16-Foot Jones Oil-Gas Set, with Gas-Maker's Tables

A 16-Foot Jones Oil-Gas Set, with Gas-Maker's Tables
Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library



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nt division of its system, on account ofboth its scope and its revenue-producingcapacity. The climate of California, bothin tile coast cities and in the interior valleys, is well adapted to the develop-ment of a large gas business, especiallyfor cooking and heating; in addition towhich, the generally high retail pricesfor other fuels, such as coal and w^ood,encourage this development. For thesame reason, gas is being used in a con-stantly increasing degree for industrialpurposes. One consumer of this classalone uses more than 20,000,000 cubicfeet of gas per annum. The Company manufactures its gas ex-clusively from crude oil under a processdeveloped by its own staff. As is thecase in the steam-generation of electric-ity, oil is found easier as well as moreeconomical to handle than coal, besidesbeing cleaner and giving more satisfac-tory results. It should not be necessaryhere to inform our readers that the pro-duction of crude oil in California hasrisen enormously in recent years, from
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I, wlUi Kii.H-iniikii!. Iiihli 124 Pacific Service Magazine 678,572 barrels in 1887 to about 95,000,000barrels in 1913, with the result that Cali-fornia now leads the United States in oilproduction. Furthermore, this supplyappears to be inexhaustible, so that asthe facilities for transportation and de-livery are excellent and the Companyssupply is assured to it, under very favor- able terms, under a long term contract,this item in the list of operating respon-sibilities appears to be well taken care of.The Company operates 17 gas plants,distributed over its territory all the wayfrom Chico in the north to the southern-most limit at Fresno. With these plants,aided by a system of high and low pres-