The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-16

It is said they are now making nitro gen there by the Haber process, which can be done with low water power but the big dam to be installed will enable them to usealso the cyanamid process, like that of the nitrate plant on the Canadian side of Niagara falls,
 The Cyanamid process is the one chiefly used in Norway. and the one from which much of the nitrates for the German explosives now come. The dam site was given to the United States government without cost by the Alabama Power company, which. ac- cording to its contract, should be fur nishing 35,000 hydroelectric horsepower to the nitrate plant this summer. One of the dams being erected is to be mile wide and 105 feet in height and more than 100000 cubic yards of con- crete will be used in it's construction.
 It is being put up under the super vision of the engineers of the war de- pertinent. The original appropriation for these Muscle Shoals projects was S20, 900, but it is now stated that $150,000,0 900 may be expended on the plants now proposed. In all four nitrate plants and dams are to be built. Muscle Shoals expects to have a population of eo'4o0 within the next five years.
 IL 10 IAlicl clSSllll6 LO hllCW HiltIE k@lt great water powers of the United States are. The south has it's full share. Something like 1000 0o0 horse. power has already been developed, and i: is estimated that there is sufficient fall in the rivers and streams yet to be developed to make a total of over 9,0oc.e00 horsepower, As it is now, there are something like 14 GOO water powers already in use. There are HOO in Alabama, more than 1500 in Georgia, 2600 In North Carolina and almost 200O in Tennessee. There are more than 2000 in Virginia and West Virginia. and South Corolina, Kentucky, Mssis- sipri, Missouri and Maryland lave each hundreds of good-si plants The Tennessee river alone has an estimate her sepower of from one to two msl- lions. and the Pedee, Santee and Savan- nah rivers each have hundreds of thou- hands. South of the Mason and Dixon line there are number of streams whose names are hardly known in the north which can develop 100000 horse power and upward and the whole oi the southern Appalachian range has d watec foundation for large manufac- turing industries.
 The water powers of New England are not half developed. Some years ago consulting engineer of the General Elec- tric company made the statement that more water power goes to waste annual ly in Massachusetts. alone, than could be developed by the falls of Niagara, and this is so notwithstanding the census shows that New England ranks very high in it's water power development. By the last census there were little more than 31,000 water powers in the United States, and only 500 which had capac- ity of 1000 or more. Of these, the six New England states had 5700, and from these was generated almost one-fifth of our total hydroelectric power. At that time New York headed the states in it's water power development, due largely to the big plants at Niagara Falls. Cali fornia came second with total of al most half million horsepower flowing over more than 1000 wheels and Maine was third, with S4S,0oO horsepower over about 5000 wheels. After Maine came