The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-09
Estimated Reduction in Heat
ing and Lighting
Bill Is $50.
DAYTON MANS VIEWS
{. W. Hanley, of Dayton
Company Tells of Natural I
Gas Benefits. }

The citizens OF Richmond will save
on an average of $2O.50 per annum ON
their fuel bills if the city enters into
contract with the Allegheny Gas
company to supply the city with nat-
ural gas at 40 cents per 1000 cubic
feet, providing however, that the COM
pany supplies Richmond with the gas.
equal in pressure. heat units and quail.
ity TO the standard furnished the city,
of Dayton.
Dayton has been supplied with nat>
ural gas for eight years by the same
company which is applying for a fran
chise in Richmond and with the ex-
ception OF reduction in pressure In
very cold weather Dayton has receive
ed satisfactory service.
Interview With HanIey.
Edward W. Hanley. president OF the
Dayton Gas company. stated to the
Palladium this morning that the aver
age cost of natural gas to the domes-l
tic consumer in Dayton was about
$500 per annum and that about three
fourths of the $4,000 consumers which
the company is now serving use nat
NAoi SaS aihost eA1iusAfels IoT neat
ing purposes.
Mr.. Hanley said that Dayton is pay
ing 80 cents for natural gas and also
has an artificial plant which supplies
artificial gas TO the citizens at s5l
cents per cubic feet; that the standard
OF heat units of the artificial gas in
about 500 B. T. u. or about the same
as the artificial gas in Richmond, and
that the Dayton people thought the
natural gas was a great deal cheaper
than any other kind of fuel
In regard to their contract with the
Logan Gas and Fuel Company, Mr.
Hanley said, I'VE could not get the,
Logan Gas and Fuel Company to pu.
any standard of heat units, pressure oil
service in their contract with us but
am frank to say that the action of
that company's officers has been very
satisfactory and We have found them
to be very high class business people
to deal with. Dayton has experienced
some trouble in zero weather but I
think that has been due to the small
main now supplying the city. Where
there are three or four days OF very
cold weather about noon the pressure
OF the gas will weaken and gradually
get lower until late in the evening
when the pressure increases and con-
tinues TO increase until morning, when
it has again reached its normal pres
sure. / do not think this condition In
due to any fault of the company and
can be readily remedied, / believe. by
lnfr n n
Richmond is to be supplied from the
Is inch main line which runs from the
West Virginia fields to Indiana, which
should give your city all of the gas it
needs"
Average Artificial Bill.
According to J. b. Wharton, man.
ager of the Richmond Light, Heat a.
Power company, the average domestic.
consumer uses about $500 to 500
worth of artificial gas per annum but
almost no gas is used for heating pur-
poses.
Representative coal dealers of Rich.
mond estimate that the average family
in this city uses aboue $40 worth OF
coal per year in heating a house, and
this amount added to the average artf.
ficial gas consumption would total
about s5s to $50 per annum, as an aver
age heating and lighting expense.
Using the average yearly cost OF
natural gas in Dayton as a basis ii In
estimated that the annual expenses of
an average Richmond family using
natural gas for lighting and cooking
purposes and coal for heating would
total about $3.50 or a saving of, In
round numbers, $40 per year over the
present estimated expenses OF a fam
lily using artificial gas for lighting and
cooking and coal for heating.