The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-11-30
CHARLOTTE MAY SEND
US ELECTRIC CURRENT
Enough Water Power May Yet Be Harnessed
10 Run Every Factory and Light Every
Town In The State

.rum building its own
service plants long
,- - Elizabeth City won't
... - make its own electric
at all; we'll get our
-- from the mountain
.-..-- of the CarolinaS. sent
.. ,r IL over high tension
.rm Charlotte. 800 miles
~- .. away.
rh.. "jSt of one statement
.. ia" editor of this news
,.r.. .... other day by no less an
...'.... than William States Lee.
w.. "..~jdrut and Chief Engineer
.. southern Power co. Down
r... . D." eastern part of the State
w..,. ur haven't thought much of
N,...-..rtric development, il mag
20 ..,- Q" thousand of readers of
..E -.wspapcr to know that en-
...... estimate that the wafer
,....~ r">uurccS of North Carolina
... -urnNimnt"ly 2.nOO,O horse
'.r.~. II this power were all
H.i-r'rd. North Carolina would
r.- ..rd to import for power pur-
,..r single ton Of coal. The
u.rr' of electrical energy would he
....aI.ut tu in.OnO.nuO tons of coal
'..u year. and electricity for power
mH Ij@ht would hc available for
rr. firally every community of any
a,..,Irrahlc size i'm North Carolina
ra. millions and millions of dol
r'. which are now going out of
rt,. State in Il steady stream for
r"al for those sections which d"
rn- have hydro-clr"trir power wouid
d. kept at home 1" further develop
ru own industries. &" further in
.r""S" "ur own wealth and pros
."riry. and To provide employment
md opportunities for our owm pco-
PIE.
The Sou,hcrn Power Co.. Of which
1I~. L." is vice president and chief
,..Hw"r. IL the great pioneer in
l..r"-"lcctri" development in North
.... Of transmission lines it Is
r.rm. The juice To drive five and
20 quarter million cotton mill
.u+.ID"~ in the Caroliua> ON"
.-..h Of ali the SnindlcS i'll
'..r.r,. Thru III" utilization of
... gf,Arvr" wasted pnw"r of caro-
... r.-"r~. Southrru Power saves
... manufacturers Of the two Caro-
d. @.prOuor tons of coal annually
Fl. r n,.r ~aviu" of over SJ.uh.noo.
'... transmission system of the
....r"ru Power Company. cmhra"-
..- q. ,uu miles of transmission lines.
...r. aud SrrycS tn" entire Pied
....nr s."ri#u nf the CarolinaS. y
...... Of this transmission system Is
.. Wis" a map uf the most highly
.,..l"Ird section of the new III
...rill Snth. Nor" than II per
... Of TIA" cotton SpindleS in
.-.r..1 ar" driven by power from
..... d. transmission lines, tn" mum
.,~ .a.iu- approximately 5.25o.noH.
r" + ou,- half the Spindl"S i'll III"
...r-ras and or"-third of the
...rr.~ i'm the entire South.
g.r. southern Power Company.
. .,r r,adurartrrs at Charlotte. has
..., ai,"d more watcrp"wcr for Us"
..- .u. rrrhIic in the two Carolina,
..r. 40 ether companies combined.
+. ur'rtr "f power durin" TIA" past
...r ug. more thnu gOp0n.0pO
.....r: hours. This amount of
.... ."., equivalent To th" power
....- -nrjId have been produced trcn
80, ,ynnn onn tnnS pr
...' 'l-ur.d on the average con
...r.ru "f coal per unit nt power
..,.r..r ,.. tho industrial plants of
.. --, rYroliuas According to
,.. .,,rrnd cotton manufacturers
. .rn.r customers: Of th" power
........ fbn usrrS of this ppwcr
900. ,..strd rn save approximately
.rnuuu.. - vra~ through tn" use If
.. ,~.,.r aS compared with tn"
. .s r,,aI I'm their own individual
AIRED .lr ice tells this newspaper .
H-' " viii Only bc question d,
", . H.s g.. cry city. town anu