WATER POWER.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12585, 15 August 1910, Page 4

WATER POWER.

In view of1 the fact that proposals for the utilisation of the water-power of this Dominion are now demanding the serious attention of our Parliamentary representatives, it is interesting to read in "Tho Canadian Magazine" what Mr

Clayton Jonen his to" say concerning "the great silent force in Canadian dovelopmont," namely, tho electricity generated by her waterfalls and rapid streams. When the developments of electric power at Niagara are completed Canada will have 400,000 horse-power .. a, .. ~ „ .1 ■ •, c ior distribution. Near the city of Hamilton there is over 40,000 horsepower developed to run cars and factories, and at Hamilton 10,000 horse- „„„„■ i S d.rLvod from the fa ,H,, E water Soon there will be the development of -700,000 horse-power at Long (Sault. On tho Ottawa River there is 36,000 horsepower developed, and 407,000 horse1 ,l. ' .' ~ ~ power as yet unharnessed. On the i Winnipeg River, 75 miles from the city of Winnipeg, the city is building a power plant, and on this river one-half .„. ! . -T i, umi million horse-power is available. fThe power of fallmg: water carried 22,000,000 passengers last year and operated 140 cars on sixty miles of city tracks and forty-four miles of suburban lines ;. lighted 675 electric street arc lights, . t text + • fimrlJ opsratsd 100 factories, a 300-pound "high-pressure water system and the presses of three metropolitan daily newspapers having a combined circulat! on of over 80,000 copfes dn ily besides being the mam attraction for the location of thirty-three new industries in ; thirty-four months ending 1908. It is. estimate^ power «n b. soM by the city at .not more than 18 dollars a horsepower a year for a twenty-four hour day. Electric oower at this price means that Winnipeg in the future will be . the vast smokeless manufacturing centro of the great Canadian Jsorthwest. , Engineers sent out by the Canadian-' Pacific Railway report that ther© is ~«n,S h «^ in the O.^dUn j Rockies to run all tho railroads in the world. Seven hundred miles of track j xro to bs electrified by the melting "

snows of the mountain tops. Water-

power will be the most important factor

in Canadian progress and industrial de-

velopment