Show I ELECTRICITY AND COPPER Copper cntnues to boom Mines of I the red meta are eagerly sought Eastern East-ern syndicates arc buying copper shares and properties wherever they I are available A big deal was closed up ly Mr Kewhouse the other cay involving in-volving very valuable Bingham properties prop-erties One reason copper is in such demand is the part it plays In the work of electricity This magic force is revo I lutonizing industry as wel as medi cine cne Electric lights are shining almost everywhere ev-erywhere Telephones and telegraph lines are rapidly taking the place of the postal service and threaten under anew a-new system to do it altogether And the whole country Is becoming a Yer Itable network of trolley wires and steel rails In the east and south and middle west towns villages and settlements I settle-ments are connected by trolley lines and the cars are getting to be almost a thick as carriaes in some sections The electric street railway like many other progressive innovations is essentially a American product All fis principal features were Invented and developed here Europe was slow to adopt electricity a the motive power for its street car lines or tramways a they cal them over there But they I are making up for lost time now Germany I Ger-many leads the countries of Europe In the mileage of electric roads I has built iOi miles and uses 2493 motorcars motor-cars France comes next with 2465 miles and 661 cars and Great BritaIn is third by a wide margin with 946 I mies and Z52 cars Switzerland is close up with 908 miles and 237 cars while Italy has S22 miles and 31 cars Big Russia is ninth on the list with only 19 miesand 65 cars and Holands 19 miles ranks fourteenth The United tates companies operate 15000 miles of electric street railways employing over 40000 cars In their service Even Japan comparatively new to moder cvlzaton has more electric railways than almoSt any of the Euro pean nations and new hines are being bun in Austrla Egypt Indi Ceylon Cey-lon Mexico and the South AmerIcan republics America supplies not only the idea and plans for thee foreign enterprises but much of the materIal and machinery for construction and operation as well England purchases engines dynamos and motors here for her latest and best railway systems Spain patronizes us too in this respect re-spect The new electric roads in Madrid Ma-drid and Barcelona are equipped with material made In America Statisticians tel us that the pay rolls of the electric railway companies In the United States contain the names of 200000 men These include executive exeutve and operating officers electricians en glneers firemen car and track mechanIcs mechan-Ics motormen conductors inspectors laborers and several other clasifca tons Electric roads arc no longer restricted restrict-ed to city traffic and thicklysetted communities They arc being used In the development of newe lands The day is not far distant when they will tae the place of the steam roads The horse may stay but the steam loco motive is doomed I has done Its part In the mach of progress I has conquered con-quered empires But Its star Is decln log Its year are numbered |