Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-08-05
ELI PERKINS AMAzEDA AT GOTH
ENBURG.
Wonderful Water Power and an Eiee-
trio Plant that Astonishes

Every One.
GoTHENBURG, Neb, May TO tho
Editor of The Bee: Alter travelling
around the world confess that l see
greater surprises in my own country
than even in the Orient. To-day while
travelling through western Nebraska /
dropped into the new town OF Gothen-
burg had been astonished at the
rapid growth of McCook and wondered
at the splendid water power at hear-
ney, but Gothenburg amazed me. Here
is town that could teach late inven-
tions to Boston or London.
what has Gothenburg done?" yoa
ask.
why, she has run the North Platte
through ten-mile canal and made
mountain lake on the hills, The lake
is sixty feet higher than the town and
covers hundreds of acres. Pouring
down from the lake comes 40o,OlV'
horse power stream of water rushing
through the town"
What has Gothenburg gotT' you
ask.
"A commercial club that gives free
and reliable information about this
electric city TO every inquirer.
She has got central power-house
where turbine wheels turn electric mo-
tors, changing the Platte water into
electricity ana then distributing this
electricity for light and power and heat
over wires into every house in town.
One wire turns the machinery in
brass factory recently moved TO Goth
enburg from Cambridge, Mass. An
other wire runs into clothing factory
and turns fifty sewing machines and
another will soon run TO the big -FOUR
ing mill and knock out It's expensive
steam engine.
What else of Gothenburg
"Why, they are heating houses with
this electricity caught from the North
Platte. | saw a woman ironing with
no stove in the house.
What heats your iron?' / asked.
This little wire hanging TO the dat
iron" she said 1T is heated by cleo
trieity from the North Platte"
And there | saw eggs frying in a
pan on the parlor table and a coffee
pot boiling, while the bottom OF it was
so cool that IL would not burn your
hand or melt the varnish on the table.
''Shall make you some wheat cakes
without fire?' asked a Gothenbui ger.
lit will take too long" ! said.
mo, only a minute he said, as he
turned button and let the electricity
pass through the bottom OF griddle.
Then he threw tea cup full OF -four
and spoonful OF baking powder into
a half-pint of water, gave il quick
stir with a spoon and poured five cakes
into the griddle. The little puffs and
bubbles came on the cakes in minute
and in three minutes he had the cakes
steaming on my plate, and the cleo
tricity turned of again. Then he at
tached the wire to a boiler and an
oven and broiled beefsteak and baked
bread. This, mind you, was not in
Paris before the academiciaus, but out
in Gothenburg, beyond kearney, which
twenty years ago was the center of the
Great American desert Now the farms
around town and away on to Sidney
are loaded with wheat: prosperity and
enterprise is everywhere, and Gothen-
burg has given to Nebraska the most
wonderful water and electric plant in
the whole world. The electric plant
was made by Edison; the turbine
wheels came from Dayton, Ohio; the
electric cooking apparatus came from
Minneapolis, and the brains and pluck
and enterprise to do this--why they
are fourishing right there in Gothen-
burg. II seems almost like a fairJ
tale, but it is literally true.
ELI PERKINS