Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-16
NEBRASKA
CAN DO MANUFACTURE AS
CHEAPLY AS ANY STATE
IN THE UNION.
In the Morse Settlement of Gothenburg
tho Problem is Forever
Solved.

} While walking down Broadway in
New York City about noon one day l
saw a crowd of people that almost
blocked the sidewalks on both sides of
the street They were watching a
very large safe, which was being
hoisted by pulleys and ropes in front of
high building, evidently intended to
be taken into the fifth story through
one of the windows. 1t was at the
fourth story and l stopped with the
crowd and watched its hardly percepti-
bic movement.
Suddenly, without warning, the ropes
broke with pistol like report and the
safe shot down through the air faster
than my eyes could follow it. There
was great noise, the ground under
my feet shook, the crowd surged back
ward, some falling under foot. Men
and women screamed, and frlghte ned
horses plunged through the crowd.
Everyone was either awed or panic
stricken by the presence of great dan
ger. The safe had crashed through
the pavement into sub-sidewallx base
ment out of sight The force of the
fail had broken the great flag stones of
the pavement for many feet on both
sides. The plate glass windows were
shattered and even the show cases on
the inside of the basement store were
ruined.
The fall had been about forty feet.
1t was striking exhibition of the power
OF the falling of a great weight
at Gothenburg, Neb, they have dl.
rect fall tifty-threc and half feet of
body OF water heavier than that enorm-
GUS safe. 1t falls on n turbine water
wheel of the latest and best make. This
wheel supplies power enough to run
dozens OF the largest factories in the
State of Nebraska, and furnishes it at
less expense than the coal costs to run
one factory in Omaha.
The Commercial Club at Gothenburg
will promptly give information either
about the town, the surrounding coun-
try. or the water power.
BY electricity the power to drive the
largest mil in the state can be trans
United or taken from this wheel on n
wire not larger than Il clothes line,
one, two, three, Six or a dozen miles
away.
few years ago this was not possible.
Power had then to pe taken from
shaft, Later wire cable was success
fully used for short distances, but now
by electricity power can be transmitted
under ground, under water, elevated in
the air, in any direction, not only yards
but miles.
We are passing from the time of steam
to tn time of electricity.
Plans and estimates are now being
made to use electricity instead of
horses to draw the boats on the Erie
Canal from Buffalo to Albany.
Every reliable water power in the
country has been suddenly given a val
ne almost Inestmable. Either wood or
coal is indispensable in making steam.
Nebraska has no coal mines, no forests.
Cost of freight makes wood not possible
as fuel and coal very expensive. The
place that has a water power needs
neither one.
The water power places will in the
future do the manufacturing, will be
the best markets and rapidly make the
largest cities. The rush to Gothenburg,
which has had its power plant COM
pleted but little more than d month,
shows how kecnly alive the western
people are to business advantages and
commercial developments.
CuAS, l. WORTUAM