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Show I NEARBY $1 B and . YONDER I U By T. T. Maxey U Harnessing Niagara FOR untold ages "Wild waters leap-lug leap-lug down a mountain side" produced the Indescribably-beautiful spectacle now known as Niagara falls, but the tremendous energy (estimated to be (j.Oil(i.i)OO dorse power) which was Inherent In-herent in the tumbling of the Niagara river over this l(M-feet-liIgh precipice (lowed away unused wasted. 1 In an attempt to create power from tills water a canal which diverted some water from above the fall to a point at the top of the gorge below the fall was dug In 1852. This water dropping upon water wheels turned . machinery which ground Hour. The coming of electricity as power and the increased use of power spurred I lie Imagination and ingenuity of master mas-ter men toward improvement and expansion. ex-pansion. Today, all waters which the federal water-power commission will permit to be diverted are used In a world-famous power-development plant which produces almost half-a-mlllion horse power. Water now diverted pours Into a concrete-lined tunnel 3--feet In diameter diame-ter and 4.:iiKI-feet long, cut through solid rock, rotates turbine generators and returns to the river. The electricity electri-city thus produced Is sent by means of some 1,300 miles of transmission lines to users of light and power in 142 communities scattered through seventeen counties In New York state. The majority of nomes In the nation probably reap an Indirect benefit through the purchase and use of materials ma-terials or commodities which art made available by this outstanding power project, while the development of this power by water creates nn estimated conservation of $2fi.0O0.0OO worth of coal annually. A Museum of Trees WHEN James Arnold, a New Bedford Bed-ford (Mass.) merchant, died in 3S08, he left $100,000 for the advancement advance-ment of agriculture or horticulture. Translated Into 1927 results, the outcome Is the Arnold arboretum, a wonder garden, the greatest museum of trees and shrubs, perhaps, In the United States. 2S0 acres In extent preserved forever In Its present location loca-tion In a Boston suburb, and containing, con-taining, It Is claimed, a represents tlve of every known tree and shrub that can withstand the Massachusetts climate. If those who are charged with the development of this show place had appreciated 'the difficulty of the undertaking un-dertaking they might have thrown up their hands and hid in the cyclone cellar, because only a few of the plants now growing In this garden were known, much less discovered But, they took their work seriously dug Into the skeleton closets of the tree and shrub families and nothing noth-ing from a to etc. escaped them. Many trees native In other countries coun-tries hut unknown here have been introduced, countless new forms have been brought Into existence through scientific Interbreeding and sent to be tried out In practically every civilized country on the globe. In connection with this work a library of upwards of 31,000 volumes and 8,000 pamphlets, all the prlucipal books In all languages, relating to trees, In any way, have been developed. de-veloped. "If we pass In Imagination down the centuries." says Director Sargent, "it will not be difficult, judging th future by the accomplishments of n few years, to picture an establishment establish-ment able to increase human knowl edge and human happiness in ah parts of the world." ((EV 192S. Western Newspaper Union. I |