Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-14
WATER power:
GOING TO Waste
Attention Of Both Parties Now
Focused in New Phase
0fProhlem.
CHICAG0's BIG FIRE LOSSES
Are s4,s5o,ooo More Than Bcrlin's-
Public Bath Houses Great
6ucccss-1,ales of Poverty.
Especial to the "News.nl

Chicago, Oct 1.-THE meeting of Taft
terway convention had one unexpected
result in focusing the attention of both
parties on the new phase of the water
way problem which is the question of
! enormous water power that will be gen
Grated by the proposed improvements
on the larger navigabe streams. While
Bryan was taking issue with James j.
Hill over the matter OF financing the
improvements and urging. with other
speakers that money would be forth
coming If the people realized sufficient
~ the necessity of the work, some OF
the experts who We're present rein-
forced this view by calling attention to
the unused water-power of the country
as a solution OF the difficulty. This
power they declared, ran into the tens
or millions of horsepower, and was
z more than enough to pay for all the
projects now approved by the war de-.
partment engineers, amounting to about
$500, 900, 600. Taft called striking atten-
ton to this in his address to the con-
ycntion, though the reference was on.
~ in passing, and he did not point the
conclusion as some of the waterway
men themselves did "Some canals and
many lock dams,' he said. will be re-
quired for the control of the waters for
navigaton these might and should lie
SO constructed as to develop water-5
+ power--and experts estimate that the
water power producible in this way IL
the United States would suffice to drive,
every mill and manufactory, propcl
every railway train and street car.
operate every loom and spindle. and
4 furnish light and heat wherever re-
quired, thus enormously reducing the
drain on our coal resources and on tile,
iron required for the mining and moV-
ing of COAL The total motive power
used in the United States today Is about
s $4,000. 000. 900 horse power. Less than q
sixth Of, this is water power. Many
hundred Thousand horsepower already
created by government dams is gong
to waste, and more Is being used by
private interests without compensation.
PHEASANTS FROM CHICAGO.
The tardy restocking Of the country
with birds. for the benefit of sportsmen,
but also@for the destruction of insects
which damage crops, has been taken
up by the game wardens of various
states, but Kansas is now in the lead
Curiosly enough the game commits
toChicago for his birds. Two thousand
pheasants soon will be shipped to Kan
sas by Wallace Evans of Oak Park, q
suburb, Evans having the unique dis
tinction of having the largest pheasant
farm in the United States. one cover
ing a hundred acres of ground, with
millions of feet of wire netting. The
day OFFS the prairie chicken ard the
grouse, like that of the Wild pigeon and
buffalo. is irretrievably past. according
to authorities of the department. OF.
agriculture, their rapid determination
being due to the fact that they cannot
\ thrive where now the habitations of
*5ot game BIRDS costs the farmers
millions of dollars each year, according
NO official estimates, In the ravages of,
those insects which were preferred by
51tuthcled scavengers of the fields. The
Kansas game warden decided upon
. pheasants, OF the English rinsneck'
Variety native originally of Eastern
China, because they are hardy, prolific
ana a truly game bird of the handsom-
est kind This state of Illinois has taxi
en- some steps toward replacing the
4 vanished grouse with pheasants, as
have Massachusetts. once the home of
the wild turkey. Minnesota and few
of the other states. The demand for
pheasants fol. the markets has increas-
cd rapidly of late. $50 a dozen having
4 been paid for shot birds in Chicago in
\ 1906. s2i to $40 last year, and still more
this year In England the hunting of
d pheasants.s brought from China at some
Il early day, mas DeGil the sport sOI.TpSdl
1 for years and the game preserves of
many rich men in this country are be-
ing stocked with them The necessity
/ of agriculture will probably cause the
/ brilliant plumaged pheasant to become
I, common sight in many of the states
of the Union.
MYoRs AS a FAN.
. Thc National league pennant will
ming was made an event of official mu-
ricipal import by Mayor Busse. who
wired Capt Chance just before the
1 Gra,latic game in New York, when 3O,-
/ roo t7othnmites witnessed the Cubs
snatch the decisive victory, his tele-
1 gram, being as follows: Here's hoping
y You bring home the pennant. You de-
II serve to win. and all Chicago is pulling
for YOU Go in and win: but win
Of lrsa we are proud of you and the
4 whole team. Fred A. Busse, Mayor.
1 Mrs Chance watched the bulletins OF
I tli, game flashed upon an electric score
& board In Orchestra hall and was con-
sderahly happier when the game was.
q won than her husband could have been,
with the mob from the bleachers pur-
N suing him and his men to the dressing