Pacific service magazine . making storage batteries also use itfor melting the metal used in making thebattery plates. One of a number of brassfoundries has a direct gas-fired furnace witha capacity of twenty-four hundred poundsof brass at one charge. From this the fur-naces range down to less than 100 poundscapacity. Fundamentally, gas is used because by itsuse it is possible to obtain a better product,or a larger volume, or labor may be saved,or for any one of a greatnumber of reasons, all ofvv^hich finally resolve them-selves into a lower unitcost to the finished pro-duct. Refe
Pacific service magazine . making storage batteries also use itfor melting the metal used in making thebattery plates. One of a number of brassfoundries has a direct gas-fired furnace witha capacity of twenty-four hundred poundsof brass at one charge. From this the fur-naces range down to less than 100 poundscapacity. Fundamentally, gas is used because by itsuse it is possible to obtain a better product,or a larger volume, or labor may be saved,or for any one of a greatnumber of reasons, all ofvv^hich finally resolve them-selves into a lower unitcost to the finished pro-duct. Referring again tothe tabulation of variousfuels given in the above,it is obvious that displac-ing but a small portion ofother fuels would increasethe industrial use of gastremendously. This dis-placement of liquid orsolid fuels is progressing,as cost analyses show thatthe point always to be con-sidered is not so much thecost of the fuel but whatStereotype melting equipment at the Oakland Tribune. Gas-fired it costs to use 222 Pacific Service Magazine The Late R. R. Colgate— Pioneer ofPacific Service A newspaper dispatch dated Sharon,Conn., January 7th, reported the death ofRomulus Riggs Colgate, one of the earliestdevelopers of hydro-electric power in Cali-fornia and who gave his name to one of themost important water-power plants in ourcompanys system. Mr. Colgate was associated with de Sabla andJohn Martin in theorganization and de-velopment of theNevada County Elec-tric Power Companyand the Bay Coun-ties Power Company,two hydro-electricenterprises that real-ly formed the nu-cleus of what is nowknown far and wideas Pacific Colgate camefrom an enterprisingfamily. His grand-father was the foun-der of the famoussoap and perfumebusiness that bearshis name, while his:father founded theAtlanticWhite LeadCompany, operating:a large plant inB r o o k 1 y n, N. Colgatefollowed the businessof his father, and when the National Lead Company tookover
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