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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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—Pa-cific Service completes the construc-tion of a plant that will meet therequirements of a community that DEMANDS service IN KEEPING WITH ITS expansion W. M. Henderson GAS, THE LOGICAL FUEL FOR HOUSE HEATING H.M. Crawford . 163 170 OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION 173 THE STORY OF CAPTAIN K. R. VARNEY 177 MISS LETITIA A. CURTIS—The firstAmerican woman to cross the fron-tier INTO Germany 178 THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV- jCE A. F. Hockenbeamer 180 EDITORIAL 182 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 184 THE PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 190 Index to Advertisers Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Go UJ ChapUn-Fulton Mfg. Co v General Electric Go • National Gity Company 4th page cover Pacific Meter Co ^ Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co v PeltOD Water Wheel Co v Sprague Meter Go iv Standard Underground Cable Co v Steiger & Kerr Stove & Foundry Co H Welsbach Company Western Pipe & Steel Co. of California iv Westinghoiise Electric & Mfg. Go vi Wood, R. r>.. & Co
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Companys new gas works at Fresno, at various stages of construction. PACIFIC SERVICE MAGAZINE Volume X NOVEMBER, 1918 Number 6 Our New Gas Works at Fresno Pacific Service Completes the Construction of a Plant thai is Up to Date in Every Particular and Will Meet the Requirements of a Community that Demands Service in Keeping with its Phenomenally Rapid Expansion By W. M. HENDERSON, Assistant Engineer, Gas Department THE first venture the gas industry at-tempted at Fresno was in 1883. Atthat time the place was a mere villagewith a rated population of about fivethousand people. The price of gas wasthen §5.00 per 1000 cubic feet and theconsumers numbered about fifty. For anumber of years the employees did notexceed three and these took care of thewhole system, works, distribution andoffice. The site of the works was at Mariposaand F Streets, and the location has servedthrough all these years down to date.Until 1892 the plant was run as a coal-gas works and th

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