The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-02
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Perhaps less than two percent of the
water power of our vast country has vet
been utilized. The force now running
70 waste is destined to add untold wealth
and paay no mean part in tho nations
destiny. The timo has indeed come for
a fuller investigation of this most impor
tapt subject. Thanks to Sommeliere
and his associates; thanks to France and
Italy, whose money was at his disnosal. :.
we can to-day, and with great profit to
oil who will engage in tho business.
"bottle up" and transmit to places where
wanted, and use this waste force throurh
common engines, without necessarily
adding anything new.
To-day company for this purpose is
organizing in the city of Rochester, N.
7. 1t has purchased the Lower Gen enee
Falls, one mile from the railroad depot.
and Gun utilize 500 horse power. This
company will place pipos through the
streets, similar to the ordinary gas pipes;
these will always have regulated pres
sure Of condensed air, afrordipp power
to factories and workshops, and carrying
large profits at less than $40 per horse
power per annum for it's use.
Every other building-evcry dwelling
may have small pipe connecting with
the main, and then avail itself of the re-
cent discovery ut trifing additional
cost. Tho cooking can be done in the
Kitchen; gas light sent throughout the
house and never-failng streams of cold.
pure air, to lower the temperature aud
for ventilation, with no other trouble
than to open and close q small stop.cock.
Our churches need no longer bo closed
against the excessive hcpt Of summer.
The pipes through which the gas flows
to illuminate may in time be channels
for conveying streams of very cold air
regulating the temperature ut will.
By Tho discovery i'll both Europe and
America of machinery to be run by
steam or compressed AIR, the drilling ur
rock, ITS raising and removal, tunnels,
canals and all rock excavation, must i'm
the future be done by machinery. The
Burleigl Rock Drill Company, OF Fitch
burg, Mass, is building thousands OF
these simple machines, whose perform
ances are as wonderful as they are Ger
tain and of light cost.
The nations necessities, the demands
OF increasing commerce, the completion
OF the Northern Pacific Railroad, tho
steady increase OF populntion pcneirat.
ing the productive North west, will soon
combine to override all local oppositions,
and make indispensable tho construction
OF the Nlngara Ship Canal aud the other
connecting links through Lake Cham
plain and down the Hudson River to the
ocean. When this time comes. the
power Of Niagara Falls, by the mid of
compressed air, will operate machinery
to bore tho rock and rnse it from it's bed.
and the whole work will only afford
amusement for 100 mon for less than
twenty months, and, when completed,
the machinery used can be turned to &c
count in running mills upon it's banks
and the lakes, united ut cost SO much
below the estimate of engineers by old
processes Of work as to make its con-
struction certainty.
A cargo of G25 bales of cotton--tho
lirst ever sent from Charleston, S.. O.
was shipped on Saturday Inst to the sea
port OF Baltco Port, Russia.
A colored child named Sarah Howard.
fell into fire Mt Ford's Farm. near
Charleston, and died yesterday from the
effects.
Jonathan Murray died in Toronto last
week, III his ll2th year. Hc hud two
brothers, one of whom lived to 10, and
the other to 113
Instead Of answering Senator Blair,
the Radicals point at him as "danger-
ous." He is that.
The postmaster at Nashua, N. H., ad-
vertises letter for Thomas Whocken-
demotfescllauferponsky.