THREE GD GREAT i wat SOURCES SOURCE S OF POWER ALL bounly LIBERALLY IN EASTERN UTAH ceorge atis oti smith director of the united state states geologist survey hai has re centhy pointel out the that in low I 1 ow the world DID via beet beat manage its it ever increasing poor a load somo al all I 1 may be found I 1 la in a few con ments on the diffen diffort nce nees between theat three sources of energy enera water coal and oil off man van baa has learned how to bar ness ne flowing with great effa choncy but een mett tn th europe I cropo anil and north america only about one fifth of tile potential lohrer over has bag yet been devel alel ore I 1 to out extent only lave we succeeded in borrowing the night might ot of the element elements for the line use ani aal coave relence of mant man but we may expect our riferd to tike or on an ia cea larger share of th vase load in any power program thai that seeks to conneree con covi nerve the energy Sul piles lles in coal oil and nun of course even with the wisest utilize tion coal must again take up bur den an full deaf development lop ments of water pow cr at Is i 1 for coal is i ti tie 0 world orld great e 0 tea of heat beat and lower and the lar largent g e lit development of water pow er ie Is practicable only with coal pow cr aa an the deien delen lable 10 ever ready to meet promptly aly deman I 1 oil aal an natural gas are the popular fuel fuels regarded ae as highly efficient be he cause they are preeminently labor say av ing easily iro lucel lueel easily transport ed aad and easily 11 usel As A source of pow er these fluid fuel prevent a marked contrast with water hydroelectric energy ie is even more easily attributed and need used but water power develop ment involve involves large capital outlay and in any national emer emergency gener no quick response in water power Is pon albl the water power project projects planned to meet tho power need needs discoverer disco verel in the oure course olour of 4 our wartime expansion of in austry are even now hardly under way but nut when the large necessary nee eary invest ment of labor and material ii Is once made in water power the them outpour of energy continues for generation generations oil and rai gas on the contrary are quickly developed and quickly exhausted al at ready we realize that natural gai gas the ideal fuel is a resource reeo so 0 o temporary that its u use e form forms merely nn an incident in progress it ba has been beers a wanted as a well as a wasting resource reeo uree the lorry sorry lesson we have learned in natural gas may have its it value it if we apply the truth to our we use ot of oil un ire less we iva cheek check the increase in the con Rump tion of oil it too will be but a flash in the pan if it we leave leae the corll point of lew few for a moment and look at the power I 1 problem in out ou own country we are al ie Is to tie ste in more detail the relative petition position of water coal and oil aa an sources of eri energy ergy millions Hill ton of horse power thousands of billion billions of ton tons ard billions till loni of barrel barrels are the mea meal urea ures of our nation nations wealth in these three resources reeo uree yet no tom comparison parison is I 1 possible ble ae as we vie reduce three units to a common denominator more of true value which Is t thor use 1110 by man indeed such stalls ties of quantity are too large to bo be glaspel unless we translate trani tan late state them into nto some kind of 1 uni units ta to compare them three ro dource then we may tart start the country a present i resent total power if we a tako horse power an an sit average average figure for the potential water ater power ower of the united mates without 1 aget we f fin in I 1 that if t f fully ully de developed eloped and if used at the average loa ion I 1 far fat tor tot of of today our rivers ani atil 1 streams would just about meet t the he co countree coun trye jaent needs and would supply that amount of power for all t time ame inore ai ot air r with storage and an improved load fattor they could provide a eon pon si eld drably jr ably increased output of energy to meet the growing demand if ir however how everi we put ilia he whole burden on our roal coal mines dot tot using even the water power now used we would find that by adopting tho the best team steam practice of today the prel pres ent power requirements of this coun try coith I 1 bo be met with coal for eare ears although wei know that long be fore the end of that arlot the gna gics tr cr belth dati of tho the coal manes milnee and their in fit creased distance loin market lmh 1111 alone create power demands for min ing in and transportation that boull coo con side rally cut down tha the amount of rw er available for other uses iee the become becomes more ing ani instructive when hen we consider nalder eo its the adequacy of the petrol petroleum euill re serves of the united state states to daiv the prime mover movers of the country again adopting the beet best steam practice of today as a known in the largest public utility stations eta tiona where fuel oil li Is used and trying to carry the wl ole power ion loal I 1 of the to cantry atry with oil 11 alone we find that the oil reserves erves rr of the unit ed states alt although bough measured by bil 1 lions hong of barrel barrels would lat last only nine years and three month months without al lowing for the fact that team steam raising for power Is i but one of the many uses of coal these two figures years and nine and one fo forti rafi year years aro are sufficiently imi to make us fairly recep receptive tire to the general truth of ir eckells in lila his recent book I 1 I 1 coal iron ana NN at 11 4 1 we have jint just ai as much real chance of replacing coal by oil as ski wo we have of finding enough gold to uc it in place of steel I 1 granted the thew that we have hae not enough oil 0 o permit its it ue use here cither fiber real coal or water power can be hal wv we fa fae a the quintion quie tion of priority in use lint in any lilt list must attal ess noial uc uses in which there are so adequate substitutes in view of ali the rapid increase in the employment at of machinery fint first thought 1 be b giren given to the unique function of oil off that of ieving power the boria will alays aid aye aged uee it supply of 0 lubricant sp an 1 11 I 1 ai as the demind will be an inermae iner rae ins ing one no ale cuate substitute fol to the lubricating cile oils an o 0 greases now d rived tired from i petroleum etro leum appears to be available