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UNLIMITED POWER SUPPLY CAROLINA DIVISION A VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER COMPANY ' ' "• * / * ■ . Introducing Ourselves to the People of Williamston, North Carolina , .. . •• * ■ - ; - ————■■■■■ _ » • " , 0 J '• * - » I v • - r ' The Virginia Electric and Power Co. is a Vir- install meters and be ready to serve Williamston Explanation:—Assume a residence in William gin ia corporation and licensed to do business in ' at any time The Virginia Electric and Power Co. s f on an average of 40 kilowatt hours each North Carolina. The Company's system serves a will rebuild, from time to time, the power distri- month for a year. Under Williamston rates he large portion of Tidewater Virginia and north- bution system in Williamston and construct same would pay $72.00 per year, under Virginia Elec eastern North Carolina with electric light and under the standards of present-day electrical en- trie and Power Co rates he would pay S4O 80 per power, jloes the electric railway and bus, and gas jrfneering. ye..r, an actual saving of $31.20 per year. In this £n™an Ice fwHrnaler Sl, » er P° wer »n«mited amounts sold under case, assumed at random, the reduc- The territory served includes Fredericksburg ItXto WniianSto? * Uon WoUld be fort^thlee 4B) PP er »* V nde \' Richmond; Petersburg, Hopewell, Suffolk, Ports- • • , the retail power rates of the Virginia Electric and mouth, Norfolk, Franklin, Boykins, and numer- The Virginia Electric and Power Co. offers to Power Co. a large majority of power users in Wil ous other places in Virginia. The territory now pay Williamston .550,]00.00 in cash for its complete liamston would pay (43) per cent less for their served in North Carolina includes Roanoke Rap- electric distribution system. Power plant site, lights than they are payingnow. ids. Weldon, Halifax, Seaboard, Jackson, the Hart power plant buildings, and power generating and Fountain Cotton Mills in Tarboro, Elizabeth equipment arc to be retained by Williamston. lf p nwpr City, Hertford, and Edenton. Contracts have T , v . § ... Qn j Pm . rp „ nn 4. nn i v been male With Scotland Neck Severn, I'endle- o ff ers to pay^so, 000.00 in cash to Williamston, but A comparison between the present small power ("^rffe°Kic^Souare Ketford 1 ewiston' thev wi " also )mt into effect in Williamston, as ra te of Williamston and the Virginia Electric and "*>.»» r er tt 1 ' TheS ,W Co. small power rate schedule No. 4 clear er transmission lines are being built into these '™ ssl . on '"!?• th ®" 2E5 ly indicates that on bills of $25.00 and under the places. The present population served is about ? , rates aie the same asai nowin effec Virginia Electric and Power Co. rates are a trac nnn in Richmond, Petersburg, Suffolk. Portsmouth, . * . u _ \xr;n;„*v, o f rtM Q^oii b, °' ooo , . and Norfolk, Va„ and Roanoke Rapids and Wei- tion higher than the present Williamston small ' With the new steam plant complete in Norfolk don, N. C , and ai'ethe lowest rates offered by the power rates. On all bills over $25.00 tneie is a the aggregate generating capacity of the steam yji irj n ia Electric and Power Co. material saving to be effected under the Virginia oil. and hydro-electric power plants of the Vir-•, - ~ Electric and Power Company's rates, ginia Electric and Power Co. will be 196,200 horse rOMPAIimON OF RATES power. In addition to the above the company ■ WffIrAKWU " U - Lighting, Cooking and Refrigeration owns water rights that will permit of an addition- Rates Now in Effect in Williamston Compared , al development ot nearly 100,000 horse power. The . y . . . ~, c , (ieneral The Virginia Electric and Power Co., combined -principal stations are interconnected by 434 miles Schedule No 1-B Rate Servit or Kc ß lighting and appliance rate for residences (power of high-tension transmission lines in operation or >cneauie ino. i 15 itdic. otrvice i«r ivcHiutuccs, . » a „ rl under construction serving an area of about 10,- Stores and Small Users for electric g , g, ni fV , 000 square miles. Ni a Mti oration, measured by one meter)-is much less than The Virginia Electric and Power Co. is under . || *2 the combination of the same rates now in effect in the executive management of the firm of Stone * c!S JJs „ Williamston. and Webstei-, which firm has been successful o|£ fi public utility operators for many years. il ; • 111 l Power for Large Users build e itVh^Xnoww trl Wii- 10 $1.50 min. SI.OO min. $.50 The Virginia Electric and Power Co. rate num liamston and thereby make available in William- •fO 3.00 1.70 • 1.30 ber 10, applicable to large power users, is the low ston an unlimited supply of power both for its ?? 040 260 est advertised power rate in North Carolina. l)resent needs and the needs of Williamston's fu- S'Vq 4 '2g 325 A forty-three per cent reduction on light bills, ture industrial development. v to a vast majority of power users in Williamston, As soon as the Virginia Electric and Power Co. 70 10.50 5.95 4.55 is worthy of consideration. This is an actual sav constructs its power transmission lines to Wil- 80 12.00 6.80 5.20 ing on the cost of an every-day necessity. liamston, Williamston at once secures a new and 90* 13 50 *' 7.65 5.85 n ~4. ww v... large corporation that will not only become a tax- 100 15.00 8.50 6.50 Payment to Williamston by Everetts foi povve payer but a "good citizen." The interests of Wil- 110 16.50 9.10 7.40 sold to thereby. Williamston will be accepted by liamston will become the interests of the Virginia 120 18 00 9.70 \8.30 the Virginia Electric and Power Co. as payment Electric and Power Co. • ~ ' 130' 19.50 -■ 10.30 - 520 in full for Williamston's street light service, wa if negotiations are completed between William- * 140 21.00 10.90 -r 10.10 ter pumping needs (present and future) and ston and the Virginia Electric and Power Co., the 150 22.50 11.50 11.00 nower for resale to Everetts. Virginia Electric and Power Co. will establish a 160 24.00, - 12.10 11.90 Offl cial3 0 f the Virginia Electric and Power Co. bi anch office in Williamston, an efficient crew of- Io IZ./U . , n i fi wiiHom men will be employed to maintain the distribution 180 27.00 13.30 1f.70 will be glad to meet w-ith the people of William system, make power connections promptly, ren- 190 28.10 13.90. an m details conceming oui der prompt service, read meters, make collections 200 30.00 . 14.50 10.50 offer. » »"J " % t , » *i.> r - . '■ f. . -.w; • '•" • / , CAROUNA DIVISION VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO. W. E. WOOD, President J. T. CHASE, Maimer THE ENTERPRISE WILLLAMBTON. W. C.
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