Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 6

| “ PAGE SIX Che Caspet Daily Cribune ADAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1925 UTILITY COMPANIES’ SHOW GAIN IN PATRONS IN YEAR EXTENSIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO LOCAL SERVICE GAARIED OUT New Building Erected by Natrona Power Com- pany; Gas and Telephone Extensions Represent Major Improvements _ Public steady inc parison of ponding date la companies in Casper and Natrona county enjoyed a usiness in 1924 and on tho first of the year a com- s shows a substantial gain in patr ear, Demands of a larger city were met by extensions ns over the corres- and ‘improvements representing a large outlay in expenditures. Assessed vé $7,840,000, of nies which do Natrona Power in New Business Home its $250,000 power plant for the first year and with the ad- ed facilities of a handsome $40,000 office building, completed last fall, the Natrona Power company has Just ended its year of vice to the Casper publ All public es function with service as the foremost considera- ir s and the Na {s no excep ‘o give adequate les must have mod ern and efficient equipment. Bince the installation of its 6,000 horsepower capacity addition at its new steam power plant, the Natrona Power company {s better able to meet the ¢ z trical demands of its ers, With the original steam gen ng plant capac of 2,000 horsepower and w reserve oll and gas engine generating plant capacity of another 2,000 horse power, the new steam turbine plant mare than doubles the capacity of f® little more than a year ago. Look- ing ever into the future, the plant has been so constructed that it can be doubled or trebeled if the need arises. Last year's business in furnishing lectric energy showed a steady and normal increase. The number of consumers a year ago was 6,382 and by the end of 1924 this figure had been increased to 6,700. At the samo time the fncrease in the amount of energy used amounted to approximately 10 per cent The office building constructed @uring 1924 was necessitated by the ever growing commercial business bf the company. The new building gives added sales department space, a large display room, adequate room for the accounting and bookkeeping departments and commodious and comfortable quarters for all depart- ments. On the second floor are engineering offices, a drafting room, an ¢lectrical merchandise storeroom, a Wbrary clubroom and an assembly room. The Ubrary clubroom was con wtructed primart!ly for the use of em ployes. It 1s accessible at any hour of the day and is equipped with a well stocked Mbrary of books and current periodicals of a semi-tech nical and technical nature of par- ticular interest to employes of the assembly hall the company ded for regular meetings of its employees—both for business and social purposes—which has greatly facilitated the work of the employees association. The addition of a kitchen with full equipment has added to its usefulness. In extending the privilege of the use of the hall to various business, social service and charitable organ- {zations as n meeting place for thelr Dusiness activities the company has further exemplified its primary idea of service to the public and the com- munity, Many such local organt- zations have already taken advan- tage of this privilege and have wel- comed {t as a long felt want in civic life. The officers and directors of the tompany ns follows Patrick n, president 2. P. Bac President and ®eneral man: W. L. Bler surer Ww. H x Expansion of Gas ©ompany Is Rapid Increasing its gathering lines by five miles, its city distributing ry tem by reven les of gas mains nd tion of public service corporation holdings in 1924 was ch $1,813,569 was represented by electric, gas and bus te outside this county. Railroad » county were fixed at $6 telephone its consumers to a total of more than 6,300, the New York Oil company expanded steadily in 1924 in its most important work of supplying the city with natural gas fuel. Three years ago the New York Oil company put in {ts initial system which consisted of five miles of gath- ering lines, 28%4 miles of main pipe- lines running from the gas fields to the city and 26% miles of gas mains within the city to deliver fuel to in- dividual consumers. Today the com- pany has reached the stage where it has sen miles of-gathering lines, 44% miles of pipelines frfm the field and a total of 62 miles of gas mains in the city. Proportionately as important ts the acquisition of a second gas com- pression plant during 1924. The com- pany now operates costly and effi: cient compression plants {n both the Poison Spid and South Casper Creek fields. These plants can com. press 15,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily, twice the amount of the city's peak consumption. Casper gas users during 1924 aver- aged about five and a half mijiion feet of gas consumption daily with the peak consumption in any one day teaching eight million cubic feet The increase in the installation of gas mains in 1924 is approximately 13 per cent, showing that not only is the city growing in population but that its people have almost untyer- sally adopted gas as h fuel. The company is supplying gas from 24 producing wells in the Pol son Spider, South Casper Creek, Boone Dome and Iron Creek gas fields. Only one new well was drilled during the year biit many of the wells were deepened or cleaned out to increase their prodt Naturally a large force is neces- sary to make possible the efficient service which the New York Oil com- pany has always given its custom- ers. The employes runs from 150 to 200 and a fleet of 20 automobiles and trucks is kept in constant use. The trouble crew and the executives sleep within call of an automatic sig- nal which, functions on any dimunt- tion of préssure. In the four years the company has been supplying gas here, the service has been interrupt- ef but once and then for the purpose of making a main Mne connection. According to the United States bu- reau of mines, the investment per consumer is greater for a natural gas utillty than for any other uttl- ity. The New York O!l company ‘has so far expended more than two mil- lon dollars in {ts main pipe lines, distribution system and in drilling gas wells. It has invested nearly four million dollars in lines and operative systems, Always looking to the ultimate Casper, the company has so installed its system that the pipelines will serve additional consumers by ex tensions without replacements. The distributing system in the future fs expected to eventually aggregate 85 miles of gas mains serving 8,000 con sumers, Telephone Company Has Big Expenditure Under a steady program of expan- sion that entailed an expenditure of $150,000 for new work in Casper in 1924 the Mountain States Telephone and ‘Telegraph company conginued arge increase its equip ch the service | inside work consist ed of the installation of four new local and two new toll switchboard positions which handle 600 addition- al s and provided for the increase of stations during the preceding 12 months. The company now serves 5,610 stations and handles an aver- age Of 34,000 local calls dally. The outside work was much heavy fer_and included the installation of See HURLEY’S Firs FOR Soda Fountain Supplies SYRUPS FRUITS CONTAINERS “Everything for Soda Fountains” HEALTH FOOD DEPARTMENT IN CONNECTION School Supplies Ice Cream and Candies Hurley Fountain Supply Co. Corner First and Durbin Phone 296 Refineries Behind Casper’s Ten-Million-Dollar-a-Year Payroll Bus Patronage for Year Takes Jump With an investment amounting to $135,000 and service ranging from Statement of the number of| | 10 to 30 minutes to all parts of the accounts of the Natrona Power| | city the Casper Motor Bus company cornpany in Casper from Decem-| |has established an enviable reputa. ber 31, 1919, to December 31,| | tion in 1925 ag a pubic utility. Real- 1924, isjas follows: izing that the maintenance of an ac- December 31, 1919. curate schedule is its greatest asset December 31, 1920. in public confidence the company December 31, has put out every effort in the way December 31, of dependability. The results have December 31, been gratfying and the support December 31, given the company by the general public has paid for the effort ex- pended,. i@ city blocks of 1,200 pair under | ‘The increase in busines during the ground cables; 10 blocks of 600 pair] year just ending was remarkable underground cables: blocks of un-'and the company hauled GROWING Typical Road Construction in Wy: Wyoming is noted for {ts fine graveled ribbons of road, a delight to the tourist or other motorist who travel them Every precaution, including dally inspection of brakes and other me- training of drivers is taken to’ in sure protection for the public. Safe- ty posters and bulletins are so plac- ed that they come under the eyes of the drivers every time they the office and in this way the com- pany operates with a minimum of The franchise under which the bus line is operating has years to run and the consensus of the public seems to be that term is ended the Casper Mo- tor Bus company should be granted a new franch ‘The company is managed by Wal- derground cohdult; seven bolcks of ] Passengers compared with 2,118,560 toll line cable and 87 blocks (equiv-|‘n 1923. The total mileage of the alent to eight miles) of aerial cable. | Usses in 1924 amounted to 386,398 The company also built a new Ine] and the company maintained 18- from Casper to Salt Creek, rebuilt | hour service every day in the year, the pole line between here and Salt| The work of greatest importance Creek and made many additional re. | ®ecomplished in 1924 was the erec- placements of poles and other equip- | tion of a handsome, brigk, two-story Western Union in Commodius Quarters At the end of its first year in its new and commodious quarters the Arkeon building the GROWING Gas accounts of the New York Oil company gas department show the following increase since installation of natural gas service in Casper: Year Number Union telegraph company 1s better equipped for public service that at any time since the company has been operating in Casper ‘The in- stallation of new automatic equip- ment that handles both outgoing and incoming business makes pos- sible greater satisfaction for its cus- tomers, and both more speed and ac- curacy. The office space and equipment already installed would handle the HAY ordinary business of a city of 75,000 population and Casper is. one of the GROWING — Statement of the number of telephones in use in Casper from December 31, 1919 to December 31, 1924: December 81, 1919 December 31, 1920 —.-_.. December 31, 1921 --_. December 31, 1922 ---__-. December 31, 1923 —. December 31, 1024 foremost cities in the country in tho amount of telegraphic service avail- able, proportionate to the popula- tion fl ‘The company employs 20 men and ‘women and the office is in charge of ‘W. F, Murphy, manager with Wont Beck as chief operator. - Telegraph as all other business in Casper, is seasonal and the com. pany’s business varies with the months from May to October, in. clusive, the greatest 1n volume, Dur. ing December, 1924, 57,082 messages were handled and the average per month for messages received by Cas. per people is about 16,000. All night service, installed a year ago, continues to be one of the greatest sources of service to the public. The New CHANDLER The cheapest high class automobile made. JOHN M. WHISENHUNT STATE DISTRIBUTOR Cor. First and Park Sts. EAST SIDE GARAGE Phone 79 NOLAND BROTHERS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GRAIN BEET PULP 728 East C Street COTTON CAKE FEED Phone 278 ment, Not taking into consideratjon men temporarily employed in construc tion work, the company has 80 em ployes regularly on its payroll, un- der the supervision of Harry D, Mc Cormick, the local manager. Statistics compfled in the local of. fice show that June is the heaviest month of the year in calls, recorged that the peak hour of the day is b tween 9 and 11 o'clock in the morn- ing and that Mondy, Saturdays and all days preceeding or following a holiday are usually the busiest Special attention {s being given to the welfare of the employes who have an assoclation, representatives of which meet regularly with the of ficials to discuss matters of mutual benefit. A rest room, whose furnl. ture includes a plano and »ho- phone, books and periodicals is kept open at all hours and a cafeteria in connection with the establishment furnishes employes’ with light r freshment building on Industrial avenue where the company is now installed. The building has outside dimensions of 100 by 120 feet and is large enough to house all equipmént Including the nine busses, the office, repair de- partment, an air tight paint room and a wash rack that will aceomo- date four busses at a time. As the busses on the streets 18 hours daily, repair work must be done between midnight and 6 o'clock in the morning. For this work six mechanics are employed who with the other 24 employes drew a total payroll in 1924 of $57,- 763.16. Some idea of the capacity of the company’s .business may be gained by the fact that the busses ate up 12 tank car loads of gasoline in the year just ended. The company owns one of the most valuable service cars in the Rocky mountain region with a specially built: body on a White chassis. The car dnd its equipment represents an invest- ment of $6,000. rr Dr. R. Masek, D.C, Ph. C.D. §. T. CHIROPRACTIC AND THERAPEUTICS 216 North Wolcott—Phone 2738 State of Wyoming, Gounty of Natrona, ss Mrs. 8, C. Slagle, of the'city of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles, State of California, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That the following statement is true in every detail. I was taken sick with a pain under my right shoulder blade, and was constipated, my skin was so dry I peeled all over. My body lookedglike bran had been poured over it.. I would turn blind at times and fall, and my nerves would begin twitching so that it seemed like every nerve in my body was in a flutter. I had such a choking sensation that I thought I had goiter, so I sent to a Goitre Doctor for advic: change climates and scenery at once. I went to Doctor Rogers at Franklin, N. C., and he said I had the worst case of liver and stomach trouble he ever saw; my stomach was bitter, I had » and he adyised that I should agg Casper’s Newest and Finest Hotel Gladstone Hotel a burning sensation in my throat, my blood was pinkish, I was so weak and nervous I could hardly stand on my feet, and my mind was almost gone, I was lost at times. I soon found that Doctor Rogers could not cure me, and he said it would do me ‘ood to travel; this was in 1916. In 1917 I went to Cleveland, fenn., and the Doctors there said I had Pellagra. J would turn blind and fall, the sweat would burst out on me, in and instant I would be as wet as if some one had poured water over me; my skin was dark, and I could see dark spots before my eyes; I was so thin and weak I could hardly stand on my feet, and my nerves was in a flutter all the time, and my rhuscles ‘were so sore I could hardly bear anyone to touch me, The Doctors there fail- ed to cure me, so in 1 I went to California for a change, for I was out of heart with the Doctors, The change did not help me; then I was advised by my son, Walter Slagle, to come to Casper, Wyoming, to Doctor Masek, a Chiropractor, and see if he could help me. I was discouraged with other Doctors, so I went to him. After taking a few adjustments I began to feel better, and to feel that he was going to do me good. I came here December 6, 1924, and began taking adjustments, and I now feel like a new person. I am putting on flesh, and it seems like all the old ailments are gone. I am feeling so much better in every way. I can give Dr. Masek the praise, I hope every one that reads this will give heed and go to’ Dr. Masek when in need of a doctor for I feel sure he can help the suffering; the old as well as the young. I am 57 years of age, and I thank God the day I came to Doctor Ma: ek. Signed: Mrs. 8. C, Slagle. Sworn and subscribed before me, this ninth day of Febru- ary, A, D. 1925, (SEAL) M. G. Pierce, Notary Public, My commission expires January 31, 1927. eee SEVEN STORIES OF SOLID COMFORT A Home Away from Home ENTIRELY FIREPROOR 175 ROOMS OUTSIDE EXPOSURE THE PRIDE OF NATRONA COUNTY, Moderate Rates MORTON K, FLEMING, Manager