Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-02-24
Nebraska
CAN DO MANUFACTURING As
CHEAPLY AS ANY STATE
IN THE UNION.
the Problem 10 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
very large safe which was being
hoisted by pulleys and ropes in front of
ia high building, evidently intended 70
be taken into the fifth story through
one of the windows. 1t was at the
fourth story and stopped with the
crowd AID watched its hardly per-
ceptible 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 a great noise, the ground
under my feet shook, the crowd surged
backward, some falling under foot.
Men and women screamed, and fright
cned horses plunged through the
crowd. Every one was either awed or
panic stricken by the presence of great
danger.
The safe had crashed through the
pavement into a sub-sidewall base
nent out of sight The force of the
fall 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 great weight.
At Gothen burg, Neb., they have q
direct fall fifty three and half feet of
body of water heavier than that
enormous safe. 1t falls on q turbine
water wheel of the latest aud 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 Gothen burg
will promptly give information either
about the town, the surrounding coun.
try, or the water power.
BY electricity the power to drive the
largest mill in the State can be trans
mitted or taken from this wheel on a
wire not larger than clothes line,
one, two. three, six or a dozen miles
away
A few years ago this was not posi-.
BILE Power had then to be taken from
a shaft. Later a wire cable was sue.
cessfully used for short distances, but
now by electricity power can be trans
mitted 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 the time of electricity.
Plans and estimates are now being
made to use electricity ipstead OF
horses to draw the boats on the Erie
Canal from Buffalo to Albany.
Every reliable water power Al
the country has been suddenly
given value almost inestima BILE
Either wood or coal is indispensable,
| in making steam. Nebraska has NJ
coal mines, no forests Cost of freigh
makes wood not possible as fuel ane
coal very expensive. The place tina
has a water power needs neither one
The water power places will in thu
future do the manufacturing, will bs
the best markets and rapidly max,
the largest cities. The rush to Goth
cnburg, which has had its power plan
completed but little more than /;
month, shows how keenly alive tn,
Western people are to business advan
ages and commercial developments.
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