Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-06 | Page 6 | Sweden to Take Copper.

I S' S TO T 1 TAKE SI Six SIv Million Pounds Needed to Electrify I Hoi Hal broad Boston Oct 6 5 Dome Domestic tc copper coppet producers have been Informed that about poun pounds s of or electrolytic copper of or American manufacture will wiil willbo wH L bo be required for the tho electrification 0 of oC 1310 miles o of railroad in Sweden The Tho conw conversion from flom steam to electricity r has been boen decided upon and work worl will wH be begun ear early next year car rite Tho t work Is I to be done on all al the lines line Jnes north norh o of Stockholm except the tho Char Char- Laxa and the tho Gothenburg Gothen Gothen- bur burg it lines The system will wl be fed led from five ve power stations the current being steeped down from froni 3 35 5 sub sub-staton sub stations Another understanding which Is In Interesting interesting In- In the lar larger er domestic copper producers is the appointment of a special commission lon by the the el city of ot Paris to plan a transmission lon of 01 hydroelectric hydroelectric hydroelectric hydro hydro- electric energy from Rhone river to Paris Part a distance of 27 miles The Tho requirements of oC Paris from this proposed proposed pro pro- po posed ed plant are arc estimated at 65 mil mit- million milon mi- mi lion lon kilowatt hour