Evening star., 1927-03-23
ELECTRICAL SPURT
IN SOUTH FORESEEN
development and AmaIgama-
tlonS Are Making Strides,
/ Says H. D. Shute.

Superpower electrical development
proposed in the Northeastern section
OF the United States is now an actual
lty in the Southeastern portion of the
country, which is making rapid strides
IN electric development and amalga-
nations that will permit of transmits
SION over great distance. according to
& ID. Shute, vice president of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacture
ing Co, who was here yesterday
conferring with officials of the Poto-
mac Electric Power Co. Mr.. Shute
ana A. A. Brown, assistant to the
vice president of the Westinghouse
Co, are on their way North after an
extensive tour of the South and
Southeast, looking into possibilities for
expansion and development of the
electrical industry.
So widespread has been the ad-
vance of amalgamations and tie-ups
of electrical companies in the South
Tor transmission purposes that the
entire South and Southwest is criss-
crossed with a network of electrical
transmission lines, carrying electric
1ty into remote hamlets and to great
industrial centers and aiding in the
industrial rehabilitation of the South,
Mr.. Shute said.
Foremost in Program.
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Georgia are foremost in this de-
velopment, and even Florida, though
lacking in water power. has made
great strides forward in electrical
development and transmission. A
100000 horsepower plant is now in
process of construction in western
North Carolina and similar projects
are under development in eastern
Tennessee and in Georgia.
Il have never seen a section of the
country that looks as prosperous as
the South and Southeast" Mr.. Shute
said.
One of the gigantic power projects
thRt are well advanced in the South is
tie-up of power lines between (eor-
g1a and Chicago, by which power de-
Feloped in Georgia may actually be
transmitted and used in the city at
the foot of Lake Michigan. This DOW
er line will go through Danville, Ky.
southern power plants are using both
water and coal to develop their power,
with the great Muscle Shoals plant the
outstanding hydro-electric develop
ment in the South, Mr.. Shute said.
Sees Huge Development.
Even now, with the awakening con-
sclouSneSS of the Southern people to
the great possibilities for hydro-elec-
trio development along the rivers that
run eastward from the Southern Ap-
nalachians, Mr.. Shute sees great un-
developed power possibilities and fore
casts a. tremendous development of
hydro-electric power on the Atlantic
seaboard within a few years
One of the newest wrinkles in power
transmission, he said, has been
brought into play in central Indiana,
where power transmission is controlled
In remote sections by wireless tele-
phone, wired wireless" Electrical
impulses that open and close electric
transmission circuits are in use in In
diana to make and break the circuits
that control the great transmission
lines across the State.
The South, getting away from the
principle of putting all its eggs in one
basket, has not been tremendously
hard hit by the depressed price of cot
ton, Mr.. Shute said. Other crops have
tided the southern farmer over the low |
cotton price period and kept him from |
ruin.