The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-03-29
LOCAL POWER POSSIBILITIES
City Engineer E. P. Osgood Tells
OF What May Be Accom-
plished In The Future.

Fallon, New, Mar. 27, 1911.
Editor of STANDARD,
Fallon, New.
Dear Sir:
Possibilities of power develop
ment attracted my attention and below
is the result. Possibly you may be in
terested.
10, 600 POPULATION.
The question of the transmission Of
power into Fallon has been receiving
considerable attention and is being well
urged by our papers. Its Importance
cannot be over estimated from the
commercial point of view and every
effort should be bent towards whole
sale delivery of power here. Mr.. Means
and Mr.. Hayes are quoted as being
strongly of the opinion that the 26 fit.
drop should be used only for pumping
for high land irrigation, not for power,
on account of possible fluctnation, etc.,
at that point. Further figures are not
at hand but there is probably but little
doubt that the total cost of developed
large amount of power in Falon would
be cheaper per H. P. from the distant
dam site than from the near drop mas
much as a pound of water at the furth-
er point developed nearly 8 times as
much power there as q pound at the
drop six miles out. In that case the
far power could be sold cheaper than
the near power, and cheapest power is
what we want.
As suggested heretofore it is likely
that our development as community
will run into early limitations if based
only on our agricultural possibilities
there are those who confidently set our
population at 5000 to $500 as our final
fullest development from the land about
us. My idea is to point out some
features that may be anticipated
from our available power.
Say 10000 H. P. is available to US;
it is energy to do work but it needs
direction; how many people would be
needed in it's dlrection2 The following
/ figures are the result of few minutes
spent on the matter; they are given as
only rough summaries but they may
incite others to the task and perhaps
some one will give US the exact figure
for our population in 1920. Suppose
1000 H. P. set aside for pumping to
high land and orchard land, and 5000 H.
P. for manufactures. Now l II. P.
would continuously raise about = sec
it. 10 fit. high Oh average to higher
ground and might be assigned duty
of 40 acres per season. One second
foot as used now is figured to handle all
the way from so acres to 800 acres per
season. On supposed basis the 1000 H.
P. would irrigate 1000 forty acre tracts
of valuable high ground with say
people on each tract; increase of popu-
lation 10000 and with 10 people in the
country to one in town, then the town s
population would be increased some
1900 Still 5000 H. Z. are available for
power purposes. With power of the
cheapest in price we should attract
some commercial developments. How
many men would be employed on the
strength of the development? In some
general industries actual examples
show from slightly under l in two
instances to from to 6 men employed
per H. P. A 100 H. P. mine hoist could
easily represent 100 men in the mine.
Each man in town will mean some
or with his family and perhaps each
10 in the mines or 80 in camp will mean
| more in town. The 5000 H. p. might
easily mean 5000 more to Fallon's popu-
lation. Final results would then be
$500 plus 1900 plus 5000 equals II, 900
population perhaps some day. Each
man employed in town would mean
some or increase directly in the
towns population so it is easily seen
that our efforts should be to attract and
establish as many manufacturing con-
Germs as possible here in our midst if
we would rush along with modern COM
mercial development.
Do the figures look fantastic? Let
others figure it over some.
E. 2. OsGooD, C. E.
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