The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-27
TRANSMISSION OF POWER TO FACTORIES
Rooseveits National irrigation Act to Create a
NEW Heaven and a New Earth" for
American FreehoIders Half
Has Not Been Told.

II National Irrigation were only a
dream or something indefinitely pro-
jected. II would be idle to speculate on
foresbadowed results. But the work is
already In its initial stages. 1t contem-
plates an expenditure of ut least $780,
900. 900 ultimately-an enormous sum
If moncy--but by n wise provision of Law
II viii come. not from taxing the people.
but from sales of lands still part of
thc public domain. It will be understood
chat the total expense of each irrigation
system constructed by the government
will be refunded to Uncle Sam by those
who actually occupy the irrigated lands.
Meanwhile, as the years go by, the gen
eral fund for retaining arid lands will
increase rapidly from the sale of public
lands throughout the thirteen States and
tbree Territories affected by the Ma
dsnai act. SO 1t will be that the fund
will grow larger as il by geometrical
progression, after the tenth year. when
the first moneys expended by the govern
meUt siiaii have been returned to II, by
the farmers, who own and occupy the
land under bitches built by the govern
Haent.
Speaker Reeds vtsion.
Hon. Thomas b. Reed. in speech at
Pitts3urg in 1894, said; Mighty as has
been Touched upon. and there Is wenlth
beyond the Mississippi which in the not
far distant future will astonish even the
jewellers on the shores of Lake Michi-
gan. Ecom the time my eyes first rested
on the great uncultivated plains which lie
between the Mississippi and the Pacific
Ocean. my awakening dreams have been
filled with visions of the incalculnble
wealth which the touch of living water
will bring to life from those voiceless
deserts.
There wealth only can produce
wealth. and man. singly and alone. might
asswcll try to subdue the Himalayas as
to cope with these wastes, but the hand
Of undted and associated man is already
reaching forth to grasp the great results.
The same power which wastes millions
on the Mississippi can be utilized to make
the deserts blossom with the homes of
men for whom, and for all OF us, the now
bligirted soil will bring forth the fruits
OF the Garden of Eden"
Lord Macauiay's Prediction.
Lord Macaulay. writing to an Amer
toan friend, once said: your fate be-
heve 70 be certain, though it is deferred
by physical cause. AS long as you have
boundiess extent of fertile and unoc-
cupied land, your laboring population
WI he far more at ease than the labor
Tag population OF the Old World. But
the time will. come when New England
viii be as thickly populated as the Old
World. Wages will be as low, and will
ductuate as much with you as with u.s.
You will have your Birminghams and
Manchesters, and in these Eirmnghams
and Manchesters hundreds OF thousands
o. artisans will assuredly be some time
ont sf work, then your institutions will
CARLY be brought to the test
When Lord Macaulay wrote the above
digerM prophesy he did not know of
the bo,ndless West. an. the great posi-
biRties that are to come to its popua-
ton through irrigation. He did not know
that a Roosevelt would appear on the
scene at the proper time and cause the
ufe-giving water to he applied to the
parcAed -piains and thus produce one of
the grentest transformations OF any age
or any time.
In these columns, on former occasions.
It has been shown that the irrigated West
Will not only be the garden spot of the
world, but that it will afford the surplus
fruit and vegetable produce, coupled with
cereais and other staple articles of com
saerce. which, exported to foreign mar
kets. are destined to establish America s
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Unmeasured Electrical Energy.
The contemplation of such marvellous
eesuits would be incomplete without Civ
Tag due consideration to the generation
Of electrical energy and its long-distant
transmission and local adoption to me-
ciaRical and industrial ends. This as a
direct result of reclaiming arid Amer
ica.-
The electrical transmission of power
to considerable distances has accomplish
81 net only results not contemplated In
IT. original inception, but also others of
widespread Importance and value. In
deed, the secondary results are quite as
important as those arising from the pri-
mary successful operation of such trans
mission lines.
Wherever water power exists, or
where the situation enables power to be
cheapIy produced. there has lain dormant
source OF actual wealth which has
awaited the application of electricity.
The effective results obtained when
powers have been developed and applied
bgtaiz means have been almost invari-
ably alike. New industries have started.
new towns and villages have grown up,
and new centers of production have
arisen and given employment to labor
and afforded a market for raw materials.
From the combination OF the two there
has arisen in each case new source of
manufactured products. representing an
addition to the permanent wealth OF the
country.
EAfs In Water, Power In E1ectriclty.
Even, however, beyond these Industrial
effects which have been noted In the
case Of power transmission establish
ments IN certain portions of the United
Sta4es, other results quite unexpected
ana equally ns beneficial have arisen. In
the arid gegions of the West. where only
irpigaion Is needed to cause the soil to
become highly productive. the installation
e.. tho IL ri hzti.x. IL