Arizona republican., 1890-07-06

connected with the generation of steam and to transmit the energy in the form of current, so that all the user has to do is to draw off the supply as he wants it, just as he would do in turning tap to procure supply of water.
 ALL SORTS OF WORK DONE.
 Today electric motors in different parts of the country are running feed cutters in stables, and are also used to brush the horses down. Others are used to run butter churns. Not far off in the same street they are busy chop ping up meat in sausage factories or making whips, or picking hair, or saw ing stone, or making pens, or driving jewellers lathes. Some are busy mak- ing watch-case machinery, and others in making shoes. Not few of them are in use by opticians for grinding glasses, while others have their merits sung in shrill Italian as good peanut roasters. In the liquor business they have been found running bottling machines, while in the tobacco business they are not less convenient for driving the cigarette ma chimes or making cigar boxes. They are very often used for grinding colors, and in one city of this state they have been put to the extraordinary use of squirt ing paint on photographs. Some of the neatest pieces of ivory turning are now done by electric motor, and if some peo- pie only knew that the pills they are so fond of were made by the same agency they would be inclined to believe that the nostrum had acquired an additional recommendation, In some cities so far has the use of electric motors gone that it is possible for a man today to drink at breakfast coffee ground and eat fruit evaporated by electric power.
 HANDY AGENT IN ALL OF LIFE.
 During the morning he will conduct his business with electrically-made pens, and paper ruled by electricity, and make his records in electrically bound books, his seven-story office being in all proba- bility reached by electric motor elevator. At luncheon he will be able to discuss sausages, butter and bread, and at night eat ice cream and drink iced-water due to the same electrical energy. He will ride all about the place in electric cars, wear shirts and collars mangled and ironed by electric motor, sport a suit of clothes and hat blocked by the same means; on holidays ride a merry-go- round propelled by electric motor, or have his toboggan hauled up the slide an electrically-tapped bell, sing hymns to the accompaniment of an electrically blown organ, be buried in coffin of electric make, and last of all, have his name carved on his tombstone by the same subtle, mysterious, all-pervasive and indefatigable agency. This may sound like wild and exuberant flight of fancy, but it is simply faithful statement of the manner in which elec- tricity is being applied to every one of the necessities and luxuries of life in America.
 UNIVERSAL USE ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
 Outside of towns and cities the use of the electric motor still remains to be developed beyond the merest beginning, but the compact, cleanly and economical little jack-of-all trades has already made it's influence felt in a large number of miscellaneous industries, and particu- larly in that of mining. The electric motor is already being employed in a large number of American coal mines, running pumps and elevators and ven tilators and more particularly in drilling in coal and mineral-bearing rock. Out West some of the uses it has been put to in mining are specially notable. Providence, in it's inscrutable dispensa- tion of things, has generally arranged that the best mines shall be the farthest removed from the water power best adapted for working them, and hence it often happens that valuable veins have been worked at loss or else only after mountains have been circumvented or bored through for expensive canals. With electric motors, however, water power in the shape of electric current can be carried up hill and down dale, and though it has been said that we can never grind with the water that has passed, the old adage is now strictly un- true, several instances being on record in which this has been done with the most brilliant success.
 THE MINING MANS LIEUTENANT.
 In not a few Western mines the energy thus reclaimed from water power several miles below is being carried back up into the hills, and there employed to run hoists and vanners, quartz mills, stamps, pumps, amalgamators and other appliances for which power is necessary. In one striking instance the electric gold that seemed to be utterly beyond In n,la q attached to pumps for laying bare the bed of river in which auriferous sand had been deposited for countless ages. The river course lay at the bottom of a deep gorge, where the use of any other machinery would have been quite out of the question; but portable little electric motor, mounted on light platforms, easy removable in case of sudden flood or other emergency, the whole problem was easily solved, and for the first time since the sun rose over California the bed of that river was exposed and made to yield up it's secrets and it's wealth.
 THE CURRENT DOING DOUBLE DUTY.
 In another extraordinary instance electric motors are employed in mining purposes in the Chollar mine, in the great Comstock lode. There water, which has already done large amount of work at the surface, is conducted un- der l600-feet head to water wheels at the bottom of the mine, which there drive an electrical generating plant. The current from the plant is conveyed by wires back to the surface and there op- crates six electric motors, each of 75- horse power, which help in driving the big main shaft of the mill, thus supple