Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-27

with an aggregate population
of Isl, 407, or an average of 5000. The
smallest population per community is
shown for Colorado. with two munich
pal stations supplying 1,4O2 people. or
an average of z01 fox, each station. An
average Of persons TO a family or
house would give barely 40 houses.
Distribution of stations
The largest number of stations was
in Illinois. followed by Pennsylvania
New York, Ohio. Michigan, Indiana.
Iowa. and Wisconsin in the order nam
ed No other state reached the $50
mark. The New England states were
well supplied with stations. Massa-
chusetts reported the largest number.
then came Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire. and Connecticut. Among
the southern states Texas led, with
Kentucky. Tennessee. and Georgia fol-
lowing. OF the western states. Califor-
MIA reported the largest number of sta
tons, Colorado. Washington. Oregon
and Montana being next in order OF
the 1892 places reported at the 18th
census as having a population of $500
anu oNNi i.oII Olt UT
electric lighting stations. OF the places
with smaller population, 1860 had
similar stations.
Long Distance Transmission stations.
A number of companies supply areas
of many square miles in which are To-
Gated scores of cities, towns. incorpor-
ated villages. and mere hamlets. all en-
joying the benefits of electricity and
constituting source of income for the
enterprise. The extreme limit of such
work at the time of this report was
marked by the long distance power
transmission on the Pacific coast.
where current from the Sierras was
actually delivered for general consump-
ton in San Francisco and Sausalito,
and was also delivered from the same
plants over lines which ramify into
half the counties of the state of Cali
fornia- The whole aspect of central
station current supply in its relation to
population has in reality been utterly
changed by the development of poly
phassS power transmission plants.
TheYeFj are at least a thousand such
pla9bs-. with lines frequently Is or 20
miias Dong, in many cases 40 or so
miles, often GO or 80 miles, and some
times even $50 or 200 miles.
These transmission enterprises are
peculiarly typical of the far western
states, but are by no means concen.
trated there, being scattered all over
the union.
Financial Operations.
ha 4,
debt authorized amounted to s743,296..
266 but the. amount issued was con
siderably less, being 1927 .515,S75. OF
the total amount authorized, $435, 17S,
372. or $50 per cent. was capital stock
and $SOS.117.S94 or Ais per cent. was
! funded debt. OF the total authorized
capital stock. 1872 1851. 1852, or S5.7 pc,
cent, chad been issued at the end OF
| the year covered by the report. OF
the capital stock issued. So, 1,671, OF
60 per cent. was preferred stock and
$349. $50 PSI, or 1916 per cent, was com
mon stock
Private stations expended S40.O5O,
613 and municipal plants $1741 1874 in
construction and equipment during the
year covered by the report. The tota
for private stations from theirs orfgir
until 1902 was s4S2719.S79. giving ar
average outlay of 1928 per horsepowel
of dynamo capacity. Ii is interesting
to compare these figures with those
1 for municipal stations which show
cost for construction and equipmen
of $4,000. 473. and an average of abou
S145 per horsepower of generating ca
M nit q iS- fn ~
Leverage as basis of comparison OIL
account of the wide variations re
lyealed in the different states. whicl
lrange from STA in Ohio to $sf4 in tn
state of Washington
Although the practice OF supplyin,
lcurrent for motive power and othe
uses had grown rapidly, the supplying
of current for light was still prepor
Ideratingly the business of both privat
and municipal stations. OF the tota
income, $70.13S.147. or Sis per cen
. was directly derivable from lightins
The private stations obtained sos pc
cent and the municipal stations 90.
per cent of their income from thi
source. This income from sale of GU
!, rent for lighting purposes was derive
, from 3S5.69S arc lamps and 1S,194,04
incandescent lamps. The average il
come per lamp for arc lights in privat
stations and used for commercial G
I other private lighting was S4S.Ss; use
for public lighting. $500 In munic
Ipal stations, for commercial or othe
private lighting, IT was s41.46; for pul
lie lighting, $69.9S. The incandesceI
llampS in Driyate stations in comma
r cial use earned an average income {
ri s240 per lamp; in public servic'
$6.o6. In municipal stations thes
lamps earned 1892 in commercial Sc
. vice and 1898 in public service.
The total expenses for private an
!. municipal stations were Sos, oS1 81
OF this, $20.646,69 was for salarie
3 and wages: $22.9I5.s32 for sunnlie