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Show ELECTRICAL DEVELOP MENT OF THE WEST The west will not develop ahead of Its hydroelectric development. I Hydroelectric power enterprises now urpass In Industrial Importance mining, ngtlculture, manufacturing, and transportation. For each of these four great Industries In-dustries Is dependent on hydroelectric hydroelec-tric power In great abundance for success. It is estimated that piesent spring drouth In California would take two hundred "million dollars of equipment to supply water. Yt the water 1s there for power and Irrigation but ls largely l " un itv u Unable and undeveloped form for us to help save crops, I Kvery Industry, bank, bond house, Jobber and workllng matt In the west Is Interested In Increased clctrlcal 'development. I Illustrating thlls, A. K. Wlshon of ,th San Jacquln Light &. Power Co.l of Fresno shows that his company now has 2,000 applications on fll 'for "power service, 1200 of the applications ap-plications being for agricultural ser-'vlce ser-'vlce and $00 of tho 1200 are for development of new lands, requiring new homes, barns, buildings, fences and farm equipment. I This one power company needs' $26,000,000 In the next four years to expand to meet the needs of Its ter-iltoty. ter-iltoty. Thus It makes business for everyobdy from day laborer and manufacturer to banker and bonding houses In expending 126,000,000 to 'create additional power for the public pub-lic needs It will make possible the 'expenditure at ten times that sum by individuals and Industries. The greatest pioblem of the electrical elec-trical Industry today Is that of having hav-ing the public understand what the electtlcal Industly Is doing to develop every community. |