Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-02
WATER POWER ATTRACTS IN.
VISITORS.
ENGLISH CAPITAL SEEKS IN
INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN
WATER POWERS.
Recent Developments in tho Electrical
fermentation of Power Has Given
to Water Powers Now Usos
and Great Value.

whole world seemed within his vision.
From sun up to sun down measured an
empire of domain and possibilities.
No crowding hills shut out quarter
day Of sunlight in the morning and an
other quarter-day in the evening. God
be thanked for the prairies!
Progress has always followed the
sun westward ana in its march '.life
grows more intense and time more
potent"
Better ten years in America than
cycle in Europe. Two years in the
new West equals decade lin the At
lantic States
Oxen and horses dragged progress
through the old East, railroads rushed
it through the Middle States and cleo.
tricity is flashing it over the great
West.
In the East crossroads In time be-
came villages, villages grew to towns,
and towns, the fittest of them, eventu-
ated into cities.
Here in the West evolution has no
part in the process of building cities.
Conception and execution are the
parents, the birth is electric. Behold
the offspring! A city has sprung like
Minerva from the head of Jupiter full
grown and fully equipped.
Our cities have no history. The
East has three epochs Of time, past,
present and future. We have no
yesterday. We know only to-day
full of throbbing life and to-mor-
row blooming with promise. Two
decades ago American manufactures
were so insignificant that they ex-
cited only contemptuous consideration
in the Old World. Ten years ago Eng
land found herself successfully rivalcd
in her own markets by American pro-
auctions. The progress of manufact-
uring in the New West during the last
ten years has cQualed half a century
in the East. Who has the temerity to
predict the growth of the next decade?
Just now we find in Central Ne
3raska, $50 miles west of Omaha, q
young Lowell-baby and man at once.
In age an infant, in commercial and
manufacturing advantages an adult.
This young city has no forests in hun
dreds of miles, no coal fields in reach.
She needs none. She has power
measurably without cost and without
price. The Platte River, provided by
the Almighty and trained by man to
do his work, necessarily and tirelessly
drives the wheels of Gothen burg $
factories. When the men who pro-
jected and accomplished this great
work are forever done with this world
the Gothenburg water power will still
be blessing the people and enrich
ing the commonwealth.
Eminent engineers say the Gotheu.
burg water power can be increased to
any extent. The power plant has
been completed less than q month and
already the place is full of strangers
| seeking locations for mills and invest
ments. The rapidity with which West
ern people recognize and appreciate
business advantages is most import
ant feature in the Vests great growth
Desire and ability assist at the birth
Of opportunity. Accomplishment swal
lows up projection.
Situated almost in the heart OF the
great producing West, abou
cqui-distant from water transporta
ton by the lakes to the Atlantic anC
by the Gulf to all the world, why viii
not Gothenburg with its magnificen
water power be one OF the great mill
ing centers of the greatest cereal pro
ducing country on the globe? Thu
agencies of civilization to-day ar
electric. The rudo implements of tn
past have given place to the locomo
tive, the telegraph, the steam pillow an,
harvester.
The electrical transmission of powe
has given new uses and value to tn
old, time-honored force of falling
water.
Our water powers will this yea
more than anything else attract En-
glish investors. A water power to
day will be water power for centu
ries. Without fuel their fires vii
burn on forever.-Omaha Bee.