Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ater power sites,are not really water power site lands at all, •for therecan be no water power site land without an actualwater power works on it. Dream water power worksare built on dream land sites, not on real land sites. The classified public lands reserved as water powersites are almost wholly subdivisions which includewater courses—creeks, river and lakes. Their reser-vation blocks the diversion of the water for waterpower or any other use. That, indeed, is the real pur-pose of the reservation—the blocking of private enter-prise in water power dev
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ater power sites,are not really water power site lands at all, •for therecan be no water power site land without an actualwater power works on it. Dream water power worksare built on dream land sites, not on real land sites. The classified public lands reserved as water powersites are almost wholly subdivisions which includewater courses—creeks, river and lakes. Their reser-vation blocks the diversion of the water for waterpower or any other use. That, indeed, is the real pur-pose of the reservation—the blocking of private enter-prise in water power development. Federal officialscould not hold up water power development directlyfor want even of color of authority of law, so they doit indirectly by reserving the land which included thewater on pretense that it is water power site land—incidentally excluding mining occupancies and pur-chases on the pretense of the greater value of the landfor water power site purposes. 40 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS [Vol. XXXII—No. 2. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE Technical Publishing Company Rialto Building, San Francicso E. B. Strong, President and General ManagerA. H. Halloran. V, P. and Managing-EditorRobert Sibley. Treasurer and Editor in ChiefC. L. Cory, Secretary and Special ContributorA, M. Hunt. Director and Special Contributor On Library Cars of all Southern Pacific Trains. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. United States, Cuba and Mexico • per year, $ Dominion of Canada Other Foreign Countries within the Postal Union Single Copies, Current Month each .25 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Changes of advertising copy should reach this office ten days in advance of date of issue. New advertisements will be accepted up to noon of Monday dated Saturday of the same week. Where proof is to be returned for approval, Eastern advertisers should mail copy at least thirty days in advanace of date of issue. Entered as second-class matter at the San Francisco Post Office as The Electrical J
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