Show ELECTRIC SERVICE INCREASES VALUES The census bureau estimated that farm values In Tulare county California had Increased over from 1904 to I 1910 A large part of ot this gain was due I Ito to electric service in the count county yet the total investment in t tie the e electric service II was less than 10 per cent of ot the gain in land values The installation of a twenty horsepower motor may change the value of a a hundred acres of ot land from 20 to per acre From 1892 to 1914 California water waterpower waterpower waterpower power increased from about to nearly horsepower Water power is not like timber coal oil minerals or other products of the public public- lands The water e is not made less valuable but more valuable valuable valuable val val- val val- by development as the power re resulting re- re i and tI the gel gele is result e sold I is to the those development requiring o t sri service of the state |