Electricity

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 44.

Electricity.—The California Promotion Committee devote their July issue to "Electric Power for California." The price is ten cents. As showing how rapidly all other power is yielding to electricity, this item is given of Kane County, Ill.:

There electric motors have supplanted nearly all human and horse labor on the farms. The saving has been at the rate of $420 out of every $960 formerly expended. The work done by the fifteen horse-power motors installed includes sawing wood, pumping water, separating cream from milk, threshing corn, cutting fodder, plowing the fields, grinding apples, pulping potatoes, loading and unloading wagons, and a score of other things ordinarily done by horse or man on the farm.

There are now thirteen electric companies in California with developed power amounting to 95,230 kilowatts, or 127,610 horse power.