Salt Lake Times | 1890-05-10 | Page 7 | A Startling Prophecy

I A Startling Prophecy. Nothing; in the future uppcars wore probable than that within the lifetime of persons now living the industrial supremacy su-premacy of Great Hi ilain will pass away with the exhaustion of Iut coal lipids. Switzerland, Italy nnd tho Scandinavian peninsula are destined to become tho tcrent .manufacturing district of F;uroje. This extraordinary industrial revolution will be brought nbout by the truiismis. sion and distribution by electrical mean of the inexhaustiblo and permanent water wa-ter power in those countries. More than a year ago in Switzerland a woolen manufactory man-ufactory with 36,000 Hpindle. with the usual complement of auxiliary machinery, machin-ery, was operated wholly by electrio power conveyed from a diidunt dream, deriving its never failing aupjily of water wa-ter from the melting of Alpine snows. In the new era tlio Swiss republic may not improbably become tho foremost industrial in-dustrial nation of Europe. Electrical Engineer.