The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-27
forts such as have never before bee,
Would Benefit All.

NSeAh AbCIiSIlt All. ra
Aberdeen, BrooKings, Huron.
manson, Mitchell, Redfeld, Sioux
rams Watertown n Yankton will
ne as much benefited as will be
chamberlain, Mobridge and Pierre,
II Is but slightly more than 100
hliles from Sioux Falls to the nearest
power site.
Many remarkable things NAV be
uone with electricity in large uuan-
tltIes. For instance the soil-exhaust-
ca and fertility depleted regions of
me earth are crying for nitrogen.
ms globe is floating in an ocean of
nitrogen, but it can only be sucked
from the atmosphere by electricity
rms world market may yet be sup
plled o South Dakota. Alumi-
umn, the most of all the
minerals and one of the most valu-
aDle-as strong as steel, as light as
wood, as incorruptible as gold-com-
prlses from 30 to 40 per cent of all OF
our clays and shales. but ii can only
be separated by electrolysis. BEFORE
an Oberlin college boy discovered
me electric process il was
by Il laboratory process so difficult
mat aluminium was more costly than
bold. Electricity has brought the
price from $500 per pound down 10
thirty cents. Cheap w and i'm
proved processes may give us two
cent aluminium. Let South Dakota
supply aluminium TO the markets of
the world. These are mere
tlons-give us the power and the
use for it Will be speedily developed.
Gould lirisate an Empire.
Inc excess or higher water pow
er which can be delivered for only
a portion of the year may be used
LOT pumping water for irrigation.
rive million horse power pumping
against Il four hundred foot head
ana counting but & per cen eff
clency OF the pumps "a lift one foot
OF water upon 4,335,00O acres of
IAN IN thirty days. 1t will not he
necessary to lift much of the water
so nigh as 400 feet and il is safe
10 say mat we car irrigate more
than 5000, 600 acres OF our fertile
prairies from this source. Can YOU
imagine what 1000. 600 acres of
South Dakota's prairics. wehn re-
ileved OF the danger of drouth, will
do toward solving the food problem?
south Dakota, the manufacturing
and the agricultural center of the
universe. That is our manifest des-
Tiny. The practical American at once
asks what it will cost?
Cost insignificant.
"The cost will be but a bagetelle
compared with the advantages per
m%anently established. There is no
move engineering principles %inyoly-
nnfhjnU tn do hut ,,,,o. .i..
has been done hundreds of times.
emery II is a matter of putting con-
crete in the bedrock of the Mis-
souri,. AT Platsmouth, Omaha,
Blair, Sioux City, Pierre, Mobridge.
Blsmark and elsewhere this has been
successfully done and the cost of
doing it is we'll determined. Each of
the suggested dams on the Missouri
VIII require from 800 1000 to 400 900
cubic yards of concrete which in.
place will cost about SIS per cubic
yard. AT each of the points named
the dam and lock will cost from
$4,000, 900 to $1,000, 900 and the
developments, With dams as
solid and immovable as the everlast-
ing hills, with locks, power plants.
pumps, bitches, reservoirs and every
lhihS NoliPICtC IOl lle use ana tIdlS-
of power and the pumping,
conveyance and use of the water for
irrigation will cost IN the average
less than $4,000, 600 TO the plant, or
a total of $4,000, 900 for the entire
development, being less than $40 per
acre OF the land placed under water,
Does that Statement impress you?
Forty dollars per acre of the land
benefited will develop these twelve
water powers and in addition
give to the people of South Dakota
$4,000 commercial horse power at
cost of operation. What does S43.-
horse power mean? What can
ii do? Today there are not more
than $4,000 horse power operating in
all OF South Dakota. Recently 60, 900
horse power we're sold
from keokuk dam to the city of st.
Louis for the sum of $1,000. 600 per
year. South Dakota power plants
at low water will develop more than
times as much power as
keokuk is furnishing ST. Louis.
A Job For Uncle Sam.
I'VE are all deeply interested in
the navigation of the Mis-
souri,. The development of these
powers will settle navigation
through this state. Instead of climb
ing the slope of the river through
water. hanging up on sand
bars and lodging snags; steamboats,
Will navigate fiat, deep water for
practically the entire distance. The
passage of the locks will scarcely be
an impeachment. Vessels are put
through the Keokuk lock in four
minutes and it is expected to re-
duce the delay to ten minutes. A
stop of ten OF fifteen minutes once
in twenty-five miles will scarcely be
noticed in steamboating.
How can this great thing be ac-
complished9 1t is Uncle Sans job
and the representatives of South
Dakota in the congress of the
United States have no other business
which compares with this in import
ance. Well may they abandon every
other interest to. accomplish this
magnificent work. Beside it petty,
scheming, dirty personal politics be-
come shamefully small and childish
For the time haino avon tho loroar