. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Great Hountain Streams. Those who are familiar with the im-mense power for manufacturing purposestaken from mountain streams in Switzer-land and other countries are surprisedthat so little use has been made of run-ning waters so abundant in the UnitedStates. Niagara Falls has, of course, beentouched, but that case merely emphasizes this hemisphere, from which rivers of icewater of abundant volume and rapid de-scent constantly flow. According to theMail and Express, it is proposed to im-pound
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Great Hountain Streams. Those who are familiar with the im-mense power for manufacturing purposestaken from mountain streams in Switzer-land and other countries are surprisedthat so little use has been made of run-ning waters so abundant in the UnitedStates. Niagara Falls has, of course, beentouched, but that case merely emphasizes this hemisphere, from which rivers of icewater of abundant volume and rapid de-scent constantly flow. According to theMail and Express, it is proposed to im-pound a part of this melted snow and ice,,and use the water power to develop elec-tric currents, which can be transmitted tothe place of their use, for trolley railwaysor for factories. wheels to be installed will produce theestimated equivalent of the power of20,000 horses. Other tubes and wheelscan be added when there is a demand formore power. It is calculated that fromthis glacial source can be derived powersufficient for all the industries of thePuget Sound Swiss, who are utilizing water. the absence of efforts to utilize other greatopportunities. This apathy toward opportunity is aboutto be broken by certain enterprising peo-ple in Washington State. Moimt huge peak, thirty miles from PugetSound, whose altitude is feet, asolitary cone, rising out of a level plain,has a cap of ice said to be the largest in UNION PACIFIC EXPRESS TR.\IX. For this purpose the first dam is build-ing at a point 1,900 feet above the seaand thirty-five miles from Tacoma. Fromthis dam, just below the junction of theMowich and Puyallup rivers, the waterwill flow eleven miles through a chan-nel to a reservoir. Thence the water willfall feet, through steel tubes, uponturbine wheels. The first four of these power in a similar fashion, have namedtheir glaciers the white coal of theAlps. This compact description willapply with equal fitness to the eternalice cap of Mount Tacoma
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