The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-10-31

| window at the County Treasurer S
! Office twice a year instead of month
! ly at the City Hall, but it all comes
out of the same pocket.
Q.-Will the Sinking Fund require
ments increase or decrease?
A.-The sinking fund requirements
on bonds outstanding of the electric
light plant at the present time are
reported by the sinking fund trustees
to be as follows:
For the year 5.....$113, ,857.15
For the year 1926..... 160,672.5O
For the year 1927.... 104 4,4O7.50
For the year 1928.... 105,712.50
For the year 1929... 77,91750
For the year 1930... 110,6225O
Each additional issue of bonds will
increase the amount of the sinking
fund requirements, and the citizens
of Hamilton will have to pay addi-
tional taxes to make up the efficiency
between the amount turned over
from the electric light receipts and
the sinking fund requirements, either
| by an increase in electric light rates
charged to the inhabitants of the
city or by means of an additional
tav levy. The money has to be pre-
vided by the inhabitants of the city.
Q.-Can the new electric light plant
be built for the $605,OO0 which the
city now has left out of it's issue of
S650,000 of bonds for that purpose?
| A.-The City of Hamilton has had
Froelich and Emery, nationally
known experts in Electrical Engin-
eering in its employ who have care
fully surveyed the city electric light
plant and they presented detailed es-
Inmates showing that it will require
one million dollars to erect a plant
with 5000 K. w. capacity and that
size plant will not supply all the
electric energy that is being used
today in the City of Hamilton. We
have several manufacturing plants
buying from 1000 to 1000 K. w.
daily 1t would require plant of
10000 to $4,000 K. w. to supply all
the electric energy purchased in
Hamilton today. The estimated cost
of a million dollars has been checked
and concurred in by another well
known electrical engineer, j. D.
Lyons. Inasmuch as Hamilton has al
most reached the limit of bonded in
debtedness it is allowed to incur un-
der the laws, how is the city to pro-
vide the huge capital necessary to
manufacture the electric energy, de-
manded today, saying nothing of the
future demands that are bound to
come from a utility that is growing
every day in service.
Q.-What is the condition Of the
present City Electric Light Plant?
A.-The present plant is worn out
and inadequate to meet the present
needs of the City due to the fact that
| the present units were installed in
1907 and are of the small engine
| driven type. The boiler plant oper-
ates at low pressure saturated steam.
These conditions make this equip
ment obsolete in comparison with
present day central station practice.
Present day central station practice
employs the use of high pressure
super-heated steam in turbines to-
| drive the generators.
Q.-Does the present plant furnish
all of the present requirements of the
distribution system
! A.-The present plant does not
furnish the requirements of the dis
tribution system. In the year 1928
it was necessary to purchase about
| 100000 K w. Hrs. in addition to
what was generated.
| Q.-How can the electric light
problem be solved to meet the present
requirements
| A.-This problem can be solved
in three ways: a. By building a new,
modern, up-to-date plant; ~ Pur-
chasing electrical energy wholesale
for resale distribution, or 60 Selling
| the present electric distribution sys-
(, tenn.
| Q.-Is the present distribution sys-
TEN in good condition and does it
lhave the capacity that is required?
| A.-The distribution system is in
poor condition, due to the fact that
the system needs new main arteries
The downtown district and certain
parts of the outlying districts are in
poor condition with very much under
size wires.
! Q.-What is the estimate of the cost
of rebuilding the main arteries of the
distribution system?
A-Engineers have estimated that
! this would cost about $105,000 and
$4,000 year for several years to
come, must be re-invested in the
property out of the revenues to take
care of deferred maintenance which
exists and to extend the lines into
new territory.
j 5Q.-Should the City of Hamilton
| purchase current in wholesale guam
titles for resale and distribution?
/ ] Alt should not, because the cost
Of purchased current would make the