Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-02-10
WATER POWER ATTRACTS IN.
vEST0RS.
ENGLISH CAPITAL SEEKS IN
INVESTMENT IN AMERICAN
WATER POWERS.
Recent Developments In tho Electrical
Transmission Of Power Has Given
to Water Powers New Uses
and Great Value


who had just arrived out West A
From sun up to sun down measured al
empire of domain and possibilities.
No orowding hills shut out n quarter
day of sunlight in the morning and an
other quarter-day in the evening. Coo
be thanked for the prairies.
Progress has always followed the
sun westward and in its march 'lift
potent
| Better ten years in America than q
Gle in Europe. Two years in the
new West equals a decade in the At
lantic States.
Oxen and horses dragged progress
through the old East, railroads rushed
it through tho 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 considera ton
In the Old World. Ten years ago Eng
land found herself successfully rivaled
in her own markets by American pro.
auctions The progress of manufact-
urng in the New West during the last
in the East. Who has the temerity to
predict the growth of the next decade?
Just now we find in Central Ne
braska, $50 miles west of Omaha Il
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 burgs
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 Gothen-
nurg water power can be increased to
any extent. The power plant has
been comple ted less than a month and
already the place is full of strangers
seeking locations for mills and invest
ments. The rapidity with which West
crn 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 food producing West, about
cqui-distant from water transporta-
ton by the lakes to the Atlantic and
by the Gulf to all the world, why will
not Gothenburg with its magnificent
water power be one of the great mill
ing centers of the greatest cereal pro-
ducing country on the globe? The
agencies of civilization to-day are
electric. The rude implements of tho
past have given place to the locomo-
tive, the telegraph, the steam plow and
harvester.
The electrical transmission of power
has given new uses and value to the
old, time-honored force of falling
water.
Our water powers will this year
more than anything else attract En-
glish investors. A water power to-
day will be u water power for centu-
ries. Without fuel their fires will
burn on forever.-Omaha Bee.