Show THE application OF electricity it is not so many years now since the introduction of electricity as a lighting and motive emotive power like the telephone when it S first made it appearance and was scoffed at and designated as a toy it was not a first believed that the electric fluid could be utilized iced for I 1 lighting and power purposes or if at all it would be more in the way of a T novelty than for any permanent and satisfactory factory use since then however the introduction of electricity as a general motive power and as a safe and economical light has gained so in public favor that its various uses is truly remarkable and power plants and equipment are to be found in great numbers ain almost every section of the country while the new and gigantic plants now in contemplation and in course of construction bear Aes testimony of the growing popularity of this new factor in the industrial world with the introduction of electricity for uses on a commercial basis its initial ap pl cation was for fighting purposes and its use as a motive power was of slow growth even when an acknowledged success in manufacturing and in various other lines its acceptance in the mining camps of the west was chary and installations were but few and far between and it was not until recent years that the prejudice against this new innovation gave way to a keen appreciation of its real value and usefulness now however there is hardly any mining camp of any consequence in the west where electricity for lighting and power is not in general use great mills and reduction works are set in motion by this subtle fluid every mining office every plant large and small is lighted at night by its agency and even the candle in the mine has given w way ay to the soft and steady glow of the electric light the huge crusher is operated by means of electric power machine drills are driven into the adamantine rock by its use every type of machinery responds to its enery and it is daily being found that no other power for effectiveness and economy can vie with it can enter with it in successful competition |