Show Triumphs of Science I 0 rJ wo immense water power plants have been completed during during dur- dur ing the p prent ent y year r one at Keo Keokuk uk ukon on the Mississippi river and one ne near r Chattanooga on the Tennessee river Both have required required re- re I the highest engineering skill esp especially the one on the i Tennes Tennessee ee for there the foundation rock was found to be fill filled with ith seams and had to be doctored by filling t the e seams with cement ce cement ce- ce ment a most tedious operation The plant on the Mississippi will supply St. St Louis miles distant with light and power besides a score of lesser places s. s It is i exp expected that that- the plant on the Te ne see will fill the region around it with great manufacturing turing Luring plants thus giving Tennessee a market close at home I Ifor for an all its food products give thousands of men employment at generous wages and add perhaps per cent to the wealth or Ol I It at t least to the money in circulation in the state stale But when we I top stop to est estimate the saving Raving of fuel uel through these two plants i alone we ve can realize that when an all our large rivers are treated in inthe the same way it will vill mean that th the endurance or of orthe the fuel supply l of the country has been doubled and ana that when Ute the industries of I the country begin to slow down men need f fear ar that with the I exhaustion of fuel mankind win will be left helpless The great l rivers ivers vi vill take up the worlds burdens and call from the sun the element which will supply the needed heat and light Science e solve nearly all the difficult problems of the world 1 |