The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-11-13


featuring. Industrial, steamship aud
other enterprises
The electric power In used IN tn,
mines fur hosting. Air comprcHHura
Hre used To- operate the drills. by
means Of electricity a low grade ore
in worked that was never used be
fore
\ new way TO- coal locomotives In
being introduced by a prominent
railroad Al the engineer has 10 10
In To- run his engine on trvutlo,
touch button ana u trnder-fui Of
coal drops into his tender. which IL
weighed aa II drops IN.
Electricity ia being practically anu
most economically used In tho manu-
fueture Of glass Ia Germany Small
portable cruclhlca are used and the
plants are placed near streams
where water power 10 available IN.
stead Of near coal supplies.
All telephones aut telegraph lines
iu France are operated by the gov
eminent There are IL towns uaf-
side ~ Paris supplied whit tele-
phones with an aggregate popuia-
ton OF 6.o0o 900. There ta great
complaint "a to expense and un.
aatlHfaetnry operation
\ new rival 20 Niagara Fails is
projected AZ Ncwfaur, y. y. where
a 0.fuut hish dam IL To be- erected,
aud large number ~ factories are
To De erected preliminary to MAX
Ing o. az It's promoters say, the
greatest manufacturing town Ia
America operated By electricity.
An electrical generating plant is 60
be established at the AsHouan Dam
In tho Nile - carry the electric cur
rent 100 miles 60 operate cotton fac
tories Ia be built under british en-
tctprisr and with British capital.
France 10 not a whit behind. but
more secret In her movements. Ger.
MANY has big defensive enterprises
IN hand along ltz restricted sea
coast. but schemes ~ defense are
being maturvd which will make en-
trance to that country a. difiieult as
cracking a government safe
The quickest coal handling ma
chtncry has Just been put IN opera
tiHn at Calumet. Mich. There arr
Il gigantic nhoVeis operated by
steam, Bach one drops into barge
under It and scoops W three tons
" coal at a dock and "a few see
ouAs v il IN the furnace
All nations are getting ready fer
the NEXT war our shell makers
have produced the ''tsham shell ''
one % these shells broke IN Rrm8s
plate 20 Hpliutcru with igD pounds %
dynamite, The shell weighed 1850
pounds The English Ruyai I'm.
Ein~ers do not know what Il make
% Il
Seeing that the cEAr Is industrial
~ rvVututiouiuinE siberia and Cen
trail Asia with railroads and irriEa-
ton Hrtemcs and loans % money
Ia start millions u PEASANTS Ia be-
cotue freemsn. the English govern
meut has quickly taken NJ the de-
v~iopment % East India on a broad
rr scale than tts development has
been conducted for % years Cur
Eon - IN the lead AZ home every
EFFORT l. being made to encourage
British capital Co ~ - India t.
develop Ste latent resources. II has
almost enough railroads for tn
present. but It's enormous mineral
deposits await the miners pick AMI
diamond dniI Something l. o. be
dome With it. population % -. 90.
600
Telephone connection has been &C.
tahHshri az far ~ Grand Fofks ari
J Jamestown. -. r.. also 10 Memphis.
on to south. and i.lttie Rock. IN the
southwest A line IL beng eemplst-
81 "a New Orleans. and Niii be e.
tended At once 20 Houston. Tes
over g. 90. 90 have been expended
this year IN connecting the main
long distance tsisphon. lines With
small toans east % the Mississippi
river The interior is to completely
gridlron the south with long -distancs
iiuea
Russia il being opened pp 20 won
dsrful engineering possibilities. Al
- lta great rivers are being u1sBsur-
a and surveyed. and all knoWicdee
concerning them dtgrutad An in.
fricatr system OF connecting canals
are projected that WHi cobweb the
w H#ftf AAANHAHaAfs AH~AlAHH NNNN ENNAh
line through Siberia are being pro.
iected to develop unlimited natural
resources The aims - the leaders
In this Industrial regeneration are
to make Il the piEhtient Industrial
power IN the Eastern anhers
The water flows Of the rivers are be-
ing measured and their electricity
producing capacities estimated
Cripple Creek. 80 much talked and
read about. IL very little known. n.
area H. little over six SQUARE miles
% hill and valley. and only 2. 800 feet
above the sea has 80 productive
gold mines. rs Of which send out over
! 90 tons % ore per month popuia-
tion - 600. Steam railroads enclreie
Il. but do not enter. hut an electric
line ~ grades and curves climb 10
to ~ feet and make the round trip
At u mites an hour water power
nt Lake Moralne on Pixies Peak
generates tho electricity and trans.
mlts the power nine miles The line
will shortly be extended to Colorado
Spr nEs, % mites. TIE mines arc ~
high NJ Tn the mountain that tho
cost ~ water and fuel was heavy al
FIRST.
WILL SAW WOOD.