The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-07-10
Natural Gas Cheaper
Says B. B. Kahn In Letter
To Mayor and Council

SO efficiently for the burning of man
ufactured gas, unless complete re-
building of certain features of the
range were accomplished.
4th. The statement has been made
that it is to the best interest of
Hamilton to contract for manufac-
tured gas because 10 year contract
is offered by the Hamilton Furnace
Company, whereas the Columbia Gas
q &Electric Company has only offered
a fve-year contract, and that in all
probability an advance in the natural
gas price at the expiration of the
fve-year period would be asked for
Let us assume that it is true, that if
a contract were made with the
Columbia Gas & Electric Company,
that at the expiration of the fve-year
period, that an advance of SO per cent
were asked for in the price of the gas
AS far as the citizens of Hamilton are
~ NOuiO OS w JilCli uC-
cided advantage to face a situation
of this kind as the cost of their gas
over the 10-year period would be
materially lower by contracting with
the Columbia Company rather than
contracting for manufactured gas at
the rates stipulated, for the reason
+bat hn icI
the cost of gas to the citizens of
Hamilton would be approximately go
per cent more for manufactured gas
than for natural gas, and for the
second five years and on the assump-
tion that the natural gas rate was
increased so per cent, the cost of gas
factured gas were supplied instead of
natural gas, would be approximately
20 per cent more for the last five
year period. The city of Hamilton
uses considerable quantity of gas,
and there would be considerable
saving to the municipality itself, by
of the gas over the periods above re-
ferred to.
Tell of Bond
5th 1t is stated in the report of
the committee that the Hamilton
Furnace Company is willing to give
bond to the city in the amount of
$500, 100000 for the faithful fulfill
ment of their contract. We have no
doubt whatever of their willingness
to do this in the best of faith, but
what would such bond be worth if
the Hamilton Furnace Company were
not able to deliver gas to the citi-
zens of Hamilton? The city of Ham
ilton might obtain money recon-
pense, whereas what the citizens
would want would be gas.
9Th When the Hamilton Furnace
Company built a plant at Hamilton
for the purpose of manufacturing pig
iron, it was evidently done without
the expectation of making gas con-
tract with the city, and surely with
out the certainty of gas contract
with the city The gas which they
will manufacture is to be by-product
of the company, and it is not i'm
probable that during the life of the
contract which they propose, it might
be improbable for them to operate
the plant for the making of pig iron,
due to a general industrial depression
or other causes. What would then
be their course as to furnishing gas
to the city, and could they continue
70 make gas III the volGin. required
% supply Hamilton, stp.' s up for an
4 nite periol . cohe .har they
would be producing without an outlet
fer this coke?
Firm Reliable
7th. The Columbia Gas & Electric
Company is one of the most reliable,
strongest financially and largest pro-
ducers of natural gas in the United
States, and there can be no question
as to their ability to carry out any
contract that they might make, and
it is very much to the interest of the
citizens of Hamilton to have this