White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-04-10

Under the heading Worlds Great
est Power Plant planned for U. 81
the New York American (New York
City, published the following copy
right article which goes into some
detail in dealing with the uses to
which a part at least of the enormo-
us power to be developed at Priest
Rapids will be put. The article deals
principally with the manufacture of
aluminium and chemical products,
the American rights for which were
purchased by Mr.. Pierce while in
Europe a year or SO ego. The arti-
Gle follows:
Henry ]. Pierce, president of the
Washington Irrigation & Develop
ment Company, fostered, though not
financed by the General Electric
Company, announced yesterday thru
the New York American from his
office at No. II Broadway the de-
tails of the worlds greatest in
dustrial power and industrial chem
ical project.
The undertaking, to which Mr..
Pierce has given ten years effort
comprehends establishment of water
plant on the Priest Rapids of the
Colunb'a River, Washington Of more
than double the horse power of
Muscle Shoals and comprehending
an ultimate private expenditure of
500, 100000.
In making his announcement Mr..
Pierce said the United States would
acquire its first great independent
plants for the manufacture of cheap
aluminium in competition with the
aluminium Company of America and
of magnesium metal from the raw
product, meaning the dawn in the
world of a Lighter Metals Age.
Cheap electricity sold publicly at
a quarter the cost of steam power,
and used for aluminium, duraluminum
and magnesium metals, will make
all-alurninun bodies for automobiles
universal, he said, and provide the
means for the tremendous expansion
of the United States in commercial
land military aviation.
Following the conclusion of ne
gotiations for the selling of 100000
horse power to great chemical and
SO per cent pure electrolytic iron
plants, work will be begun immediate
ly on the major development, he said,
which means the establishment of a
new model city between Seattle and
Spokane of 10000 people.
The War Department since the
vast project means a tremendous
means of national defense, is keenly
interested in the chemical and power
phases and eventually will build in
Washington great arsenal, natur-
ally protected by mountain range
to westward. The government will
also ultimately establish nearby
great aviation post, by means of
which, with airplanes. the biggest
chemical plants in the world will
be defended.
Mr.. Pierce. in explaining the scope
OF the undertaking said:
There will be half-dozen major
chemical plant operations dependent
upon the enormous power developed,
the greatest possible west of Niagara.
These will be adjoining the longest
dam in the world, two miles diagonal
ly across the rapids, ninety feet high,
100 feet thick at the base and fifty
feet wide at the top. This will be
located thirty miles west of White
Bluffs on the. main Columbia river
near the present site of a small
5000 horse power plant we have.
The river rapids there have a flow
of $4,000 second feet in winter and
100000 second feet for most of the
year, or twice that of Niagara. The
chemical plant will include a liquid