Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1909-01-15
ELECTRIC POWER 4 FROM THE
+ 5. 49,: =, BROOKS. &: - IN

u Suldll STREAMS is just OSSluHlUS,S Out
the movement is general all through
this and foreign countries. Nearly.
seyenty-fiye per cent. of the .5,737,372.
farms in the United States boast OF a
small creek or; two running through
them Nearly everyone of W these
streams is available for horsepower.
Many farms in this country are. be-
coming exhausted or are SO now.s.The
cheapest and best way to revive this
unproductive soil is to feed 1t with
heterogeneous fertilizer obtained from
the free air by an electrical process
already employed in Sweden and other.
European countries, where cheap cleo
tricity may be secured from water
power. When all the little streams
are generating electricity the farmer
will have an abundance of the best
fertilizer for the asking, and there
need be no more exhausted land.
The farms are calling for more help,
but greater still lis the call from: the
rural districts for more power. III N .
With power, cheap, reliable power,
the farmer can run more labor.saying
machinery and do with Fever hired
hands. He can. produce and harvest
his crops with less cost and greater
profits. It is the meadow brook which
volunteers to do the hard work, Of the
country districts. to, enrich the soil,
ard to take the place of coal. Water,
power is the cheapest as well as the
most permanent source of energy in
the world. Every drop of water suck
ed up by the heat IF the sun from
tie Seven Seas and carried by, the
nd-bour1e clouds, to be deposited
in the distant mountains, is just so
much stored energy to be used in rae
ing back to the great oceans. Few; and
scattered are the great waterfalls CIV
ing millions of horsepower, but the
land is spider7webbed with countless
streams, big and little, which repre-
sent enough energy to do all the farm
and Industrial work in this country
many times over, and leave enough en-
ergy to light every city and town and
to furnish heat and light for every
building. The extent of the water
power going to waste in this country
is beyond the average human compre-
hension. ~% 1888. 81 = &s5s,&:
Already the finger of progress points
knowingly toward the rivers and
streams for future power, and the
throbbing, sibilant voice of the steam
engine echoes the warning Of the EN-
gineer that,%the coal supply is rapidly
being exhausted. Then the people
will have to flock to the Etorrid zone
to keep from freezing in the winter,
and the wheels of industry will stoop.
unless all the water-power is develop
ed and the energy turned into heat
and power. 49, = <,;ss :ss.5 -s Isl s}
Z The little pasture streams can be
turned into electrical energy to do
the work Of threshing, chnrning, separ-
ating, unloading and pressing hay,
even. to milking the cows and turning
the hateful grindstone. , s.ss;.ss II
A; farmer who has harnessed his
pasture brook gave the cost as fol
lows: One three-kilowatt dynamo,
$3.50; one small turbine Water-wheel,
$50; one water-Wheel governor s75;;
line wire, running about 800 pounds to
the half mile, s65; other incidentala
bring the cost up TO about $3.50. The
total installation costs less than 9
hired man for year. !, 's5 ss-sl.s5