Show I WHO OWNS THE WATER I Tho Tim samo Iamo or organized greed creed reed which hits has already exploited tho other natural resources re reo it- it sources of ot tho countr country for personal gain ain is jl now flow acting doin it its ib audacious ous and crafty b best t to secure control nho of tho water I And unless tho the public does wako wake up up- up and 1 wakes akes in wrath sternly determined to protect the remnant o of its birthright o years will win add to the thA present of coal conI kin kings s land barons and J petroleum princes a n. va vastly greater list of ot man man- archs of water And an aristocracy of wealth based on H lI O is more dan danger dancer er Gus ous than any other coal iron iron copper and Dd oil oit deposits will some Rome day bo ho ex cx hausted properly conserved tho water supply will last forever cr and wealth baseil asel on HR its control will increasing s. go 0 on in in ing to the end of time I 10 Io tho myopic and indifferent public tho idea of a n tow few men getting control of tho the water supply and of vast wealth from that control Wi will sound like liko tho wail of a a. crack brained sensationalist it will m arouse arouse- only a famous milo miJo of i ignorant con con- tempt But the rC readers ders of this mn magazine maga maga- a. a zinc zine have havo heard of the turbine water waterwheel waterwheel waterwheel I wheel thc they know what is meant b by the h. h Jon long Jong distance transmission of dee elec I pO r thc they nr lirA are able to realize what hat it ns to hand over ocr forever oro as 31 asa asa a freo fren gi gift t to a R h littin coterie oterio of men th tho absolute control of tho the incalculable power developed de bv In- InthA tim thA rivers and streams of the Un United States And pm pray God once lou once they do 10 understand the situation they thoy will not smile hilt but smite Tho con cress of th the tho United States Stales and the legislatures of the tho various states tates are arc th the tho danger points which must bo he constantly con watched if tho the people are arc to be bo saved paved I a cd from front spoliation When the first cost of a water power development and distribution plant havo hao been met it will put the richest gold JoM mine mino to shame in tho the potent matter matter mat mat- ter of profits In the tho latter case caso the tho supply of oro must be bo cont continually dug from deeper anti and de deeper p r levels th this s oro ore must be bo crushed and the Jol gold extracted at a n considerable cost for labor Jabor and materials ma ma- tennis and every ery night t the e mine mino owner JO goes goei to lo bed heft with the fear that on tho the morrow morro his hi rich veins may mar pinch out into lute a n stratum of worthless schist The Tho owner of a water power on the other hand if tho watershed of the stream which Jl he controls control is jJ protected and and this work the people will will- he ho forced ee for compelling llin reasons renson to do at It their own expense c. c matter who gets ts tho the inci incidental ben benefit may fit ma may sit snugly at home lionie knowing that th at no cost for raw mw materials no iio co cost t of manufacture or for tor labor save labor the trifle required for tho the upkeep and nJ management of his plant plant his his spinning turbines will vill deliver every d day r ami anil twenty four hours bours each day lay 2 o l a available and where llert within OO miles at the ene end of a n copper wire the tho size sizo of a n man mans man's s thumb And in an any market such power is worth orth upwards of 20 per pel year for each unit Most comfortable of nil all all tho the Lapp bapp happy owner of u a perpetual water waterpower waterpower po power franchiso franchise rests secure in the that humanly speaking the golden n stream will wilI to tho the end of time timo pour its Cort hundred or two hundred thou thousand and dollars a n year into the distant money baJ bags of oC h his most remote dc do- Henry II IL lIy Hyde e in I ary nry Technical Magazine |