The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-01-05
WATER POWER PLAYS
IMPORTANT PART IN
MILITARY STRUGGLE
Many New Hydraulic Power
Plants, Born of the War Needs,
Are Turning Out Shells, Chem
icals and Other Necessities.

~ ~ AANNNNA NHNAHNA q
Paris. Jan. THE water power 81
the Alps, the Pyrenees ana the CEN
trail mountainous region Is playing q
big role IN the military effort Of
France anG will have an even greater
share In the after-war economic strug-
Gle.
Many new hydraulic power plants
born OF the war needs. are turning cgt
shells, chemicals n other necessities
Tor the army. Man others. born Of
the coal famine aud It's lessons viii
replace steam power after the war.
France utilized thirteen per cent 81
It's total estimated natural water pow
err In 1914. She was utilizing more
than twenty per cent In July Of this
year and the proportion Is every day
increasing. Competent engineers fix
at 1900 O0 horse power the energy
France could secure IRON it, water
falls at tow water. while 100000
horse power N the estimate for average
seasons The total steam energy used
in France before the war was only
about $500, 600 horse power divided
among about $4,000 establishments,
The water power Of the Alps has
given the name Of the yale Of Alum
mum to the Valleys of the Arc, where
e3. 900 horse power IL used transform
ing alumine into aluminium. Ia Ro-
manche In the Wild valley from Bourg
d'Oisons to Pont de Claiz Is the "val-
ley OF carbYret and metallic alloys
ebsorbing 60. 900 horse power Ele'-
tric steel plants are concentrating an
the basin OF tho Arly where one con-
Germ has installed a complete min
iii. .I..t.tn f.tVv... ID. aFFR H4s FfVNIufa
Of 22.000 horse power. Seven inn
portant new plants are being built In
the region Of G%renoble.
In the valley of tho Buronce new
plants a~ggregating 1900 horse power
for the clectro-themical industry arc
under way. while above Madame one of
the biggest chemical works IN France
has acquired rights TO about 10000
horse power Of water fall that viii bee
utilized speedily.
Hyrdaulic electrical plants IN Con
trial France have saved the family
ribhon industry Of Saint Etounc The
little home shops had begun to di-1p-
pcur-unahlc TO compete with tit"
mills Electric motors ~ a quarter
NJ 4 horse power have SET this dunes-
tic occupation coins again, keeping nt
homo men and women who would 9TH
orwiao be driven Co. the looms of the
big mills. Little motors are used OH
through tlnt region for cabinet MAX
ing Had they not existed before the
war. 10 would br unccssar. to Invent
them or something equivalent for the
use o. MANNED soldiers
The c~lcctri, motor b. counted rpon
also 10 solve the problem Of farm help
tn regions accessible 10 current Coz
operative societies are heing formed
10 buy current Tor distribution among
the members. the Installation ~ "a pow
er station is bciup considered by one
of them. a law Co %rucourase and help
such projects is nov being considered
in tho chamber.
Electric energy TOR Paris brought
from the Alps is the most ambitious
project for the future, A dam az yards
high in the Rhunr at Gcnissiat, back
ing tho water mp - miles 90 tho SWISS
frontier will furnish "a fall sufficient
20 operate q power station Of $4,000
horse power and 1000 kliowatts The
energy is 60 Doc transported 90 Paris
IN the form of 1u alternating current
under % tension OF t20 600 volts Tho
line OF transmission viii be 3l2 miles
long
ono hundred and twenty million
francs is the estimated outlnv-the
cost ~ about q d1y and n half Of wni
10 France.
This %ontcrnrioe would atone eco0o-
wiye f 500 000 fHnt or h 90 w'N."n
TONS ~ ro4l France imported 1uru0IlN
'cf.ve tho war T%r~furo~e f'wTrn tlHt
rurrcrt nrou~hf fr.m 'hC Wise frou-