Show DIG POWER PROGRAM the water power act of congress means more to the west unless hand leaped by restrictive rulea and regulations than any law ever passed it means harnessing wasting water power to steam generated from burning tons of coal and transferring manufacturing to the west possible horse power development Is credited to western states as tol lows california oregon washington idaho montana utah colorado and wyoming each no other statement Is needed to emphasize the significance of the event which declares for the earliest practicable use ot the weata water power resources coal operators of the east are atall restless their wages are high railways struggle night and day to get only a part of the coal needed to the big power plants of industry factories tn large number curtail and close because of the shortage of coal not to speak of its price congress delayed enacting a water power bill for ten years at the behest of the school of conserva and thus blocked western development |