Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-22
RIVER AND STREAM A
PRESENT PROBLEM 3 {:
How May They Be Utilized to
Conserve Country's Sup
ply Of Coal.
ILLINOIS NOW HAS II VOTES
state stands Third iii Tie Electoral
Collcgc-Paper Made from
Cornstalks.

Chicago. oct. 1S.--On the anniversa
ries of the panic days of last year, Chi-
cage seems oblvious of the STIR mace
when Heinze suspended, when BANKS
closed their doors in New YORK ana
clearing house certificates were issued
Earnings OF railways and Industrial
concerns are on the upgrade, ueposits
here and in New York are making new
records and every effort is turned 70
preventing panicS in the future. On
this score Immediate steps to check the
enormous waste of the country's nat
ural resources are urged with view
to preventing any disturbance by eN-
haustion of the iron supplies and me
coal, which competent authorities say
is probable unless new discoveries or
inventions greatly change the situation.
Government estimates show that tne
Lake Superior ore beds will be exhaust
cd in 1914 if the consumption continues
to increase as 1t has in late years. con-
corning this. President Walter u.
Fisher the Conservation League OF
America said. zone remedy for the
exhaustion of our more important re-
sources lies in the utilization of other
important resources which we nave
neglected. The most important OF
theseiis our rivers and streams. When
our coal supply actually fails we can
fall back on these for a large part or
our transportation and power. Very
little use is now made of them IN
either way,partly because of the capital
outlay required for river Improvement,
which makes it more Immediately
profitable to use coal. but chiefly be
cause of our improvidence and our fall
uro to keep in view the needs OF our
future national life. Abroad it is dit
ferent. The ease of water power Is
even more striking. There are about
30,000.00C horsepower, it is estimated,
This is precisely the amount of prime
motive power used today to do the ell
tire work OF the nation. In other words,
il We should utilize all the streams IN
the country, directly and by electrical
transmission, they would furnish us
with enough power to run every tram
and every factory and to move every
wheel that is now used in our enormous
industries-alid this without the use of
u single ton of coal. But our water
power is not so utilized. Only 100000
out of the present &c, 100000 horsepower
is generated by water and the rest is
derived in one way or another from
the stored-u energy in coal. Even the
power created by government dams Is
government gets no compensation.
There is no more striking Illustration
of the intcrdcpendcnce of all consefya-.
ton problems thon the fact, in connec-5
ton With this, that a fair rental for
this unused and unpaid for water
power would give the government
funds to improve the entire waterway
system of the country-thus making the
rivers pay for themselves
THE; ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
Political headquarters, Republican,
Democratic, Prohibition. and Socialist.
are now deep in the study of the cleo
toral college, a subject that flashes
briefly once every four years and then
plunses into an oblivion disturbed only
by makers of almanacs. Not since the
Hayes-Tilden episode has the public
concerned itself much about the cleo
toral vote by which in reality presidents
are made, as Hays was made in that
exciting contest. OF unlnade as Tilden
was by one vote--which his adherents
still declare to be questionable. The
electoral vote for Hayes was recorded
lS5. for Tilden lS4 In 1904 the electoral
vote for Roosevelt was 1886 against lao
for Parker, whereas the popular vote
was: Roosevelt. 762O.670: Parker,
$3.50 207. In the days of Andrew Jack
son the total popular vote cast for both
candidates was only 1.156,32S, which is
only 100000 more than Chicago is pre-
pared to cast. according to the regis
tration records. with All incomplete To-
tai above 100000 AS the electoral col
lege is made up according to the appor-
tionment of representation in Congress
under the last census. Illinois stands
third in the number of its votes New
York being first with 80 votes. Penn
sylvania second with "a, Illinois third
with ~ Wyoming, Montana, Nevada,
Idaho, Delaware and Utah tie for the
'last place in the list. with votes each,
and Vermont. Oregon. South Dakota
are next from the bottom. each with A.
3aslng the figures on the Chicago regis
tration by wards, the party managers
are agreed at least on conceding Chi
Cages First ward bosses. Aldermen
Coughlin and Hinky Dink Eenna are
running the campaign on principles of
strict economy in the matter Of lodging
house votes. The ward vote shows il
in shrinkage.
PAPER FROM CORNSTALKS.
Paper from cornstalks, the discovery
announced by the department OF agri-
culture, here in the midst OF the corn
belt gives promise not only of checking
the waste Of timber in the making OF
wood pulp, and of a saving to news
paper publishers, but also of new
wealth for the trainers that Will run
into millions OF dollars annually The
raw material for paper making and
printing" as given in government re-
ports costs annually over $500, 600 600,
a figure that serves as q basis upon
which statisticians have made the com
putation that the new value of corn
stalks will amount at least to cent per
bushel. The corn crop of 1907 amounted
20 o.592 600 bushels, with a farm
value. which did not recon any value
from the cornstalks, of s1.336. gO1, 900, to
which an added cent a bushel would
add S25000,000. The discovery is one of
those in class, SO far as its public
Importance is concerned, with the much
sought secret OF producing electric pow
er erect from coal. without the present
loss of practically IS per cent of its po-
tential energy in power production
one Of the phases CT conserving the ma
tons resources which the Conservation
League of America Is advocating. The
suggestion made by Congressman n. S.
Bcntell, who placed Speaker Cannon's
maine III nomination at the Republican
national convention. In pledging his
support for measures of conservation
he added: II would respectfully sug-
gest that as soon as possible the league
offer substantial prizes for certain
specified Inventions and discoveries that
will result In protecting waste among
them some cheap. practical process or
treatment to prevent the oxidation of
iron and steel: the long sought for Sc
crct Of producing electricity directly by
coal combustion at the mines and dis
trihuting it over long distances convert
able into light. heat and motive power
1.-THE most transcendently magnificent
disc n fine fIIf,rrn1.