The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-11-17

service has proved even more salts
factory than anticipated. The company
is looking about for power to operate
the division between the Idaho line and
the coast. Other than Priest Rapids
there is no great power possibility any
where near their lime so it may be
taken for granted they will cooperate
with the government in the development
of Priest Rapids. The cost OF con-
struction OF this huge plant is estimated
to be eleven million dollars. Between
two and three million dollars worth Of
cement will be used in constructing
the dam, power house and the concrete
conduits. Because OF its proximity TO
the Rapids it is only reasonable to be-
lieve that the cement used in the
building OF the plant will make it prof.
table to build cement max
ing plant here as soon as the water bill
is enacted into law. Watch the fate OF
this bill. 1t will be passed at the COM
ing session Of congress and things will
begin to happen very shortly after.
All the material necessary to making
cement are in close proximity. 1t has
been estimated that $400, 900 above
the cost OF the plant could be saved in
the item OF freight difference alone,
over the cost Of delivering cement from
the Pacific coast or the nearest eastern
plant. The Leavenworth cement
would be shipt to rock Island, dis
tance Of thirty miles and from there by
barge down the Columbia river to Priest
Rapids, at an Approximate cost Of 50 per
ton.
Central Washington is just beginning
to realize what valuable asset it has in
its water power. It is in every way
superior to other power and it is so
much cheaper. The installation Of the
plant to develop the electricity is the
only cost. After that the water flows
thru the pipes onto the turbine wheel
and develops the power.
Electric power is as sure to be the
moving force OF the future as anything
in this world. 1t is the best power
and the cheapest power in this world.
The only cost is the installation Of the
plant. Once the plant is built it is
good for thousand years, and then
some, and practically without any
future cost. Il requires neither wood
or coal, or men to handle it. Com
paratively few men can take care OF
hundred thousand H. P. plant. To
develop the same amount OF power by
any other method, besides the cost OF
the plant, there is constant cost OF
fuel and five or ten times the man cost
to operate it. The dormant energy in
the streams OF the state OF Washington
will be developed very rapidly in the
next few years. We are only beginning
to realize the enormous latent wealth
in our streams.
The great Northern will next spring
begin the building OF hundred
thousand H. P. electric plant on the
Chelan river. There is the possibility
of a two hundred thousand H. P.
electric plant at Rock Island, on the
Columbia river, near Wenatchee. The
building Of the Priest Rapids plant will
be the beginning of such water power
development in this state as will as
tonish the most ardent optimist. Such
great possibilities as Priest Rapids
possesses can neither be overlooked or
doubted by those of US who profess to
be openeyed and openminded, and with
the returning tide Of prosperity Leaven-
worth will go some and grow some.
There is latent power in the Wenatchee
river, the White river, the Chewawa
river, the Icicle and the Entiat rivers.
There is over one hundred thousand
H. P. in the streams Of Chelan county
that needs only to be harnessed to make
every hamlet thrive with industry. The
next ten years will work wonders and
Leavenworth is not the least OF the
towns to be benefited.
Ferryman Leads Adams so in Senatorial
Contest