The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-25
SCOTCH HIGHLANDS MILLS,
The Project to Use Waterfalls to
Generate Electrical Power
in That Country.

Waterfalls are being used more and
more to produce electrical power.
Switzerland has no coal with which to
make steam to run her industries, and
so her waterfalls nave been the driving
force. They are now beginning to be
used still more effectively to produce
electricity as motive power. The
rapids and falls of the upper Rhine are
now generating electricity which is
used in the mills Of that region. A
large enterprise is also on foot for the
production of electricity in the Scottish
Highlands by means of water power.
1t may not be so very long before the
prediction of Lord Kelvin that 1.-The
production of electricity by means of
waterfalls will some day attract pros
porous population to the Scottish High
lands" will come true.
The British parliament has before it
the project to obtain electrical power,
equal to $4,000 horse power, by means
of the chain of lochs along he border of
Perth and Argyll counties to the west
of the Grampian mountains. The most
important of these lochs is Ericht,
which has a length of about II miles,
its waters discharging into Loeb Ran
noch and then into the Tay. Ut is pro-
posed to build n large dam az the eX-
IRENE south of the loch, turning it into
q great reservoir, and then to pass the
accumulated waters far below in the
valley through an aqueduct to the cleo
trio plant, where the water power will
be used to generate electricity enough
to drive many large mills. 1t is pro-
posed to follow the same course with
all the lochs between the Grampians
and Loeb Leven. Thus series of reser-
voirs, at high elevation, viii be sup
piled. and the fall of water to lower
levels through the aqueducts will feed
the stations producing the electricity.
The fall of water in some cases will be
900 feet, and that at Loeb Ericht alone
is expected to produce electricity
amounting to $4,000 horse power.
In our western mining regions the
process of producing and reducing ores
is being considerably cheapened by the
utilization of water power to produce
electricity for driving the machinery.
This is q recent feature of our mining
operations and is n new economy that
is diminishing expenses. Great Britain
has been very slow to adopt electricity
as a motive power, but is fully con-
WINGED at last of it's economy and mer-
its, and electric street cars are begin
ming to appear on the streets of few
cities. In January last the expert
mental line that has been building in
Liverpool was started. 1t is two and q
half miles in length, has double track.
and, us the line is already successful,
it is expected that electricity will SUPER
sede horse power on the entire street
railroad system. Electric street cars
were also introduced on the streets of
Glasgow in October last.
Germany has been much wider
awake, and while electric street ears
in England are still in the experimental
stage, 6S cities of Germany have intro
duced them with great success, and in
35 other cities or districts these rail-
roads are now in course of construction.
Most Of the industrial cities of West
phalia and the Rhine province are con-
nected by a network of electric roads
which serve not only for passengers,
but also for freight tratfic.-N. \. Sun.