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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1952
THE NEWBERRY SUN
PAGE THREE
Notice to Citizens of Newberry
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and Adjacent Areas to be Served by Natural Gas
The Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority has had a survey and engineer
ing report made for the installation of a natural gas system to serve your city
and the adjacent areas. A copy of the plans of the area to be served is on file in the
City Hall of Clinton and of Newberry, and anyone who is interested in inspecting
same may go to the City Hall to see if his residence or business establishment is
proposed to be served.
The Authority will, at an early date, commence the construction of this gas
system. The Authority must have the name of each person who is interested in
taking gas and the location of his residence or business establishment in order
to know who will receive natural gas service.
If the present plans have proposed a gas line up a street or road and suffi
cient people are not interested in taking gas to warrant the investment then
the Authority will eliminate these lines from the project. Therefore, it is necess
ary that each citizen be interested in seeing that natural gas is installed on his
street by getting all of the neighbors to agree to take same.
Anyone who applies for natural gas by signing the application will have the
service line run to his residence or business establishment, as the case may be.
The applicant must pay One ($1.00) Dollar at the time of signing the application,
and when all gas connections have been made he must, to get gas, make a fur
ther deposit of $4.00. Upon his discontinuing to take gas the total deposited sum
of $5.00 will be returned to the gas consumer, provided he is not in arrears for any
gas bill. Any person who does not make application for gas prior to June 1,
1952 will not have the gas line run by the Authority to his residence or business
establishment, and subsequently, if the person wishes gas he will have to pay the
entire cost of running the service line to his residence or business establishment
together with the cost of the meter and regulator, the total cost of which will
amount to approximately One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars. All applications for gas
are subject to the approval of the Authority and its Engineer, and no service line
will be run unless the Authority and the Engineer approve of same.
From all information which is available to the Authority, together with infor
mation obtained from the Authority’s Engineer, which information is based upon
the Engineer’s personal experience in constructing quite a number of gas sys
tems, and from observing the operation of same, the Authority is convinced whe
ther the purchase be for firm gas or otherwise, that the cost of gas.fuel is much
cheaper than the cost of other types of fuel. • * ^ ¥
Subject to change by the Authority at any time, the Authority proposesto
charge the following rates for gas service:
FIRM GAS
Domestic and Small Commercial Rate
First 300 C.F $1.50 Minimum Monthly Bill
Next 1,000 C.F. at. 15c Per 100 C.F. of gas
Next 1,700 C.F at 13c Per 100 C.F. of gas
Next 17,000 C.F at. 8c Per 100 C.F. of gas
' All Over 20,000 C.F ..at 6c Per 100 C.F. of gas
Cut-On Fee $5.00
Cut-Off Fee $5.00
Minimum Monthly Bill $1.50 per Month for each month of the year.
(No BTU adjustment)
FIRM GAS
Large Commercial and Industrial Rates
Option
A monthly demand charge of $3.20 per 1,000 C.F., based on the maximum quantitly of gas delivered to
the customer on any day during the twelve (12) month’s period ending with the close of the current month,
plus a monthly commodity charge of 28c per 1,000 C.F. of commodity consumption.
Demand Charge—Minimum Monthly Bill Minimum Term of Contract—Three Yrs.
or $100.00 a month whichever greater.
NOTE: This rate applies only to customers using more than 600,000 CF/per year and less than
200,000 CF on any one day. (No BTU Adjustment) •
It has been estimated that a customer who uses gas for heating a five room house which has 1,000
square feet of floor area, 9’ ceiling, an eaved roof without insulation, will consume the following monthly
and yearly consumptions of natural gas, and the resulting monthly and yearly bills by applying the rate
herein shown are as follows:
Month
Natural Gas Used for Space Heating
the above described home
Monthly Bill
July
0 C.F.
$ 1.50
August
0 C.F.
1.50
September
258 C.F.
1.50
October
3,216 C.F.
5.38
November
10,650 C.F.
11.33
December
17,122 C.F.
16.51
January
18,016 C.F.
17.22
February
14,936 C.F.
14.76
March
10,450 C.F.
11.17
April
4,460 C.F.
6.38
May
863 C.F.
2.35
June
29 C.F.
1.50
Total
80,000 C.F.
$ 91.10
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This results in a cost of $18.22 per room for heating per year.
Now let us analyze this same customer’s requirements and assuming he uses gas for cooking, auto
matic water heating and space heating.
NATURAL GAS CONSUMPTION
Month
Space Heating
Cooking
Automatic
Water Heating
Total
Monthly Bills
July
0 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
2,833 C.F.
$ 5.00
August
0 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
2,833 C.F.
5.00
Sept.
- 258 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
3,091 |CF.
6.27
Oct.
3,216 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
6,049 C.F.
7.65
Nov.
10,650 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
13,483 C.F.
13.59
Dec.
17,122 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
19,956 C.F.
18.77
Jan
18,016 OF.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
20,849 C.F.
19.32
Feb.
14,936 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
17,769 C.F.
17.02
March
10,450 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
13,283 C.F.
13.43
April
4,460 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
7,298 C.F.
8.65
May
863 C.F.
1166 C.F.
• 1667 C.F.
3,696 C.F.
5.77
June
29 C.F.
1166 C.F.
1667 C.F.
2,862 C.F.
5.02
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TOTALS
80,000 C.F,
14,000 C.F.
20,000 C.F. ,
114,000 OF.
$124.49
This results in a combined heating, cooking and automatic water heating annual bill of $124.49. By
. deducting the annual bill for cooking and automatic water heating the resulting annual heating bill is
$64.49, or $12.90 per room per year. These estimates are shown for comparative purposes only and are
subject to change due to local conditions.
In making other comparisons of the advantages of natural gas over other types of fuels, we offer the
following charts:
CHART SHOWING COMPARATIVE EQUAL COSTS OF FUEL
Equivalent Cost of other Fuels
to be equally competitive
Use
Cost of
Natural Gass
Coal
Fuel Oil
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Butane
Space Heating Only
$1.14 Per MFC
$15.60 Ton
1514c gal
1114c gal
Space Heating, Hot
Water Heating, and
Cooking
$1.09 Per MFC
$14.80 Ton
15c gal
11c gal
Spapce Heating (If
Gas also used for
water heating and
cooking)
$ .80 Per MFC
$11.20 Ton
1114c gal
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814c gal
AVERAGE MONTHLY BILLS FOR BASIC USES
Using present average costs of other fuels and proposed rates for
Natural Gas n
Use
Natural Gas
Electricity
Hot water Heating
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and cooking
$5.00
$13.98
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Cooking
$2.64
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- $ 6.06
Hot Water Heating
$3.46
$ 8.50
The Clinton - Newberry Natural Gas Authority
JOE P. TERRY, Chairman
It should be borne in mind that natural gas is made available to the consumer year in and year out,
whereas with coal, fuel oil or butane an order must be placed, storage facilities must be provided, and
adequate supplies periodically hampered due to strikes, shortages, etc. The price of other types of fuels
seems to have somewhat seasonal variations, whereas the prices of natural gas to the consumer are con
stant during the year. It must also be borne in mind that the retail rates shown herein are deemed ade
quate in every respect and should there be a change in the proposed rate structure it would be to the ad
vantage of the consumer.
The bringing of natural gas to your community will not only bring one of the cleanest and cheapest
fuels to you, but will also go far in developing many small industries within your community.
In order to know how many services will be required, it will be necessary for you to make an applica
tion for service. The sale of revenue bonds for the f inancing of this gas system is contingent upon the
Authority showing the bond buyers that a substantial portion of the citizens have placed the deposit for
gas service. Therefore, please notify your Authority of your intentions and desires to obtain this public
utility.