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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28
CENTERVILLE
Observation-Disclosures.
Received December p

Mr.. and Mrs. Del Hatch and
daughters of Blackfoot spent Sun
day at the R. s. Kelley home.
Mrs. John Raymond is entertain
ing a sister from Iowa. She is a
nurse and contemplates taking up
her work here in some hospital.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon for William Herbst in
the Groveland hall. He was laid to
rest in the Groveland cemetery.
Mrs. Will Brown will leave this
week for Rigby, Idaho to make her
future home.
Mrs. Ben Arvish and daughter,
and brother, Harry Fay, arrived
here Friday from Anaconda, Mont.
Mrs. Arvish will return to her home
after short visit with relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Hannah Roubidcux and
Eddie Nappo motored to Pocatello
Thursday with load of dressed
ducks.
Miss Violet Raymond, who has
been staying at the Munson home in
McDonaldville, has returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Stinnett and
daughter were guests at the Crosby
home in McDonaldville on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Farnworth are
preparing to move to their new
home in Groveland this week.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28

little over one and half million
dollars as being entitled to partial
returns because it was so invested
and so operated.
The commission had very diff
ficult and very important task to
perform. 1t sought to protect the
public so they would be paying fair
returns on capital invested for their
benefit, and it sought to give pro-
lection against extravaganza and
waste on the part of the company.
If it went too far in one direction it
enslaved the customers. If it went
too far in the other direction it
would drive capital out of Idaho,
out Of power and light enterprises
and keep people from having the
natural resources developed to give
them the modern service. 1t would
force them to keep on using kero-
sene lamps, gasoline engines and
other more expensive and less ef-
ficient things.
In making comparisons between
the power service company and
private enterprise such as farm or
a store, it should be remembered
that the limit placed on the power
rates holds good thru many years,
and the private enterprise has a
chance to make money in larger
volume during very prosperous
times, to balance up the low prices
of dull times.
The new rates are retroactive Ito
date back) to 1919, and the Idaho
Power company will rebate about
$4,000 to people who have been
using current for pumping.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28

the peak load at another. What
looks like an idle voltage at one
town Is flashed to another town and
put to work. If all these different
Industries and communities were
disconnected and had their competi-
tive plants, their limitations would
cut their achievements down to a
fraction of what they can do with
the combined, connected plants, and
each one would have its idle current
going to waste at all times except
ing just when the peak load was on,
and by that Is meant, the moment
when the motor is starting, the mo-
ment when the car is starting, the
moment when the elevator is rising,
and the hours when the lamps are
burning. The rest of the time their
expenses would be going on and
their usefulness or their productive
ness would be suspended.
What these consultations of
many power companies have done
to increase the usefulness of their
plants, Is being done in irrigation
by building reservoirs and having
the water all managed by a central
office corresponding to the load dis
patcher. Some canal company is
shutting down its gate, some canal
company wants to raise theirs,
some place there is return flow COM
ing back into the channel. 1t in
creases the usefulness of the water
as bank Of deposit increases the
efficiency of money by everybody de-
posting their money and carrying a
check book. The bank cashier is
the load dispatcher, switching
credits from place to place as they
are needed, and always making con-
nections so long as the depositors
and the borrowers keep faith with
him.
If the power plants shut down,
or If the transmission lines 60 out of
commission, the load dispatcher
cannot hold the Industries to their
course. If the storage reservoir
breaks or If all canal companies de-
part from their plans or habits and
open their gates wide, the water
commissioner studying his tables
and indicators cannot protect the )
crops needing water tomorrow. IfAl
the borrowers break down or break
faith in their dates of payments, or
If the depositors all change their
plans or their habits and withdraw
their balances the same day and
stop depositing, the cashier can no
longer protect against a breaking
down of the financial machine and a
panic and wholesale losses follow.
The proposal to establish the
American Falls reservoir is to multi
ply the usefulness Of water as thcf
Idaho Power company has multi
piled the usefulness and cut out the Z
waste In electrical energy by con-
Meeting their string Of power plants
and sub-stations and keeping load
dispatchers on the job twenty-four
hours every day in the year. When
the people again adopt the habit of
banking what little money they
have, and writing checks carefully
on their bank balances, 1t will do
considerable to relieve the present
money stringency.
To be continued
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28

In the upper part OF the upper
district it is nearly uniform turnout
the year. AS spring opens, and peo-
pie use less current for lighting and
heating, others use more for power
purposes, especially for pumping
water for irrigation. During the ir-
rigating season the -four mills use
less, and as the irrigation ends, the
Touring mills get to running night
and day, farmers pump water for
stock and use motors for grinding,
and the large system can keep their
product working at something
nearly all the time. The small sys-
tenn such as town would install for
lighting and power purposes within
the town limits, could not keep its
product working thru the summer
months and the cost of 1t merely for
winter use would be higher.
Lower down the valley, they do a
lot of mining with electric power,
and a great deal of pumping for IT.
rigating. They have some Gamer
les, some packing houses, some
quartz mills and the Boise Traction
company operate q fleet of street
cars and the interuban roads have
electric power and electric head
lights and coach lights, so they are
heavy consumers all the year, but
heaviest in winter, due to the lamps
on the cars all evening. If small
system furnished current for the
street cars and interuban cars, 1t
would have to keep generating at a
tremendous waste, because some of
the cars are starting and some are
running practically all the time. 1t
some times happens that all Of them
or large number of the fleet are
starting at the same moment, and 1t
takes a great amount of power to do
it. The plant would have to keep
generating enough all the time to
meet such emergency, and the rest
of the time it would be wasted.
There are elevators in the large
buildings carrying passengers and
carrying freight in warehouses, and
some of them are rising all the time
and drawing heavily on the surrent,
and at times they may be making
the heavy draft just when the cars
are making the heavy draft. If one
power company furnished the cars
and another company furnished the
elevators, there would be a double
waste by each one generating
enough for the heaviest drafts that
were liable to be made upon them.
Then there are all the industrial
plants such as printing houses, mills
and other things that keep drawing
according to their needs, and each
one has it's moments of heavy
drafts. But after a car starts it
keeps going on less current. After
a printing press starts it keeps 60
ing on a smaller current. After an
elevator lifts its load to the top of
the building and stops, it draws less
while standing and while descend
ing. When mill shuts down at 81
o'clock it sets its current free to
serve at other things during the
night when the draft is naturally
heavy for lighting buildings, electric
signs and street lights. Then there
are all the little drafts for heating
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28
UTILITIES COMMISSION
TRIMS THE POWER TRUST
CONTINUED from Page One)

the system. If they sacrificed
money at the rate of paying 81 fol
one dollars actual value of today
then 81 is deducted and 81 IL
counted in as entitled to receive re.
turns If it is actually part of the
investment turning out or delivering
service Over million and hall
was deduced for this. The hour
they paid more than a property was
worth, that hour they lost their
money and that ends it. a
Where a plant was operated at a
loss while developing the business,
the loss was carried on their books
as money invested. When it got to
where 1t paid its way, when it re-
Quired no help from any source to
keep it going, the total that 1t has
cost for creating it and the total
that had been lost in operating 1t,
were combined as the amount actu-
ally invested in it. The commission
said that was not sound investment
and that the company was not en-
titled to recover what it had lost.
Farmers and mercantile firms have
such losses and the states does not
guarantee their money back nor any
interest or returns of any kind on
them, so all such claims were de-
Quoted as not being entitled to go
into the working capital column.
The company keeps about $780,
600 invested in supplies, and sup
plies are as necessary as stock Is to
a store, but the commission decided
that they have been carrying a
larger stock than will generally be
necessary. and allowed 100000 as
fair investment for them to re-
ceive returns on for such purpose.
In supplying power for pumping
water on irrigation projects, very
low rates had been made, probably
on the theory that the increased
consumption at the new homes for
light and other purposes would
eventually make profitable custom
ers,, but the company asked that
higher rate be allowed than they
have been receiving for pumping.
The commission considered that the
settler had gone in with the under
standing that he could have power
at certain rates, and with all his
other disappointments as to expense
and income from his new lands, the
state had no right to guarantee re-
turns to the power company when it
could not guarantee returns to the
settler for investments he had made
in equally good and useful or neces-
sary things that had not brought
him returns. 1t says the power
company must go on furnishing the
power If the settler wants it, and
that to raise the rate might put the
settler out of business and it would
be breaking faith with him. The
commission, therefore, allows the
company smaller return on irriga-
lion equipment than on other equip
hnent, seeking to preserve the pro-
portion they found in the beginning
If the enterprises. They set out a
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28
Kinney Mercantile
Company


water, for cooking, ironing, running
washers, and last and perhaps least
the girls curling irons. All Of
these things and many others that ]
have not thought Of, make their re.
spective drafts on some power plant
and were it not for the big system
and their means of equalizing the
draft, wcNld swamp it unless it had
big margin for what is called "the
peak load"
The Great Equalizer
Most Of these power plants and
distributing centers are connected
with transmission lines so that they
form reservoir and equalizer. As
the different customers start using
and stop at will all over a city, they
average up in general way. So do
the different industries in the differ
ent parts Of the valley, and by hav-
ing them all connected for hundreds
Of miles and substations to take up
the slack and distribute back and
forth according to drafts, they make
the idle current in one locality give
lift in the hour of heavy draft In
another locality. They have a load
dispatcher in the central sub-station
at Boise, whose business it is to
watch the needs Of the whole system
and dispatch surplus power from
one point to where the draft is
growing greater. Experience guides
them SO they know pretty we'll in
advance just when the loads must
surge one way or the other and con-
nections are made accordingly. Day
and night dispatcher sits at his
table watching the indicators and
receiving signals and phone calls,
flashing the equivalent of the COM
bined strength of a thousand horses
and mules from town to town, and
applying their strength instantly
and without jar. If 5000 horses,
(horsepower) are laid off at Boise
at midnight from the street cars and
5000 from the interurbans and
1000 from the elevators, and the
Jarbridge mines in Neveda want a
thousand of them till sunrise, and
the Gem Irrigation district in Idaho
wants 5000 till o'clock in the
morning and the King Hill Irriga-
ton project wants 5000 till z
o'clock in the morning, and Silver
City, Idaho, wants to pump water
out Of mine with 500 till 4 in the
morning, and the Cornucopia mine
in Oregon wants 500 for four hours
and the city pumping plants of three
towns want 500 each for pumping
till sunrise, the dispatcher can fill
all their orders and still have those
teams back in Boise to start the
street cars and the iterurban cars
as they 60 on in their turns, at 5
o'clock, at o'clock and 7 O'Clock,
and as the city lights are turned off
in the morning hours he has surplus
Tor starting the activities of the
day that call for current in different
drafts as people go to work in their
various Industries.
The various generating plants
pour their electrical energy into the
big reservoir, so to speak, and the
consumers draw from the reservoir
and there is always plenty. The
surplus at one plant takes care of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28
Chat On Electricity
Continued from page one

tional expense in the estimates, and
I wondered If the power company
was really taking advantage Of
them.
I find that all over town they put
in transformers about every 600
feet deliver current as much as 800
feet in every direction because the
houses and customers are close to-
gether, making in some places a
dozen and in some places hundred
customers served from one trans
former. That cuts down the cost of
service per consumer and on the
farm the cost must be several times
as high. Men on the country lines
have talked to me about such diff
ferences frequently and l was puz-
zled over something that anyone
would think I should have reasoned
out, with the thing being demon
strated all about me. But probably
you had the same chance to reason
1t all out-did you do it? You have
seen the black Jumps connected with
the cables high up on the poles and
you probably knew they were trans
formers and that the line men call
them bugs, but that is about as
far as the average person follows
the problem.
: High Cost to Farmers
In studying the farmers case,
about all had ever heard men talk
about was the cost of the wire that
it takes to reach to their buildings,
and that is about all that ever got
in my talks with the power men
until recently happened to get this
other connection. Blackfoot men
who seemed to know considerable
about power plants have had me
agitated good army times over the
price per kilowat we are paying for
current, in the face of the offer of
some other company to deliver cur
rent in wholesale to the city limits
for about one-fourth or one-fifth of
the price we are paying, and let the
city distribute it. l thought that
all we had to do was to run a wire
to each house from the nearest cable
and turn the water thru the pen
stock at the power house and let 'er
buck. I thought the main part of
the investment was for the power
house and its equipment and the
pole line and cables to carry it to
the consumers-and the poles are a
good ways apart and last long
time. Finally it became impressed
upon me that there must be a sub
station and transformers and a lot
of other equipment that don't
know the name Of yet. Now find
that there must be smaller trans
formers every 600 feet all over the
town, and there are meters and
other things that do not at this !
time seem to impress me much, yet /,
they probably cost money and they
probably wear out or get destroyed
sometimes.
T. l.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28
Economy of Volume

The Snake river valley from
Blackfoot down to Thousand
Springs, considered as the upper
power district, and from there down
to the Oxbow tunnel on the Oregon
line, considered as the lower dis
trict, do not have the same demands
upon them for current in winter and
summer.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-12-28

that 1t costs the Idaho Power COM
pany rs cents a customer to take
care of these expenses, so that the
customer that pays rs cents a
month pays only for the service Of
taking care of his account and
everything but the current he uses.
If he pays a dollar, he pays Is cents
on current. This is the average of
fifty-seven towns and vicinities
served. This being true, it shows
why people can sell electricity at
wholesale so much cheaper than
they can deliver 1t at retail and take
care of all these accounts and the
distributing systems. l have heard
that the government at Minidoka
sells current to people at about 21s
cents kilowat, and we pay so much
more than that, thought we were
being taken advantage of. The
question came up before the utilities
commission last winter, and it was
shown that the ordinary community
that pays a wholesale price of IN
cents a kilowat and then does its
own distributing and attends to all
that goes with it, pays as much in
the total as the retail rates charged
by the power trust, small system
being so much more expensive to ad-
minister than large system. A
large system can sell current and
make profit at price that would
bankrupt a smaller system, and yet
render a better and more stable SER
vice. OF course that applies to al
most any kind Of business to some
degree, but with a power company
it has different features from those
of any other commodity I know Of,
and it is worth studying. Here are
some of the differences I happened
L
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-22

Over 100 other styles of French,
Bavarian, Czecho Slovakian,
English and American porcelain
sets, ranging from 81 to 1903
pieces-all at savings Of 40fc.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-22
'RED' WANTS new
\ CHANCE At CROWN
Proposes Contest With Balti-
more Boy With All Girls
4 Kept From Scene
NEW YORK MCKEE EASY

'Red" Stoddnrt. marble shooting
champion Of Philadelphia, who was dc.
fcated by frankie McQuadc. the Bal,i-
more wizard. in close contest for the
national title on City Hall plaza Sutur-
day, still thinks he is the better man
and will challenge the Southcrncr +, Il
return match on neutral grounds.
Red points out that hc lost only
BY the margin of two marbles. - to
%. and says tho national champion was
enabled to beat him out in the last few
!, minutes of play through the sudden
slump of Babe Ruth. the feminin"
star from Newark. y. j.. who went all
to pieces and let frankie garner most
Of the booty in tho concluding round.
1t is also the contention Of the local
phenom that he lost murn ground in
attempting to dislodgc II marbl" which
became half buried in the ground when
somebody stepped Oh It. Tie mentions
no names but h" knows he didn I step
on it himself. and tho only other per.
son in the ring was Niciic MarhotI,
the New York cntrant.
For these and numerous othCr rca-
sons Red feels himself cntitlcd to
another chanc" at the national cham
pionship. and he is preparing therefor"
to throw down the gage OF battle i'll III"
near future. EIc would like 10 play
frankie on the Fourth of July on any
ground and at any hour. his sol"
reservation being that there be no
women in the affair.
Comparisons. while odious. often ar"
Interesting. and "Rrd' has his own
ideas of the relative abilities of his late
opponents. Next to himself he thinks
Frankie tho best shct in the contest.
with the Newark girl third.
"Shc's n pretty good shot. he ad.
mitted, but this guy from New York
Huh. He wasn't worth shooting
against. He couldn't shoot at all. He
was fierce. wouldn't want to play
him again
Boy Week came tn suitable con-
cluson yesterday with THE Boy. in
the Church" Day. in which ministers
made boys and their problems the sub.
iect of their discourses in virtually all
The churches of this city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-22
WARNER WILL PROBATEO
$4,000 Left to Each Of Two Read
ino Institutions-Resid to Kin

Two beoucsts of $4,000 each 10 in
stitutions in Reading. Pa. were dis
closed today when the will of Richard
Warner was probatcd. Mr.. Warner
died suddenly at tho Manufacturers
Club. March 5. The b"uuests are 10
the Widows Home and t" the Heading
Hospital. \ gift of $1,000 was mad"
to the Home for Friendless Children in
this city, the residue Of the estate going
to n nephew and a niece. Joseph n.
wanner and Elizabeth 4. Drasc.
The $50. 900 estate OF Jan" Craig
Biddle was held in trust for her sister.
Meta Craig Biddlc. to revert N tho
death of the latter to two nieccs. Meta
Craig Robincttc. and Emily Butler
Biddlc Churchman.
Four beOuests of $1,000 each We're
made in the will of Rebecca Lochheim.
They are to the Jewish Hospital. the
Jewish Maternity Hospital. the Jewish
Foster Home and the Young Women S
Union. 4 beQuest of $500 was made
to Keneseth Israel Congregation. the
balance of the estate. which totalcd less
than S1O0,O 900. was left TO her children
Harry F. Lochheim. Julius J. Loeb
helm and Clara l.. Eliel.
Other wills probated are those OF
Jane Kitchen. $1,000: Amelia {. White
$685.. and Sally J. Fctters. Sti;9O.
Inventories Of personal estates filed
were rs follows: Ruth Davies.
SS9O3.3O: Bridget Boyle. $Il39. - !:
Sarah X. Vain. S1J7, ,12s.33; Oscar +.
West. S5SO4: Samuel NJ. Moses. Sl1. =
Sol 10: Placido Erato, S26. .667.32.
Letters of administration were
granted in the estate of John $. Shen-
Gle. $50. 400.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-22
CONCERT TONIGHT
Police Band Announces Program for
This Week

Concerts 10 b" given in tho various
pnrts of the city during tho summer
months by the Municipal Band will be-
gin tonight. under the direction Of
Frank Maurcr.
The program for tic week. together
with the location of each concert, fol-
lows:
Tonight. CHRISTIAN street between SIXTY
second and SiXty-third streets,
Tucsday, Thompson street between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets.
"Wednesday. Reed street between Twenty
third and Twenty fourth streets.
Thursday, Eleventh and York streets,
Friday. NcCaCCOt Playground, Fourth and
Christian streets.
Saturday afternoon Belmont Plateau,
Paramount Park.
'NmCrICa,
], March. American Legion ......... ,,,,. T"is
:. Overture "Rnymund' ...,.,.... Thomas
., laD "Simpic Avur ',,,, ....., ThOnr
lh) "Aub"lc' .,,,,.,,,,.,.., Masscn"t
&. Selection, 'Nlasr Meody" ..... RombcrG
u. Tenor solo. selected. Mr.. Jcr" shaw,
z. Walt. "WeJjing # the Winds '.,,,I III
g. suite, "Ntluntis''
!, Morning Hymn uf Praise.
H. A Court Function.
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