Holyoke Water Power Company (Volume 15); Petitioner V. City of Holyoke (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... Q. How do you arrive, Mr. Allen, at these various valuations as per Mr. Main and Mr. Manning and Mr. Blood and Dr. Bell? The CHAIRMAN. I thought you were not going into the details of that, Mr. Brooks. I thought you were going to leave those out, as he followed the same rule, as I understand, that Mr. Whitham did. Mr. BROOKS. Well, I am asking him the question: I do not know that it calls for any details. The CHAIRMAN. Very well. Mr. BROOKS. It will be only two or three moments, anyway. A. Wherever the items which pertain to the water plant in the combined plant occur, for instance, in the rebate, the rental is brought, in Mr. Main's case, from $11,080 to $12,000. That is added to the cost. Q. Now let me see if I have this in mind. You have left the figures of these various gentlemen just as they were, with the exception of applying their figures to the running of the auxiliary plant only six days of 24 hours each by steam? A. That is right Q. Now you already have testified that there were omissions in their tables? A. Yes, sir. Q. For instance, omissions of feed water and for banking, and one thing and another. Did you supply those omissions? A. I did. Q. Have you prepared, Mr. Allen, an estimate of the cost of operating a 200 horse power steam plant with a steady load ten hours per day and 306 days per year? A. I have. Q. And what is the result that you obtain? A. The result that I obtain is a cost of $7,852.86 per year, or S39.26 per horse power. Q. That means per engine horse power? A. Per engine horse power, yes, sir. Q. The cost obtained by Mr. Main, as I recall it, per engine horse power was $25.32? A. Yes, sir. Q. And what, in obtaining that cost per horse power, did Mr. Main leave out? A. The cooling tower, the cost of the cooling tower and feed ...