Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1924 — Page 3

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.GASCOMPANY SHOWS GROWTH Annual Report Os Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. Is Made Business of the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company showed a substantial growth during 1923. according to the annuaf report of the company made public today. The number of customers served by the company in the thirty-six communities in which it operates increased materially during the year and the sales of both gas and electricity showed big gains over 1922. Gross revenue showed a substantial increase and the net earnings 1 permit the placing of a considerable balance in the surplus account after paying dividends to the company’s stockholders, which includes many customers who have bought the company's 7 per cent preferred stock during the last few months. The total gross income of the company for the year, ended, December 31, 1923 was $7,806,742.33r This was an increase of $1,135,687.27 or 17 perl cent over the previous year. The net income, before interest and dividend I deductions, increased $311,470.29 over 1922. or an increase of 16.18 per . cent. The net earnings available for dividends increased $545,379.65, or an increase of 67.41 per cent. The balance left for the surplus account, after paying dividends will be put into the property in improvements and additions for the benefit of customers and will at the same time strengthen the investment, behind the securities of the company. Sales of electricity in 1923 amounted to 124.771. 986 kilowatt hours compared with 98.753.401 kilowatt hours in 1922. This was an increase of . 26.018.685 kilowatt hours or 26.34 per cent. t Sales of gas also showed a good incease. Dur’ng the last year 3,257.224.500 cubic feet of gas were sold as j compared with 2.785.225 000 cubic feet in 1922. This was an increase I over 1922 of 471.999,300 cubic feet, or 16.94 per cent. The number of customers using electricity increased 14.77 per cent: and the number of customers using gas increased 6.18 per cent. These I increases were due to the general ■ growth of the communities which are| . (servfd by the company, together I with the increased activity of the. company which for the last six | months has been under the manage-1 went of Samuel Insull and associates. The number of electrical customers at the close of 1923 wa« 33.016 compared with 28.767 in 1922 and 24.773 in 1921. Gas customers at the end of 192.3 totaled 91.861 compared with 66,516 in 1922 and 81,499 in 1921. Mr. Insull in reviewing the business and achievements of the year in the annua! report says in PafU "During the year the installation at Lafayette, of u 2,500 turbogenerator was completed. This installation doubles the producing capacity of the company’s generating plant at Lafayette. and makes possible substantial new business extensions. "Plans were completed for the erection at Hnnunond of a new sub-station This Installation will insure adequate service to Michigan City, and permit the increase of wholesale power sales. A 33.000 volt transmssion line was completed from the Indiana-Illi-nois, state line to the site of the Hammond sub-station. j "Additional facilities for Improving gas service were provided at Michigan Cty. South Bend and Ft. Wayne. "App'oxlmately 42 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines were built during the year, and 42 miles of various sixes of gas mains were laid. "In order to develop and establish the most cordial and mutually satisfactory relations with customers and 1 the public, a department of public re- i

lattens has boerr organized. Publicity in given to uffuirs of the company by advertising and the use of other methods, resulting in a better know! edge of the company’s service and policies by its customers and tbe public. 'The company has adopted the policy of selling its preferred stock to customers and employes. During the year, 10.591 shares were sold to 3.360 individuals. Os the shares sold, 7.229 were fully paid for and 3,362 were sold on the installment plan." The company’s balance sheet shows that its total assets amounted to $36.589,847.21 at the close of the year. . -■ —o— —- SCHOOLS TO HAVE NEW SYSTEM OF ACCOUNTING Indianapolis, Mar. B—What is termed the "greatest improvement in forty years" in the system of school accounts to be used by every town and city in the state is now in process of preparation by Leonard B. Job .assistant state superintendent of public instruction. The forms, which provide a uniform method of accounting will be sent to the printer shortly. Job said . today. The 'system is the outcome of a' I conference in Gary of a committee of the Indiana town and city superinundents association. It will be Installed August 1 through the state. Job said. Dr. Frank Phillips, federal bureau of education. Washington, who attt nded the Gary conference, predict ed that Indiana would lead in modern financial accounting under the plan. Not To Submit Income Tax Returns In Probe (United Press Service) Washington, March 7. —President Coolidge today notified the senate he Icould not submit to the oil investigating committee the income tax reurns of Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Doheny and Albert B. Fall, as requested by the > s -nate in the McKellar resolution. Mr. Coolidge said he had been adI vised by Acting Attorney General Seymour that submission of these r® turns to the committe would violate the law. He added that he would take up with Secretary of the Treasury Mellon revision of treasury regulations ! so as to permit him to give the comndttte the data asked for. — ■ o FARM PRODUCTS VALUED AT $12,204,000,000 Washington. March B—Crops, ani-n-alt raised, and livestock products of American farms were valued at $12.2D4.U00.000 last year, the Department of Agriculture aunounced today in a preliminary estimate. This was $960.090,000 more than in 1922. The total includes $9,953,000,000 for crops and tu.111.000.000 for animal products, less an allowance of 13.86u.000.0v0, tbe estimated value of crops fed to live stock. Value of the various crops was: Cereals. $3,793,000,000; cotton, lint and s<*ed, $1,769,000,000; hay and forage. $1,480,000,000; vegetables. $ 1.089.000,000; fruit and fruit products, $681,000.000; farm forest products, $318,000, 0)0.; tobacco. $299,000,000; legume seeds. $175,00,000; sugar and syrup crops, $142,000,000; seeds for planting, clover, etc, $38,000,000; flax fiber and seed, $37,000,000, and other crops, i $132,000,000. Oistrsss Os Wheat Growers This distress of wheat growers is strikingly shown, the department said, by the 1923 wheat value estimate of $726,000,000, compared with 1874.000,000 In 1922, and with $2,080,000,000 in 1919. Value of livestock products was: Animal* raised. 12.397.000,000; dairy products, $3.5(6.000.000; poultry pro ducts. $1,047,000,000; wool. $87,000.000; bee products, $11,000,000; and other animal products. 13,000,000. —- ■ - O' "

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