Rail-making certainly does seem to be easy when stated in its simplest terms; it also seems attractive from a business standpoint.
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(Leslie's Weekly)
WHAT ELECTRICITY MEANS TO YOU
ONE CENT'S WORTH OF ELECTRICITY AT TEN CENTS PER KILOWATT-HOUR WILL OPERATE:
- Sixteen candle-power Mazda lamp for five hours
- Six pound flatiron 15 minutes
- Radiant toaster long enough to produce ten slices of toast
- Sewing machine for two hours
- Fan 12 inches in diameter for two hours
- Percolator long enough to make five cups of coffee
- Heating pad from two to four hours
- Domestic buffer for 1¼ hours
- Chafing dish 12 minutes
- Radiant grill for 10 minutes
- Curling iron once a day for two weeks
- Luminous 500 watt radiator for 12 minutes
Hardly as old as a grown man, the electrical industry—including railways, telephones and telegraphs—has already invested $8,125,000,000 in the business of America. Its utility companies alone pay Uncle Sam $200,000,000 every year for taxes—seven out of every ten use it in some form every day. It is unmistakably the most vital factor to-day in America's prosperity. Its resources are boundless. As Secretary of the Interior Lane expresses it, there is enough hydro-electric energy running to waste to equal the daily labor of 1,800,000,000 men or 30 times our adult population.
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