Show FORTUNES OF THE FUTURE Will Be e G ped dJ by Harnessing Harn Wa Water Water ter tar Sunshine e eIt It is not gold silver nor copper no nor diamonds either that will make the great fortunes of the future It is the hidden power in the air the water and tho the sunshine which will build bund up the wealth We lt hof of o J Jho thi ne perfy e f rr few Y centuries This was made not long ago says St Nicholas NIchola by r a mining en engineer engineer of worldwide reputation The Time value of water power wind power and sun power as commercial factors is in deed eed to be realized It ISle that throughout th t ti world about Out electrical horse horsepower horsepower power is g generated today from water waterfalls waterfalls waterfalls falls and streams More than one quarter of this great horsepower Is generated in the United States with Canada second and Switzerland third At the lowest estimate it would re rc require require quire Some somo some tons of coal to generate horsepower continuously continuously continuously by the ordinary steam engine and allowing 5 a ton for tile the cost of coal this would represent a saving of or 0 There are thousands of streams capa ble of ot producing from to or more horsepower a few te others like Niagara the Victoria Falls FaUs in hi South Africa and innumerable falls fails of ot the Mississippi the Colorado and the time Mis Missouri with powers in this direction that seem unlimited If every part of or the mighty torrent of or Niagara was harnessed it would easily generate g sufficient electrical pow power power power er to do all the work of or this country countr But Niagara is no greater than Victo Victoria ria na Falls in tile the heart of ot Africa some say not so great in its unmeasured pos possibilities The value alue of a stream for power pur purposes poses depends upon the tile amount pf wa W ter tel flowing and also Upon its head ead that Js Is the height of Its fall fail whether in a sudden Budden cataract or in fn rushing down a aslope aslope slope and so the small mountain stream which tumbles noisily down steep slopes and a d gullies Is often ot n worth more than the broad sluggish river that flows through low level stretches of or country One cubic foot root of ot water a i second may equal in energy the total stored energy of many tons of or coal What Wh t is even n more wonderful a stream can be made to operate an n elec pump which in turn will pump the stream itself elt to levels where ordinary irrigation rr ditches could not conduct it In other words the water could bo be I used twice first for generating electric t power and second for irrigating our farms Electricity could be made to t light t and aHL heat the homes of the city and country o n population pop and run the threshing machines and anil reapers of the farmer as s well as turn the wheels of ot the Ule cars and factories The use of or wind power for ical purposes is older than that of ot any tny other But ut a windmill for electrical l generation is s one of th most recent r cent of ot i accomplishments The first windmill electric plant ever installed Ins In this or any other country was built privately by D Dc Charles Cha rl F Brush Br sh the tim inventor of the rc t lamp in at athis his bis home in Cleveland for o tie the purpose of or lighting his house and laboratory In Europe commercial windmill elec plants have hie been built Once such uch plant established At in lights the town toV 1 and an another another other windmill plant at Hamburg has been at successfully used In fn running 9 p factory A windmill electric plant at Boyle Hall flaIl Ardsley in England has a capacity for running lights in win vIn ter The windmill electric el plant found a anew anew anew new use se in an ns polar 1 r trips tip t JiS A complete t windmill electric el plant was installed ship Fram and in tho the northern latitudes electricity was thus obtained d for lighting tho the ship during the long African nights In that north northern ern em latitude where coal and other fuels are more mare precious as than gold the elec elee tile is jp a J 4 and In the future futuro nib polar exploring ships will be equipped with this new tion In the hc great prairie p rte states s tes where wh re dry weather in tn summer often withers up crops Within a single week the wind summer is constant and high They Timey are hot dry winds but their velocity is sufficient to keep ke p thousands tho sands of Q windmills In l steady opera tion and day The can pump up the Wt water er from the underground reservoirs and after afler be ing lug used for developing electrical ener energy energy gy p it is distributed ed through Irrigating aUng ditches for feeding tho the crops with I much needed moisture One windmill electrical plant should irrigate ten acres s all through the sum summer summer m mer and a score of or these could convert the desert Into hundreds of ot acres of fertile gardens On the California coast electrical pumps have raised the value of ot land from a few dollars ap at acre to and an acre There is la room for fora a million electrical windmill plants in the tho west and with their installation there would be secured from the wind winda a 0 p now new wealth w valued at M millions of dol dot dollars dollars lars tars larsEl Electric El power from sunlight appears apP wonderful than harnessing the stream or wind Solar engines for op operating operating operating pumps have hare been In use in dif ferent parts of th timp earth arth rth for several ral years now and their value In warm climates where the number of days dais of clear sunshine averages high must steadily increase inc eafe One Ono of the most successful of these solar soar machines Is I located l t 4 Rear pr n Los An 5 b y r geles eles to irrigate fruit fruit t uit land laud An auto automatic matic m stand carrying great reflectors follows the course of the J as regu reU i arly larl l as the best b l st telescope p over ever made i and the suns suns rays ras are thus reflected on a central point where the boiler boUer of at a small engine is located Within an a hour after the heat hent i of the sun raises the temperature of th thi the i water vater to the boiling point and thus cre crew creates creates ates steam and the e pumping machinery m I begins its days work and keeps it up I until sundown The power of the sun for tor heating beating has only been faintly appreciated by In the past but the prediction is j i made now no that It IC all aU the time coal oar should give out we w l soon be able to ru much of our machinery from the power of or the sun With mirrors properly arranged to focus the time rays raya upon pon one point a temperature Sf bf more than 1000 degrees has been obtained This almost equals the highest tempera temperature temperature ture turo recorded by the tha electric furnace which Is considered c today the most mos I powerful heating apparatus ever dis discovered dIscovered discovered covered As 5 there ther e is i ho limit to the number of mirrors that may ma be em employed I and as the intensity of or the hea heat increases Jes in proportion to the m of rays reflected d by the iN mirrors It is conceivable that a temperature empera my y bp obtained in time that will wili surpass any anything thing thin ever dreamed of 0 |