Conduction of electricity through metals

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1915
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 180
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(15)90098-4

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reserves in Caddo and De Soto parishes; and in California to increased demands for domestic consumption in Los Angeles and adjacent towns in the southern part of the State, as well as for industrial consumption in the casinghead gasoline industry.

Of the record-breaking production of natural gas credited to 1914 it is estimated that a total of 2o3,IO4,358,ooo cubic feet, about 34 per cent., was supplied to domestic consumers at an average price of 28.04 cents a thousand cubic feet, and that 388,762,375,000 cubic feet, the remaining 66 per cent., was supplied to industrial consumers at an average price of 9.56 cents a thousand cubic feet. During the last four years the ratio of domestic to industrial consumption has varied but slightly. Formerly, however, a relatively greater proportion of the annual yield was supplied to industrial consumers.