Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY JANUARY 28 1917 N W ar Forces New Ideas for France Nation Has Begun to Harness Waterfalls in Mountainous Regions United States 27 — The water power PARIS Jan Alps the Pyrenees and the central mountainous region Is playing: a big: role In the military effort of France in the after war economic struggle Many new hydraulic power plants born of the war needs are turning out shells chemicals and other ne- cessities for the army Many others born of the coal famine and its les- - sons will replace steam power after the war France utilized 13 per cent of its total estimated natural water power in 1914 She was utilizing more than 20 per cent in July of this year and the proportion is every day increas- ing Competent engineers fix at 4600-00- 0 horsepower the energy France could secure from its waterfalls at low water while 9200000 horsepower is the estimate for average seasons The total steam energy used In France be- fore the war was only about 3600000 horsepower divided among about 64000 establishments The water power of the Alps has given the name of the “Vale of Aluminum” to the valley of the Arc where 93000 horsepower is used transforming alumine into aluminum bars La Romanche in the wild valley from Bourg d’Oisons to Pont do Claiz is the "valley of carburet and metallic alloys” absorbing 62000 horsepower Electric steel plants are concentrating in the basin of the Arly where one concern has installed a complete mill with electric furnaces run by turbines of 22000 horsepower Seven Important new plants are being built in the region of Grenoble The electric motor is counted upon also to solve the problem of farm help Coin regions accessible to current operative societies are being formed to buy current for distribution among the members the installation of a pow-station Is being cdnsldered by one of them A law to encourage and help such projects Is now being considered in the chamber Electric energy for Paris brought from the Alps Is the most ambitious A dam project for tho future at Genissat backing the water up fourteen miles to the Swiss frontier will furnish a fall sufficient to operate a power station of 325000 horsepower and 210000 kilowatts The energy is to be transported to Paris in the form current under a of an alternating tension of 120000 volts The line of transmission will be 812 miles long One hundred and twenty million francs is the estimated outlay— the cost of about a day and a half of war to france This enterprise would alone economize 1800000 tons of the 20000000 tons of coal France imported annually before the war Engineers figure that current brought from the Swiss frontier may be sold with sufficient profit in Paris at 3 centimes a kilowatt hour an economy of about 50 per cent on the coft of current produced by steam before the war ompany j i j BUYERS OF 'V Ores and Concentrates er Matte and Furnace Products Shipments should be consigned to United States Smelting Company Midvale Utah and bills of lading forwarded to the United States Smelting Company Salt Lake City HOUSE OF LOROS IE ON APPLICATION TERMS QUOTED To the United States Smelting Co Newhouse Bldg Salt Lake For First Time in History Upper Chamber Has Larger Number of Members London Jan 27 —The house of lords this year for the first time in history has more members than the commons The membership of the lower house is fixed at 670 while the roll of the upper house has increased during the past year by nineteen to 637 The house of lords would have been still larger but for the fact that minors succeeded to several peerages while three peerages became extinct through lack of heirs — the baronies of Llangattoek and Somerhill Twenty-on- e new peerages were created during the year Including Lords Astor Beresford Rhondda Shaugh-ness- y and Viscounts Grey and French There are five new peers whose choice of titles has not yet been announced — Max Aitken John Dewar J A Pease Stuart Wortley and Edward Partington Six titles have been temporarily removed from he roll of the house by the succession of minors to the earldoms of Feversham Longford Kinnoull and St Aldwyn and to the viscounty of Ridley and a lady to the barony of Lucas The barony of Scarsdale has a lapsed because the heir already held higher grade in the peerage Earl Cur-zo- n of Kedleston Three peers who were "Infants” at the opening of last year— the Earls of Carlisle and Lathom and Viscount Gage — have 3ince come of age In addition to the four peers whose death led to the extinction of titles and to the six who were followed by children or women sixteen died during the year The Earls of Longford and Feversham and Lord Lucas were killed in action and Earl Kitchener died on war serOther deaths included Lord vice Burnham the Earl of Sandwich Lord Redesdale and the Earl of Essex Five old baronies wer revived during the year and another old title was restored in the granting of a viscounty to Lewis Harcourt Fitz-hardin- City ge Tke United States Smelting Company is a Subsidiary of the United States Smelting Refining an Naming ompany PLANTS AT MORE MONEY NEEDED FOR JEWISH RELIEF New York Jan 27 — If the Jewish war sufferers in Russia are to survive the winter $275000 monthly must be contributed by the Joint distribution committee of funds for Jewish war sufferers according to a cabled message which that organization announced torom David R day it had received Francis American ambassador to VIOLINS Mandolins Guitars and all other string instruments Mention this magazine and ask for catalog and trial offer Dajmei-Bedj- e Musicefik Bj Gold Road Ariz La Harpe Kansas Midvale Utah Grasseli Ind Iola Kansas Kennett Cal Chrome N J Cheeotah Okla Needles Cal Pachiica Mexico Altoona Kansas |