The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-12-08
WATER POWER IN
NEW ENGLAND
H1any Advantages Over Other Sections
In Fall and Flow of Her Rivers.
Industrial Boom Should Follow Their Use For
Hydroelectric Pufposes-Hgures Show
She Already Leads.

,ri6 problem Of Harvesting our rivers
and utilizing their power to move the
wheels Of commerce and industry is
Today subject OF ever increasing
study ana il is one fraught with ire
mendous Importance 10 the future OF
New England.
The increase in the price Of coal. the
Sact rs shown by geologists' reports,
that our coal supply ~ not ineEnaust-
IDLE, particularly the supply of anthra-
cite, have turned our thoughts to the
river, have bade us try to AVIAN our
selves Of its friendly flow and utilize
Glle enormous energy which il repre-
scents
The increased attention given to this
bUbject resulted a few years ago in the
geological survey making a careful ex-
animation Of the country's water pow
or, and It year ago the bureau OF cor
porations revised and extended the
work 40 as TO show the extent to which
water power has up till now been util-
lied, The report of the commissioner
81 corporations. for one thing, pointed
put thst the great bulk OF the water
powsr OF the country was on its edges
in other words. that New England
New York and Pennsylvania and a few
south Atlantic states, together with
rhe Pacific, contained pretty much all
that there was OF IT,
The following are the principal riv
Srs whose potential water power is so
important TO New England and which
should make it pre- eminently the
place for manufacturing opportunities:
ST. Croix River Maine.
Total fall 42s feet in sois miles; drainage
area. 1.8l4 square miles; maximum rate OF
fall 80 feet per mile AZ sprague Falls.
PeHobBeot River, Maine.
Total fail 1869 feet in 300 miles: drain
age area, 1884 square miles; maximum
rate or fail, 1871 feet per mile at Chesun-
COOK lake.
ksnnehso River, Maine.
Total fall 1923 feet in las miles; drain
age area, 0,40O square inllss: maximum
rate OF fail, 1877 feet por nile near Moose
dead lake (sourc0).
Androsoosain River, Maine.
Total fan 2,2sS feet in 100 miles; drain
age area, 1888 square miles; maximum
rate OF fail, %SI feet per mile near Magnl-
ioTay lake (source).
saeo River, Maine.
Total foil 1,Ss0 feet in Jos miles: maxi
mum rate ~ fall, 9i.6 feet per mile at or
near source. drainage ares, 1.751 square
miles.
Msrrimae River, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts.
Total tail gG9 feet in 10 miles; maximum
rate OF fall 500 feet per mile at Asnches-
Ter. y. IL: drainage area. ASA square
miles.
Gsn.osook River Branch of the Mer-
Fimac).
fetal fall So feet In IS miles maXimum
rate OF fall, 400 feet per mile at Benning-
ION, n. Il drainage area included in
Merrinac)
Connecticut River.
Total fan zess feet IN $50 miles: maxi.
mum rate OF fall, ;A.3 feet per mile 81
Connecticut lake; drainage area, 1889
square miles
l4cusatonie River.
Total fan ess feet in 12s miles; maximum
rate OF fall, 1914 feet per mile at Falls
image, Conn; drainage area, 1893 square
miles.
Labor is generally more plentiful
particularly skilled labor. where the
conditions OF living arc the best where
here Is the best environment for The
ANIAa, kstG Ad1r -IAteAlfA atAF sillAdHtis
Il Is for reasons sGch as these that
Sew England has such 2 large popWs-
tloa ~ ssiLs9 ;Ecchscics. - 10 FOR these
rv2s7IL tH2t Saacs $50 it became m
iaGcsel ~ region a,no.t NitAc':- couAi|
y, thu otusir,': he1cc & rnCSr b. that
9TH the dsvs.cr-uea- Il the enormous
soHsr loSFsd IN her streams ard i.s
c9rvosa!oa Into electrical scc.sf rDe-
s4s;s ef trsns.c lsaion over an extended
ana thsrs shou.d be no question bur
that THU region Is 20 be- the sco.- %,
frsat iEula.V.sl eHqsasicn ths9rsh the
superior ad~2c;-s.s j. viii t1ss oe.er
% Yc1@4s2c.>l @St
Sydroalc-r-lc roro--the poNe~ %
tAs fcrrlng st'asm converted tn.p el.c.
rslSai enerEy ,arouEs tht v.a 80 tur-
e.nss --sae7 M. he cheNrss .han s-ssn,
m some pace FOR lis coat 10 ,ae .or-
tumsT vsr.ss eth Coua4tiors % So.
dem nuns higher thar steam, ssd lq
olaag ;nstsncss ieaet over 80. t1r in
s.Eaes. ut Rumfg-d Walls. % MAJ.
wks-- ina power OF ,a- riasr trrx cone
vsrlod is sLgVAst 20 NEARBY ee-a.:a-
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