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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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t was with great interestthat the convention heard him deliver anaddress at a general session at which ruralelectric service and the relation of electri-city to agriculture were prominent topics ofdiscussion. The report of the Committee on theRelation of Electricity to Agriculture waspresented by Dr. E. A. White, of Chicago,as Director. It was the second annual re-port since the organization of the nationalcommittee, since which time the work hasbeen enlarged by the organization of statecommittees for the specific purpose of mak-ing a comprehensive study of the ruralelectric service problem in its local appli-cation. Concerning immediate prospects.Dr. White said: A comparison of agricultural statisticswith the electrical transmission map pub-lished about one year ago by The ElectricalJVorld leads to the concluion that todayat least 25 per cent of our 6,484,383 farmsare within reach of power lines. For roundnumbers, take 1,500,000 farms. It may beworth the effort to attempt to secure a
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United States Secretary of Agriculture Wm. M. Jardine, who favored the electrification of the agricultural industry picture of just what this undertakingmeans. Taking what has come to be ac-cepted as a reasonable average, one mile ofdistribution line for three farms, at theconservative figures of $1000 per mile givesan investment of $500,000,000 to reachless than one-fourth of our farms. Datanow available leave no doubt that to useelectric service properly the individualfarmer should spend for wiring and equip-ment at least two dollars for every dol-lar which goes into distribution lines. Hereis $1,000,000,000. Adding these two sums,we find that to make rural electric serv-ice at all effective on less than 25 per centof our farms is a financial undertaking of$1,500,000,000, or four times the moneyspent by the United States in building thePanama Canal. Certainly an undertakingof such magnitude calls for ability of nomean order. Each group, agriculture, lightand power industry, equipmen

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