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LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGBAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED-EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made wthout permsion tom Coumbia University Librares             \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \n# TECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA\n\nFILM SIZE:          35mmBEDUCTION BATIO:      11./  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA  \nINITIALS:                  TLM  \nDATE FILMED:                    51.197  \n          23443                 \nTRACKING\\#:  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n3.   \nMAR 161927  \n# SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PUBLIC UTILITIESWITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MUNICIPALLYOWNED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWERPLANTS IN ILLINOIS\n\n308ZBx198   \nDY  \nAUDLEY EVERETT PATTON  \nB.S,Univeraity of Ilinois,1921  \nM.S,University of Ilinois,I922  \n## ABSTRACT OF THESIS\n\nSUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTSFOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY INECONOMICS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,1924  \nURBANA,ILLINOIS  \nI926  \n# SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PUBLIC UTILITIESWITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MUNICIPALLYOWNED ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWERPLANTS IN ILLINOIS\n\nBYAUDLEY EVERETT PATTON  \nB.S,University of Ilinois,1921  \nM.S,University of Ilinoie,I922ABSTRACT OF THESIS  \nSUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTSFOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY INECONOMICS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OFTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,1924URBANA,ILLINOISI926  \n闭『** 15+心e1  \nSOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PUBLIC UTILITIES WITHSPECIAL REFERENCE TO MUNICIPALLY OWNEDELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER PLANTS IN ILLINOIS  \nA public utility is a businss “affcted with a public interest”that is,a business whose services are intimately related to thewell-being,not of a portionbut of an entire community.It maybe said tobe an enterprise organized to supply a community withsome commodity or service in large demand as a general necessityor convenience;and in order to render this service it usually mustutilize public property,particularly streets and alleys.In general,however,a public utility is any enterprise so designated by law.The law usually designates as public utilities natural monopolies inwhich the interests of the people and the interests of the utilitycompanies are closely allied,and it usually subjects such enter-prises to public regulation.  \nThe electric light and power industry is one of the businessesgenerally considered to be public utilities.This industry is a com-paratively young industry.Although clectricity could be gener-ated chemically as early as I800,and mechanically as early as I831,the first commercial central stations to supply energy to arc lampswere not established until 1879,and the first central stations tosup-ply energy to incandescent lights were not cstablished until 1882.  \nBy I902,there were 2,805 privately owned and 815 municip-ally owned establishments in the United States;the investment inthe electric light and power industry was $504,740,352;and thenumber of kilowatt-hours of energy 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