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FOREST GROVE PRESS, FOREST GROVE, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912.
The wooden bam in the picture covers ONE boiler, ONE engine and ONE
dynamo, or generator, which constitutes the entire mechanical installation
which provides electric light during NIGHT HOURS in the Grove. IF
ANY PART OF THIS PLANT BREAKS DOWN the entire service
will be interrupted.
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Forest Grove has Been Fortunate that Breakdowns
Have Not Yet Occurred.
The Service May Be Interrupted Any Time, Unless $10,000 is Spent
For Duplicate Machinery.
FACTS!!
FACTS!!
The recent report of the earn
ings by City Electric Plant show
ed nothing included for
A deduction was asked from this for
fuel on hand but paid for. But
a fuel bill was paid Nov. 14,
«mount
$
experience.
Railroading is not more complicated or
more difficult
for light if it is generated as you are now generating
it with an inadaquate installation and imperfect busi
ness methods.
IT IS A FACT that every small city finds the ex
pense of high grade bookkeeping an impediment to
their success in any of their laudable efforts to con
duct mechanical installations.
IT IS A FACT that there is nothing more difficult
than the business of making and distributing electricity
safely and without financial loss or high taxation for
1 , 820.00
light and power.
Profit C A N be shown by omit
ting expenses only.
IT IS A FACT that conducting a water supply
system is child’s play in comparison.
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536.25
If for no other
reason than the menace to life and property from
a poorly managed plant.
A
single accident costs
years of profits.
Question—How about fuel on hand
B EFO R E Jan . 1st, when report
begins?
This total closer to actual
usual
amount required for a plant of
this size
tricity is a business requiring special training and long
IT IS A FACT that you must pay a greater tax
Insurance
Interest
Sinking Funds
Rent
Upkeep
Service by other
departments
Fuel was charged for at
IT IS A FACT that making and distributing elec
IT IS A FACT that we arespecialists in the elec
tric field and have offered to the C l TY C O U N C IL -
M EN
a proposition which is in every particular
favorable to the citizens and the city.
2 , 356.25
Adr.
C. W. H I L L .- For W *»hin*rton-Orrron Corporation.
FACTS!!
If we receive from you the con
tract for supplying electric light
and power to the Grove, we
would install an equipment which
would be sufficient to give con
stant, ample 2 4 hour service. To
do this we would install ma
chines in duplicate and keep our
men in the town to look after the
apparatus and keep up the dis
tributing system. Our rates will
be less than the city charges, and
Meters will not be charged for.
Maximum rate 12 cents K. W .
for light, 7 cents K. W . for power.
Minimum month charge 75cts.
All rates decrease as quantity
used increases.
Remember—The city and the
taxpayer is relieved of all re
sponsibility. W e assume the bur
den* and guarantee results and
fair charges.