Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-01
GREAT THINGS
PROMISED FOR
HOOSIERDONI
New Electric Corporation to
Furnish Power With
out Limit.
special TO The Times.


KOKOMO, Ind, March 1.-The Indiana
Electric Corporation and the construction
Of a central power plant in the coal
fields means much to the development of
Indiana, L. G. Rothschild, a represent
tive Of the corporation declared in a talk
before the Chamber of Commerce here at
2oon today.
O. Mr. Rothschild opened his talk with a
discussion Of the electrical development
IN Wisconsin under the direction of
Joseph H. Brewer, head OF the Indiana
corporation.
Joseph H Brewer, who accomplished
this development in Wisconsin, brought
his engineers to Indiana to investigate"
Mr.. ROthschild said. "They found that
the black coal Of Indiana would accom-
pIish at the mines the same purpose
that the white coal OF Wisconsin did.
With this in mind they decided on
super-p0wer plant somewhere in the coal
fields where there was ample water sup
ply for condensing purposes. Now TO
erect this super-power plant it was alb
sOIuteIy essential to have in advance an
outlet for the current manufactured.
Thus the consolidation OF the seven pill
flies or the formation Of the Indiana
Electric Corporation. This Indiana Flee
trio Corporation means to you. citizens
What a fine slogan for your Chamber Of
Commerce in this city Of manufacturing
institutions TO put forth in your propa-
ganda to foreign manufacturers, We can
give you unlimited electric power
Now as to the superb power plant. 1t
IS to be located In the coal fields on the
Wabash River in Vigo County. 1t viii
be constructed on the 800, 600 kilowat
unit plan One transmission line viii
run from this sUper-power plant direct
TO Kokomo, another line will run from
this super -power plant to Indianapolis
and from indianapolis to Kokomo. The
!. transmission lines viii form a triangle
SAvith Eokomo and indianapolis two
ASbOints and the super-power plant the
other. If there should be an Interrupt
ton in one part Of the line, the current
viii be sent around the other way.
Testimony submitted at the recent
hearing showed that electric current
could be put on the switchboard at this
super power plant for about mills per
kilOwat. Statistics show that 1t costs
the average power house from 10 to Il
mills per kilowat. Then another point,
this super-power house in the coal fields
would save somewhere in the neighbour
hood Of $4,000 annually in freight trans
portatiOn. Instead of transporting coal
you transport electricity-the ashes and
slate are dumped at the mines. The
territory the Indiana Electric corpora
ton will serve has a population of about
100000 people and II contains more worn
out isolated plants than any other SINH
llr territory in the country. Gentlemen,
the Indiana Electric Corporation IS the
greatest economic advance in electrical
development that has ever been presented
TO the State All over this country the
one idea is large electric units, and the
prediction is made by noted electrical
and financial men that within twenty
years cities Of one State would be tied
electrically to cities Of another State,
or Interconnected. On the Pacific Coast
that condition exists today"