general market conditions are concerned
mere are no indications of a reaction from the high de-
gree of prosperity that is so general throughout the
country, says Henry Clews. Railroad earnings. bank.
ciearings and other standards of measurement fully at
test this, and the reports of railroads that are now an
pearing for the fiscal year are generally favorable in
character, with the exception of the Atchison. which suf.
tered from heavy floods during the year. There is no
longer any question regarding the volume of the crops
and their generally fine quality; and the only adverse
factor now possible in this direction would be the appear.
Ance Of early severe frosts. which might cause some de-
1HrlDraflnn in What norm h~- -. - ar
An official statement just issued by the Comptroller
OF the currency, says Henry Clews, indicates how active
1s the demand for funds throughout the country. This
estatement is based on national bank returns 10 the hank
cal OF August 25. and shows an increase from the prev.
aous call of May 20 of $99,S3S 900 in the item of loans and
dlsoounts. The increase of cash during the same period
amounted to about SIC 100000, while the increase in hank
circulation was $23, 500, 900. Compared with one wear ago
the bank call of September 6, 19O4-an increase of
S]S'OOO,OOO is shown by loans and discounts while cash
Increased but 100000 and circulation increased s57.
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II would surprise the ordinary reader were The Citi-
zen able to give the exact number of pounds OF poultrv
shipped into Albuquerque every year, or the number of
dozens OF eggs brought to this market in cases. Twenty
cents per pound can always be had here for fresh poul,
try, while even case eggs seldom fall below TWENTY-FIVE
cents per dozen. Kansas. it has been said. makes more
money from her poultry than from her wheat fields. and
she ships as far as California. The Albuquerque market
should be supplied right here at home.
An interesting TACT in regard 10 the shipment Of APP
pie from Grand Junction, Colorado. about to begin. is the
sale of 100 carloads in New Orleans. Altogether the shin.
ments will amount to about 500 carloads. and it is prob.
able that a very considerable quantity will go to the south
in addition to the 100 carloads to New Orleans lust re-
feTred to.
Holland is the largest user Of Coffee, the largest OF
cocoa, and the second largest Of tea, the per capita in
pounds, in the order just mentioned, being 1439, 436 and
Las. In other words, each man, woman and child il
Holland, consumes during the year twenty and one-fftt
pounds Of the three greatest suppliers Of family bever
ages.
Mayor Collins, Of Boston, OF whose death telegraphiC
dlsnatches told last meak arrived In his country q non