The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-03-09

STRIKING progress IN the electr1flca
ton of American industry is shown
by the figures compiled by the U.
Bureau of the Census.
At the end of 1919 there were il
use in the factories of the United
States 1,4S3,039 electrical motors, o.
nearly twice the number in use five
years before-772,362. The total hor
sepower rating of these motors was
1857, 1888 or nearly double the tota
horsepower rating of the motors five
years before. OF the primary power
used in manufacturing, 64.4 per cent
is electrical.
In that five-year period large pro-
portion of the manufacturers of the
country found it more desirable to
purchase electrical energy from CEN
trail station companies than to oper-
ate their own private power plants
The horsepower rating of the motors
run by central station electricity in
creased from 1917, 655 to 9,347 $50, a
gain of 5,429,0O1 during that five-year
period.
Iron and steel works lead the in
dustries of the country in their in
stalled motor rating and machine
shops and foundries come second.
The industries which use the most
horsepower and their motor power
ratings are:
Iron and steel work, 2,350,596 hp.
Foundries and machine shops, $780,
795 hp.
Cotton goods, S61, 500 hp.
Paper and wood pulp, 5S3,5S6 hp.
Railrad repair shops, 500,141 hp.
Electrical manufacturing 479,366 hp.
Steel shipbuilding, 427,654 hp.
Cement, 345,535 hp.
Flour and grist mills, 309,610 hp.
Rubber goods, 304,367 hp.
Forty years ago Thomas A. Edi-
son first turned on the switch in New
York City and furnished light and
power in small way to the public"
says George Drake Smith, Sales Man
ager of the Steinmetz Electric Motor
Car Corporation.
"It is long step from this small
beginning to the great central station
the largest in the world-recently
erected at Hellgate, New York City,
by the United Electric Light and
Power Company. In Chicago, the
Commonwealth Edison has commence
ed work on the construction of new
additions to their Calumet power sta
ton which will eventually give it a
capacity of 100000 horse power, even
eclipsing the present rating of the
great Astoria station. Over $28,000,-
900 will be needed for this improve
ment alone.
1.-THE rapid growth of the uses to
which electricity Is applied, coupled
with the great growth of our cities
and constantly increasing demands
from rural communities, has made |
of this kind necessary |
throughout the entire country.
1.-THE hydro-electric plants at Mag |
ra Falls provide thousands Of horse
power over high tension transmission
lines through New York State and |
The many other hydro
plants, wherever there is a constant ]
flow of water, prove that we are as !,
yet only in our infancy so far as cleo
trical production is concerned, and
that with time coal and oil will cease
to be the main factor, in the creation
Of light, power and heat, and will be
displaced by water power.
"In my long experience with public
utilities I have found the men and or
CARNATIONS controlling and operating II
This great industry, which requires so
much skill and integrity, to be of the
very highest type.
mot a single profession or indus
Try, in the opinion of the writer, can
show so many men of great capacity
and ability-men who so very unset
ish1y pursue their calling with such
/ profound interest that self is prac-