Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-22
ELL PERKINS AMAZED AT GOTH
ENBURG.
Wonderful Water Power and an Eiec-
trio Plant that Aston.shos
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GorHENBuRa, Ncb., May To the
Editor of The Bee: After travelling
around the world confess that ! 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 Gotheu-
burg. had boon astonished mt the
rapid growth of McCook aud wondered
Mt the SIP eudid water power ut kear-
ney, bpt Gothenh burg amazed mo, Here
is y town that could teach late inven-
tions to Boston or London.
"What has Gothenburg doneI" you
ask.
why, She has run the North Platte
through ten-mile canal and made u
mountain lake on the hills, The lake
is sixty feet higher than tho town and
covers hundreds of acres. Pouring
down from the lake comes n 100000.
horse power stream of water rushing
through the town"
'What has Gothenburg got?" 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 and then distributing this
electricity for light and power and heat
over wires into every house in town.
One wire turns the machinery in u
brass factory recently moved to Goth
enburg from Cambridge, Mass An
other wire runs into n clothing factory
and turns fifty sewing machines and
another will soon run to the big -four
ing mill and knock out its expensive
steam engine.
what else of Gothenburg?
"Why, they are heating houses with
this electricity caught from the North
Platte saw n woman ironing with
no sIove in the house.
what heats your iron?" ! asked.
"This little wire hanging to tho fat
iron," she said. at is heated by cleo
tricity from the North Platte"
And there | saw eggs frying in
pan on the parlor table and a coffee
pot boiling, while the bottom Of 1t was
so cool that it would not burn your
hand or melt the varnish on the table.
"Shall make you some wheat cakes
without fire?" asked Gothenburger.
st will tako too long," said.
mo, only minute" he said, as he
pass through the bottom OF griddle.
Then he threw a tea cup full of flour
and spoonful of baking powder into
n half-pint of water. gave 1t quick
stir with spoon and poured five cakes
into the griddlc. The little puffs and
bubbles came on the cakes in a minute
and in three minutes he had the cakes
steaming on my plate, and the cleo
tricity turned off again. Then he at
tached the wire TO boiler and an
oven and broiled beefsteak and baked
bread This, mind you, was not In
Paris before the academicians, but out
in Gothonburg, 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 fl ON 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. 1t seems almost Ike fairy
tale, but it is literally true,
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