. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ws on the Only Railroad Owned and Operated by the United States Government Uncle Sam has assumed new dignityin the role of a railroad president andtrains run regularly over the new govern-ment railroad from Boise to , equipment and building mate-rial are being earned by this railroad tothe town of Arrowrock, where the armyof more than 1000 men are at workerecting the highest dam in the will hold back flood and excess watersof the Boise River for the purpose of est, proportionally to their si :e, andthat all are incredi
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ws on the Only Railroad Owned and Operated by the United States Government Uncle Sam has assumed new dignityin the role of a railroad president andtrains run regularly over the new govern-ment railroad from Boise to , equipment and building mate-rial are being earned by this railroad tothe town of Arrowrock, where the armyof more than 1000 men are at workerecting the highest dam in the will hold back flood and excess watersof the Boise River for the purpose of est, proportionally to their si :e, andthat all are incredibly strong when com-pared bulk for bulk with horse can scarcely bear two thirds ofits own weight, while one small speciesof June beetle is able to lift l>1) limes itsown weight. Were the strength of manin proportion to that of the beetle, itis pointed out, he could play withweights equal to ten times the weight o(a horse. CHEAP POWERFORTHE SOUTH Great plant ai Hales Bar ontheTennesseeRivei; 2p Classed with ^R Niagara and Keokuk. With the completion and dedication ofthe nine million dollar lock, dam andpower plant at Hales Bar on the Ten-nessee River near Chattanooga, Novem-ber 13, 1913, a large locality of the Southwill be brought by a supply of cheappower into a well merited place as one ofthe leading manufacturing sections of theUnited States. This great hydro-electric development,begun in 1905 by the late Anthony of New York and since his deathfostered by his interests embodied inNicholas Brady, is in the front rank ofsuch projects in the United States, beingclassed with Niagara and Keokuk. Electrification of southern industrieshas a peculiar significance because of theunlimited supply of coal which is beingmined throughout that section, thou-sands of acres of deposits as yet being un-touched. Much of the coal mined now isused in making steam to drive factorywheels, whereas, with water doing thatwork, this section of the South willeventually become m
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