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Excerpt from House Heating Fuel Tests
Article 1. Nature of Investigations. The amount of fuel burned in the average house heating plant is small compared with that consumed by a power plant, yet the very much larger number of houses and other buildings heated by inde pendent hot air furnaces and boilers make the aggregate of coke and coal burned by them no small item. A conservative estimate places the number of dwellings in Iowa equipped with house heating furnaces and boilers at not less than 100, 000. At an annual average fuel cost of each, which is also a low estimate, the amount paid out each year is 6% million dollars for warming the homes of Iowa that are equipped with such house heating plants. Other millions are spent for heating stores, Office buildings, etc., and for fuel burned in heating stoves. It is not hard to see the saving to the State to be gained by choosing such fuels as will save a few per cent on the above amounts, or by choosing such fuels as will reduce the care of fires and the damage from dirt and smoke to a minimum.
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