The Nespelem tribune. [volume] (Nespelem, Wash.) 1934-1936, 1935-01-09
Need Is Foreseen
For Coulee Power
Industry Will Require Three
Billion Kilowatt Hours An
nually, Mines Expert Says

SPOKANE, Jan. .7-(SpeciaD "A
Pacific Northwest of glowing cleo
trio furnaces consuming annually g.
$50 900, 900 K. w. H. of electric en-
ergy in the manufacture of stream
line trains, airplanes, automobiles,
speed steel and electric transmission
trucks, armor-plate projectiles. nigh
cable is forecast by Professor A. e.
Drucker, dean of mines at Washing
ton State college, because Of the
increasing production of cheap cleo
tricity in this part Of the country"
Dean Drucker's forecast is part
of report submitted to the Column
bia Basin commission. This report
shows a prospective demand Of g.
$50 ,0OO, 900 K. w. H. annually for
certain electrochemical and metal
lurgical industries in the Pacific
Northwest over a period of thirty
years.
Raw materials in the four north
west states for the production and
fabrication of twenty products are
listed by Dean Drucker. Estimating
that the Northwest possesses the
raw materials listed, he recommends
further surveys to determine more
accurately their extent.
Predicts Huge Growth
Dean Drucker has prepared a re-
port that is one of the finest things
ever presented to the Northwest"
said James O'Sullivan, secretary of
the Columbia Basin commission.
'The report points the way to per-
iod of unparalleled development Of
our national resources, the certainty
of new industries, the coming Of new
population, and the consumption Of
electric power to be developed at
Grand Coulee dam, as well as the
consumption of the power already
available
Dean Drucker lists as located In
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and
Montana the following raw mater
ials: Magnesite ore, washed high
alumina clays, phosphate rock, lime,
manganese ore, iron, silica, chromite
ore, zinc and concentrates. sand
sawdust, copper ore and concentrate,
lead, anthracite coal, calcium car
bide, nitrogen, quartz, tungsten,
coke and sulphur.
| Manganese ore is used in the con-
! struction of stream line trains, air
planes, automobiles, trucks and ma
chinery. Washed high-aiumina is
a light weight alloy used in the
production of electric power trans
mission cables. Chromite ore is
necessary to the production of ar
NOR plate projectiles and special
and high speed steel.
"AS Dean Drucker points out, a
large amount of electric energy is
necessary to the fabrication and ap-
plication of products made from
these raw materials" said Mr.. o.
Sullivan. Electric furnaces are big
consumers of electric energy, and
this is field of power consump-
ton entirely new to the Northwest.
Will Be Power Shortage
Before the Columbia Basin COM
mission has completed it's power
study we will show that there will
be a shortage of power in the
Northwest, providing advantage IS
taken of all possibilities for devel-
opment of this country such as are
pointed out by Dean Druckcr. II
these advantages are taken, the per-
manent development of the north
west is assured"
Dean Drucker's report states that
approximately 663 tons of magnes-
ium, new structural metal, We're
produced in the U. S. in 1929. He
estimates possible annual produc-