| Show WATER VS STEAM S pk there was a time when water ac ll 11 p power ower 14 was wae considered almost a thing of the past in its adaptation as aa a motive force faroa hl to machinery but the recent progress ew of electrical engineering has placed 51 new face on the situation H gerbil a Bil Q in a 11 utah we are realizing the POLO potency day of S al water power in being a cheaper arent 1 than steam engines for the pro production 0 A of electricity and ana salt bait liase lake city i being lighted and power la is belac apin furnished ebed to machinery at prices which the generators genera to re can calm t not compete with in this particular field only a beginning 1 la V being made on an the pacific coast a and ud knotner stop may be noted in 10 tue tu e announcement aal no made from california this week that the be blue lakes blakes water supply waa was being utilized there andl and was capable of developing timao at aa much electrical energy as all niagara Ni giai agare falls referring to the last named 1 t place the buffalo N aj y express cout con contains taina IA ina the information that the price of nl agara falls falia water power in to electrical energy and dOlive delivered reca to customers in buffalo is ig to be only per horse power lor arr a year chrt if ie about ten lou cents pr ner A comparison compari aon of this thie figure alth the cost of keeping a steam engine given startling results re eulie showing at t once the utter impossibility of suo sue competition by abeam usera with those having to the cheaper power unless there are local conditions which make the cost of power a sec ec andary consideration leaving out OIL oi view the difference in tas first cost coat of machinery which is vastly in favor of tue sue inexpensive electric motor the cost ot of running a forty horsepower horse horge power steam engine for instance is in given an aa at least 8 per day against only 4 per ir day for power supplied on the niagara falls and buffalo plau and with the latter all belts shafts and counter shafts are dispensed withof with if desired and the power applied to each toach lW independently so that it ca can U b be a 4 with far greater economy forty bona power thus used accomplishes n more actual revenue producing work sixty horsepower horse power from steam which must always be kept up through we the medium of shafts countershafts counters counter balto shafts and belts thle is in a showing which should make manufacturers in the vicinity of water powers turn urn their attention as a cheap and ready source of motive force the comparatively comparative lj low cont ot of trana water power into electrical enery and the abe ease with the cao can be delivered to almost any desired spot pot Is ie eborn to be half the cost coat of hot more in 0 re than prodoc sion loo 0 of f steam hence in water power Igil ittes steam edga DOS are at a decided with the facts fact in view as they are being developed nowadays ft bould debould not be belong long in this his state before tory evar r stream affording sly any water power in the ot of a town or settlement should bin be utilized for the convenience and of the inhabitants of the egin comfort fort locality |
