. Journal of electricity . cal year 1920. On the import side, $40,000,000 worth of sisal, a substitute for hemp, heads the list and $26,000,000 worth of crude petroleum comes second. The biggest export items are $7,000,000 worth of iron pipe and $6,000,000 worth of cotton cloth. ^ ♦ * No one has taught us a more valuable lessonthan the rags-bottles-sacks man. He was the firstto make a business of saving the waste. A smallpart of the result of this lesson is the sale, duringthe past ten years, of more than $14,000,000 worthof fuel briquets made from waste coal and wastepetroleum residue. In fac
. Journal of electricity . cal year 1920. On the import side, $40,000,000 worth of sisal, a substitute for hemp, heads the list and $26,000,000 worth of crude petroleum comes second. The biggest export items are $7,000,000 worth of iron pipe and $6,000,000 worth of cotton cloth. ^ ♦ * No one has taught us a more valuable lessonthan the rags-bottles-sacks man. He was the firstto make a business of saving the waste. A smallpart of the result of this lesson is the sale, duringthe past ten years, of more than $14,000,000 worthof fuel briquets made from waste coal and wastepetroleum residue. In fact briquets are becomingso popular that the Susquehanna river is to bedredged for refuse coal to be used in their manu-facture. 154,000,000 acre-feet is the annual discharge ofthe Columbia River at the Dalles. This is onlyone of the water powers whose energy Portlandhopes to utilize in its program of developingindustry. HELP PORTLAND PUT IT OVER 436 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY [Vol. 45—No. » r^ 3HE BEE s PERSONALS ^E 3HE 35. Admiral Joseph Lee Jayne, former commandant of theTwelfth Naval District and recently made commandant of the Pacific Train Fleet of thePacific Fleet, has contributedinestimably to the develop-ment of the West in present-ing feasible plans for andurging the construction of acauseway from Oakland toGoat Island for the purposeof making the latter a greatbay terminal. A map pre-sented elsewhere in this issueof the Journal of Electricitypictures the enormous indus-trial, financial and commer-cial center which vdll be madepossible by the actual fulfilment of this project which hasbeen the dream of the Bay region since 1869. After his grad-uation from the U. S. Naval Academy, Admiral Jayne stud-ied at Johns Hopkins University where he received a certifi-cate in applied electricity. During the Spanish-Americanwar he was commander of the torpedo boat Rogers and sincethat time has been commander of various vessels includingthe U. S. S. New Jersey and Mississippi and D
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