Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-10
SPARKS ELECTRIC.

The southern PACING railroad VIII
eiectrify It's trans-bay lines at San Fran
cisco. The contract has been let for q
power house at Fruitvale to cost, With
overhead work and substations, nearly
S22,OU0OOO. The Southern Pacific does
an immense suburban business and the
electrification is being watched with in
tcrest.
Electricity has suppanted steam in Il
large cotton mill near Birmingham Ala
hama. There are II 900 spind!es operat-
Jag.
Throughout Vienna electric clocks, reg
ulated from central station. are being
installed. Each clock has four dials
They are placed Oh high iron poles, at
street corners.
Figures presented to the Institute of
Electrical Engineers show that the net
saving over steam by the use OF electric
ity Oh the railroads of the United States
averages $63S per mile. If applied to
ali tie railroads it would effect a saw
iEg of S13S,o00,OOO per annun..
The Vesta No. 4 coal mine at Cali
fornia. Pa, has So miles of stationary
abroad track down in the mine, over
which % electric locomotives draw trains
of 100 steel ears to the surface. each
car carrying three tons of coal. Twenty
four miles of additional track can be
moved to suit the location of the work
ors.
The organization of a company to open
one of the largest slate quarries in the
world, is nearly completed at Bangor,
Pa. The quarry machinery will be en-
tireiy motor-driven as electricity has
been found TO be the most flexible of all
power.
4 Lond Island farmer who is interest
ed in raising winter vegetables is try
ing out a novel electrical experiment. An
electric arc light is used as a nocturnal
Gil he ifuto Cor tho SIMS Tho
tables are grown indoors and the arc
light travels, by means of a small motor,
from end to eud of the building. 1t is
SAID that these plants look as healthy
and vigorous as those grown under the
sun.
| Chicago to cost half a million dollars.
The machinery will be all motcr-driyen.
The latest timepiece is the electric
clock. 1t requires 10 keys, any number
can be regulated from a central station
and it is more reliable than the ordinary
| clock
For the past SIX months the Genera
Electric company has been using 1900,
00O pounds of copper a week.
A dispatch from Berlin states tina
preparations are being made to eectrify
all German railroads.. The start will b
made in Bavaria where $50 miles of
track will be electrified. The next in line
Nlh NC TIC Aoe.uo poIn oSh DCt LII "liu
Hamburg. Germany will lead the world
| in this respect.
The largest dam in the south has just
| been finished. 1t is thrown across the
| Yadkin river thirty-one miles from Sails
bury, n. c., and is As feet high and 917
| feet long. The minimum flow Of water
| gives 10000 horsepower, which makes
| it second only to Niagara as source OF
mechanical energy. The electric power
! generated will be transmitted to neigh
| boring cotton mills and factories.
A young Lyons scientist announces
| that he has discovered a method of trans
hitting electrical energy without wires
A miniature car, running on rails, was
recently propelled a distance of 200 feet
Experiments are still being conducted.
! A new cable line, 1900 miles in length
will connect New York city with Ha
vana, Cuba.
A new wireless station is being in
stalled at the League Island navy yarC
at Philadelphia.
! structed between Geneva and Dothan
| Alabama, at a cost of half million
dollars.
At Newb burg, n. Y. the Pattekill will
be damned and used to generate 15Ot
| electrical horsepower. The water right
| have been secured.
The Mount Hood Railway and Powe
! company Of Portland, Oregon, has begun
work on it's 100000 power plant
| the Sandy and Bull Run rivers
| The largest steam turbine in the world
! with a normal rating of 10000 horse
| power, is being constructed by the Gen
| eral Electric company for use on the Pa
| cific coast.