The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-16
USE NATIONAL
FOREST LANDS
TO GET POWER.
From Water More and More as.
Shown by Report of the
Chief Forester.
tsrre.As1e ~ 1rlEanAs,

AN WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.In the
fiscal year 1916. says Henry 81
Graves, chief OF the forest service, IN
his annual report. twenty new water
power projects which utilize national
forest land began operation. This
was an Increase OF eighteen and one
half per cont III the thtal number.
In the fiscal year 1915 the number Of
new projects which began operation
was twelve. Forty-two per cent OF
the total developed water power
projects of the United States utilize
Fnotional forest land. the forest SER
vice figures show.
Development Of relatively small
projects Is particularly in evidence.
according to Mr.. Graves, In the Rocky
Mountain states. California leads in
the amount OF power under permit
and IN operation. The number OF
transmission line permits ia effect
WINS Increased by thirteen during the
year. The forty applications for pow
er project permits received in 1916
included eight from Alaska nota-
BILE eyidencs.. according to the report,
of increased local interest IN power
development on national forest lands.
there
Concerning the report prepared BY
resolution Of the Senate calling upon
the secretary of agriculture for infor-
nation regarding the ownership and
control OF water power sites and any
facts bearing on the question as to
the existence of a monopoly in the
ownership and control OF hydro-elec-
trio power IN the United States, Mr..
Graves says: This report presented
In far greater detail than has ever
been attempted before an exhaustive
analysis or the general power sltua-
ton. 1t showed marked concentra-
ton of definite md complete control
of a large percentage OF developed
water power by a very few companies.
Data presented regarding inter-rela-
tionships through common directors
and principal officers Indicated
marked tendency toward association
or community of interests, particu-
larry between the principal holding
companies. The movement toward
concentration in commercial central
stations OF all the primary power en-
ployed IN the electrical industries and
in manufactures was found in all
sections Of the United States. the rate
of concentration during the period
.1902-12 being highest in the South
Atlantic states and the extent or con-
centration greatest in the western
states.
The rateo increase ii water
power development for public service.
use from 1902-12 was approximately
three times as great as In steam
power. Primary power installation
from all sources and for all uses In
creased from 1902 to s1912 more than
two and one-half times as rapidly IN
the eleven western states as in the
remand Ter of the United States,
while the increase for primary elec-I
trio power for the same period wasl
'440 per cent for the western states,
as gainst % 6 per cent in the other
states. The development per captta
of the western states In 1912 was
two and one-ha1f times as great as
in other parts or the country.
The report showed considora-s
bic over-d DEVELOPMENT in nearly all
the power centers OF the western
states a1ifornia. Oregon and Wash
ington in particular showing install
latfons far f. excess OF maximum del