The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-09

thirty feet. It's falls have Asen used for power purposes by the old method
 for generations. The dam, built in tho
 sixties, has a crest of 1000 feet For
 hydroelectrica1 purposes the old ca i nal was widened a few years ago and 8 power plant installed which yields 1000 horsepower. In this way the energy of the turbulent river has been rendered possible of transmission far beyond the river bank Today a new dam is being built and engineers are extending this canal with a view of wrestling still greater power from the river by leading 1t to a point two l miles below where another fall of sixty feet will produce electrical en@rgy equal to 10000 horsepower. The power which is being developed of Turner's Falls is sold to a number of allied companies which act as diB- tribUters. In this way 1t reaches many towns, including Riverside and MiIlerB Falls. Through the Greenfield Electric Light company it reaches South Yer non. Northfield, Bernardson, Deerfield, Colerain, Buclziand and Greenfield and | through the Amherst and Easthamp- | ton Gas companies Amherst, Sunder- land, Whately, Hatfield, Had7ey, East hampton and Southampton. Turner's Falls is but forty miles from Spring field. It is aimed to extend the trans mission lines ultimately to supply in dustries not alone in Springfield, but in Chicopee and Westfeld. In many of these towns, particularly Turner's Falls, hundreds of factory sites are within easy reach of this power. whose price necessarily cheapenS as the length of transmission shortens.
 Another recent New England hydro electric development is that at Rum ford Falls. It has resulted already in converting what was twenty years ago wilderness into a modern city with a population of 10000 people. Here where the Androscoggin river has a ninety-nine foot fall a station has been built developing 10000 horsepower Over a million dollars has been spent on two great dams Instead of canals the rushing waters at Rumford Falls are led through great steel tubes into the power station. The mills of the In ternationaI Paper company take over 11,000 horsepower alone. The Oxford Paper company consumes 5,0oe more and the Fort EtH Chemical company 1,25O. The Central Maine Power com pany, located at Oakland on the Mes saloushee river, is still another deveI- opnent with 6450 horsepower devet- oped and 23,O0 undeveloped-
 Connecticut is not wtthoJitiits hydro electric development, for at Bulls Bridge, on the Housatonic, there has been for some years in operation a plant developing 90. O0o horsepower Besides running the trolley lines of the Connecticut company in Waterbury and New Britain, the latter fifty miles away, this power is today running sev- eral industrial plants besides local lighting interests.
 These are but few of the most inn portent of the central I1ydroelectrtc stations already established and iu process of construction in New Eng- land by which a partial utilization of the immense energy of it's water courses may be accomplished and the fad ~--eE FrT-- ly. Scattered throughout this region at the present time are thkTty-one plants designed to sell power c0mmer- cially as distinguished from the scores of mills which still take power directly from the streams on whose banks they are located.
 That these stations have already had the effect of cfreapening power to some extent for the manufacturer there is no doubt. The increase of such plants,
 which Is bound to occur, is certain to have a still greater effect in this line. all of which will rebound to the advan- tage of the manufactures who seeks New England.
 Today the rates for large quantities of power vary from mills per kill oWatt hour at Rumford Falls, Me, to 1.6 mills in various parts of Connecti- cut.
 If used in large quantities there is without question a considerable saving over steam accOFQlnS CO those Co4npe- tent to judge the results
 In order to aid this development the industrial bureau Of the New England lines has collected a list, of available water power sites in Kew England and already there have been many in Quiries for the same.
 It is also about to undertake care faI tabuIation of all the development work at present Hnder way and which will rebound to the benefit of NeI- England's industries, whose promotion is one of the chief aims of the New England lines.
 That manufacturers are beginning ts appreciate the advantage New Eng land possesses in opportunities for such development coupled with her supply of skilled labor there can be no question. It was her broad rivers and rushing streams which aided her set tIenent and stimulated her develop ment in the early days of her history by affording easy means of comnuni- cation and furnishing power to turn the water wheels of her infant indus tries. Today these same streams are stored with a dynamic force which when converted into electrical eneFEy will be sufficient to move her mills and be the means of a new industrial growth rich in promise for generations yet to come. And the supply is inoz- haustibl0.