Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-02-20

what think are facts.
In the office Of your Board OF City
Development are letters frum concerns
that manufacture: Glassware tsD. iron
foundry. paper manufactured from
straw steam motors. caskcts and
chairs. brick aud tile. ciccsc. brOums
and by.pruductS.
Aside trtm these. are proposals from
stockseliing concerns who propose II
manufacture everything from an aero.
plane % four.whcel drive motorcycles
and the latest S,ylc Of automobile rub.
berlesi tires.
Generally those interested In new
location inquire:
First-As to transportation facilities
Second-FNicl aud water.
Third-i.abor.
fourth-Llving conditions Hous
ing facilities. costs and rentals.
= Ffth-Taxes-S,atc and County.
sixth-Cost OF living.
II IN not n difficult matter 10 explain
the advantages IL our transportation
facilities, track sites, rates. etc. And
y 10 my knowledge no serious objections
have been registered against our rail.
rad possibilities. and as n matter OF
fact. little could bc done 10 remedy
any situation that may b. pertinent to
our geographical location. Railway
development always comes In time and
IN degree commensurate with our
industrial. agricultural. livestock and
commercial expansion.
fucl--in describing Amprillo's prox.
unity 10 what. has been declared by.
experts Ia be the worlds largest nat.
ural g,S field. ! always try To- confinc
myself To facts as they have been de.
termincd by men ~ authority. govern.
mcnt and state biologists and the IL.
ficials NJ our local companies. For In.
stance the report tina, We have under
control over a billion feet at Els par
day IN common. hut as a matter ~
foct there are 10 wells with total
daily capacity Of iso.500. Oe0 cubic feet
M this numbsT and amount there are
four wells STRIVING the City OF Amarillo
with a dally oApacity of is5 100000
cubae Zee, per si.hour day.
Industries seeking location are not
80 vitality interested In what We have
" sAANNA VI ~
they arr In the amount made acccssi'
bic Ter the city. Not what II can bc
purchased at the wells for. hut what
u costs delivered under boiler or IL
gas combustion engine IN this
connection and for your information
quote the capacity OF the present
and only pipe line serving the munici.
pallty. II is an Sinch line. the length
of which IL g i.s miles. For an s.
inch line - i9 miles long. quoting from
wcstcutt's manual. which by the way
II tho latest treatise and bCst authority
on natural gas. The total capacity Is
lt.esi cubic feet per q hour day.
Also have very carefully complied
tho following table OF costs averaging
and to,aling the seven largest gas con.
SUNNI. industries now using natural
KaE
Total cost for gas burners
Cost Of cuai par year from JUDY. 1919.
C.. July. 1890. freight and drayagc IN.
kiudcd. sss.si?It
Average per h.p. per year, sss.et.
Total eos, for gas burners and the In
stallation uf same Tor the seven same
industries. ti.Si;,oo
4 Adding per cent depreciation
charges. ses.3s,
Eight per cent interest. site.7e.
The burners and their installation,
depreciation and interest represent .
total Investment Of Ss.0sgli.
Cost Der year for gaa averaging past
several months Tor same industries s
&.i. 80
Showing a saving on fuel 81 tis..
4t:is.
a saving on labor ~ s5.50O,O0.
A total savin. of si7.s,sIs
Average cost 10 produce h. y. With
mined fuel. sse.ei
Average cost 10 produce h,p. with
NATURAL gas. sit,2S.
Saving per year per h,p. over voD
sS.as.
Total yearly saving. N7.etsi In
vestmcnt. ss.OSa.ll, or about sos pcf
cent return un Investment.
Prom the hes, Information that I
have gathered large Industries use IN
the ncighb, rhod II from ON, hall mil'
lion IT, five million cubic feet of gus
per day and they prefer To have gas
NilNhN AWNNNkU u Wii'ifnA INV YUAN
that which serves municipality,
Thcrc arr many reasons Ter this, the
principal bcing that they would not
want municipality to exercise control
lover fuel fer industrial purposes ~ u
es;cod many industries have their boilers
aud walls ~ constituted that u Is hest
Co have a constant fir and In Somc In
stances when the flrc IL withdrawn II
l~cumo~ necessary Ia de- q great deal ~
labor work an the walls. Their uhicc'
tions aIc that they would not want to
shut down their plant for day ~ any
part 1T day az for any length ~
time due e. depleted pressure nc a
Eck II capacity.
AS IT, the prrscn, pricr oi ouf gas.
the two glass factories. the un" iron
factory. the haick aud tile factory have
written us that Il was plohihitivc and
would MT warrant them moving a. this
field The glass factory was paying
isisc and IN enc instant lie and cuni.
plainlng.
However, u II the opinion uf several
men. whom I would consider fuel ex.
pcrts that ras sold below Ice per 1900
cubic feet would w. detrimental To- the
community. 4 conservative fuel en.
Einccr suggested a scale ol this Kind
fu municipality purposes iOc per