The Prescott daily news., 1917-07-21
LIGHTNING FLASHES


 cue Island Navy Yard at Philadelphia
 Which will cost more than half mill
 ion dollars.
 Electric vehicles are being introduc-
 od by automobile dealers of Bergen,
 Norway. where the roads are unus-
 ually hilly, the average grade being
 ten per cent.
 What is probably the first under
 oround ore concentrating mill in the
 world is situated near the Mountain Top mine at Ouray, Colorado. It IS
 electrically operated. French engineers have estimated that Itay could secure 5,00O,OOO elec- trical horsepower from the water
 movers of rivers if they were all har- messed.
 More electrical machinery for the IT. S. Navy is being built at Schenec- tadv than in any other city in the country. says W. L. R. Emmet, a member of the Naval Advisory Board and electric drive expert of the Gener- al Electric Company.
 The first electrically propelled fire boats have been placed in service by
 the city of Chicago. They are 125
 feet long and can deliver 5000 gallons nf water per minute at pressure of 15O pounds to the square inch. An electric melting furnace of new design which will do the work of nine old style gas furnaces is soon to be in- stalled in the Philadelphia mint to melt up the nickel and copper used in coinage.
 Since the plant a backyard gar den" movement started, amateur gardeners in several cities have found high powered gas filled Mazda lamp hung over the garden from clothline to be a great aid to garden work at night.
 Mazda lamps have been developed to point to where the average life is 1000 hours. Shis is equivalent to burning a Mazda lamp continuously day and night for one month and ele- ven days.
 The United States leads the world in electrical development says Prof Sayog, head of the electrical depart ment of the Kioto Imperial Univer- sity. Prof. Sakog is touring the coun- try for the purpose of inspecting cleo trical developments. The Coast Artillery branch of the United States army has recently per fected new type of submarine mine electricallye controlled from shore with which to protect our shores from foreign attack.
 A monster searchlight of 500,OOO,- 900 candle power has been purchased by the government and installed on the aviation field at Hampstead, L. I. The powerful light will be used in connection with aerial manoeuvers. Polishing apples displayed on fruit stands IS not always done with sani- tary precautions which would appeal to the appetites of most fruit buyers. "A new electrically driven contrivance pohshes it for display at the rate of carload a day.
 what IS said to be the highest dam Tn the world is now under construct Ion on the Pend Oreille river 125 miles north of Spokane, Wash. When com pieted 1t will rise 375 feet above the oeu or the river and the power will
 De used for generating electricity. The Chicago, Milwaukee X St. Paul
 railroad has begun to eiectrify the
 Puget Sound end of the transcontin-
 ehtal line The new line will pass
 through vast virgin forests which the
 eieetrIhcation will protect from the
 "re hazard of steam locomotive oper-
 ation.
 apartment house builders are now
 considering the adoption of a new
 eVectrlc lceless cooling device which
 VIII keep the apartments comfortably
 vooI m summer just as heat keeps
 lhem warm in winter