. Journal of electricity. e anempirical formula seems to have devel-oped whereby it may be roughly esti-mated that for every horsepower of in-stallation in the rural community foragricultural purposes, at least one-thirdas much power springs up in new man-ufactories to care for this product—manufactories consisting of dairying,fruit preserving, rice threshing, canner-ies and the like. Not alone is this sec-tion growing industrially due to thiscause, however, for recent statisticsshow that the freedom of country lifeand environment for the workers isleading the larger industrial centers toconsi
. Journal of electricity. e anempirical formula seems to have devel-oped whereby it may be roughly esti-mated that for every horsepower of in-stallation in the rural community foragricultural purposes, at least one-thirdas much power springs up in new man-ufactories to care for this product—manufactories consisting of dairying,fruit preserving, rice threshing, canner-ies and the like. Not alone is this sec-tion growing industrially due to thiscause, however, for recent statisticsshow that the freedom of country lifeand environment for the workers isleading the larger industrial centers toconsider with ever increasing favorablelight the establishing of future exten-sions in such districts as are being builtup under conditions of ideal service andopen-air life, such as those presentedin the San Joaquin Valley. But the major industry of this sec-tion is to be found in the oil fieldswhich are now being so rapidlychanged over to electrical operation. Asto how this increasing electrical load, li. 12. 16 13. 14. 17. A LAKEVIEW GUSHER The electrical pumping of oil is but one of the modern methods of economy whichare helping to preserve the store. A 10,000 barrels daily gusher was tapped re-cently by the Standard Oil Company, and not a drop lost. 130 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY tVol. 40—No. which today consists of over 2000 wells electricallyoperated, is rendering a war service in the saving of oilthat would otherwise be consumed in the pumping ofthis product, the reader will find conclusive evidenceby scanning the pictures and noting the emphaticpoints brought out. War Service in the Pumping of Oil Electricity in the oil fields saves men, material,and fuel—three essentials in helping to meet the pres-ent international crisis. Considerable investigationinto comparative costs of oil-well pumping by variousmethods has been undertaken during recent months,the results of which show very favorably for themethod electrical. S. G. Gassaway, in the GeneralElectric Review for August
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