The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-09

third of a cent per kilowatt hour. But even with it's cost approximately that of steam, with coal at it's present price, it cannot be doubted that the region possessing a large and well distributed supply of such power is going to prove attractive to industry, and particularly to new enterprises, by reason of the fact that through it's use there is saved to the manufacturer a large percent age of his capital which would other wise have to be expended in a steam plant. This saving can be used to en- large the size of the plant and increase it's capacity. Consequently with the completion of even a few of such hy- droelectrfc stations as are now being erected New England should see 8 growth in her industries, though these plants encroach but little on her po- tential water power.
 That New England has long recog- ntzed the friendly power of her streams and been a leader in developing such power by the old methods in vogue before the present age of electricity is shown by the figures. The total de- the present time was estimated by the commissioner of corporations in his recent report at about 6,o00,o 900 horse power. Of this New England had about 36 per cent, New York 30. Min nesota and Wisconsin r and South 0. water power-that is, all the power lodged in the lakes and streams of the entire country-was placed at 26,736,- 900, including that already under de- velopment. The maximum was placed at 51,398, 900. At the recent conserva- tion congress it was estimated that the utilization of even this minimum amount would mean the saving of 500, 900, 900 tons of coal
 According to the census figures, more than two-ffths of the total power de- rived from water wheels by manufac- turing establishments is found in New England. More than one-Quarter of the total power of all kinds used in New Englands many factories is sup piled by water wheels. No such show ing is to be found anywhere else in the United States. If this showing has been made with the old form of power transmission, revealing as it does how readily her rivers by reason of their great fall and flow have lent them selves to mans purposes in this re- spect, what must be the opportunities for her industrial growth in the new method of harnessing the stream, a method by which the power repre- scented by the rivers fall is taken and converted into electrical energy and distributed throughout a territory many miles in extent!
 Today no longer does man have to come to the stream and build his plant at the brink of the fall. Instead he brings the power to him. Here is Q method by which the plunging waters are led tanoely through tunnel or canal so that the force of their fall may move mighty dynamos, a. method by which the hand of man, so to speak, reaches out and, wrestling the power from the river, uses it to run his mills, light his streets and move his trolley cars, though these may be a hundred miles and more away. And yet this new method is practically in it's i'm fancy.
 The following table gives the amount of water power her plants are develop ing today and what they are capable Of a distinction being made between those establishments designed to sell power for commercial purposes and those run in connection with mauufac- turing plants: