The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-13
DUNN POINTS OUT NEED ID UTILIZE
 ALL WATER POWER
Prominent Engineering Ex- pert Says South Is Not
 Using Resources
VISITOR IS GUEST
 OF INDUSTRIAL MEN
Will Be Shown Plants of Tennessee Company Today and Will At- tend Banquet at the Hill
 man Tonight


 Gano Dunn, vice president and chief engineer of the Crocker- Wheeler cleo trical manufacturers and president elect of the American Institute of Elec- trical Engineers. arrived in Birming- ham yesterday afternoon. He is one of the foremost engineering experts in America and will be extensively en- tertained by the electrical and en- gineering men of the Birmingham dis trict during his stay of less than two days. MT. Dunn is the designer of the most modern industrial electrical appliances and achieved wide attention by his work of installing the electrical appliances in the American Tin Plate works at Gary, Ind. He Is we'll known among officials of the Tennessee com pany, being a personal friend of Pres ident G. G. Crawford, and is other wise we'll known in the Birmingham district.
 MT. Dunn will be entertained at luncheon today by Henry Badham, president of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land company; will be escorted over the plants of the Tennessee com pany in the private car Tennessee and will make an address at a banquet to be given tonight at the Hotel Hill man.
 
 derful possibilities in every way" said Mir. Dunn yesterday. During my years of work designing electrical appliances to assist in the furtherance of indus trial activities I have made a study of the forces provided by nature In this and other sections of the country. At the commercial congress, recently held in Atlanta, I pointed out that in the south there were unlimited powers from there is 5,O00.000 horsepower in streams of this section unused which will be utilized just as soon as man arrives al that stage of the industrial game to realize how very valuable the powers of nature really are.
 "1n Alabama this conservation of power and final service of it should be especially interesting. The avail able natural supply of coal can be cal culated now. The time will come when the coal of the country will be taken by the United States government ano held in check for smelting those ele- ments which cannot be smelted in any other way. For instance, coal Is the only agency which will serve in the smelting of iron, steel and such metals When this time arrives, then man will turn to water. The utilization of wa ter power at this time would take that much coal from consumption and would render it more valuable for many oth- CT services. The question is one which time alone can rightfully settle, but as sure as the world lasts the south will have to utilize the tremendous wa ter power which is so abundant"
 MT. Dunn said in speaking of Birming- ham that he was astounded at the growth of the city and while he was prepared to see some wonderful changes he did not realize that Birmingham had grown to be cosmopolitan city in so short a time.
 "On account of our industrial connec- tion with many companies he con tinued, "I have always been interested in Birmingham. We have been closely con- nected with the officials of the Steel cor poration for years and have been of serv- ice to them in installing electrical ap- paratus for their plants. We have been in close touch with the local plants and I am very anxious to see them."
 MT. Dunn is from Ampere, N. J. He will make an address tonight upon 'The Application of Electricity to Steel Mills and Mines before the following we'll known men: H. c. Ryding, assistant to the president and general manager of the Tennessee company; H. L. Badham, pres ident of the Bessemer Coal, Iron and Land company; James Bowron. vice pres pany; E. J. Best, chief engineer of the Tennessee company, Ensley division; c. J. Barr, general superintendent of the Ensley steel mill r. M. Drennen, pres ident of the Palos Coal and Coke con- pany; Mayor Culpepper Exuril. President A. H. Ford of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company; H. U. Gass- man, chief electrical engineer Of the Ten nessee company; c. W. Lutz. superinten- dent of the American Steel and Wire company; B. A. Schroeder. district man. ager Crocker- Wheeler company; E. H. Coxe, superintendent coal mines; F. B. Keiser, vice president of the Southern Iron and Steel company; H. F. DeBarde- leben and c. F. DeBardeleben of the Ala bama Fuel and Iron company; William Housman, chief mechanical engineer of the Sloss- Sheffield company, and w. L.. Upton of the Sloss- Sheffield company.