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Identifier: pacificservicema1019paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Number 3 Yearly Subscription $1.50 — — Single Copies, Each 15 Gents Contents for August, 1918 A Peep at Lower Blue Lake, Alpine County Fronlispiece DISTRIBUTION OF GAS W.M.Henderson . 67 PLEA FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE WATER POWER POLICY J.A.Britton ... 74 OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES AS-SOCIATION 78 THE PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 85 THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV-ICE 88 EDITORIAL 90 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 02 Index to Advertisers AUis-Ghalmers Mfg. Go > M^o Water W)ieel Go iv Ghaplin-Fulton Mfg. Co v. Standard Underground Gable Go v General Electric Go ..! Stfi.ger & Kerr Stove & Fo.indry Go i General Gas Light Go >» Welshach Gompany . . ••;.-.• r Graham, Jas., Mfg. Go iv Western Pipe & Steel Co. of (-ahfornia iv National City Gompany 4th page cover Westinghonse Klectric & Mfg. Go v Pacific Meter Go v Wood, R. D., & Co n
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A peep at Lower Blue Lake, one of the Pacific Gas and Electric Companys cluster of power-supplying reservoirs in Alpine County, California, 8000 feet above sea level. PACIFIC SERVICE MAGAZINE Volume X AUGUST, 1918 Number 3 Distribution of Gas By \V. M. HENDERSON, Assistant Engineer, Gas Department A PUBLIC service corporation, a gascompany in particular, is similarin many respects to any merchandisinginstitution. That is, it is engaged in thebusiness of selling gas service, which isits commodity or stock in trade. Toproperly conduct its business it must or-ganize along more extensive lines than isthe usual practice of other trades. Thiscondition comes near to being the ideal,inasmuch as it eliminates the middle manand permits the gas company to produce,deliver and sell its product either whole-sale or retail, direct to the consumer.The result of such a system is natural, itpermits economical operation and satis-factory service, as the producer and sellerare one. The disposal of the pr

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