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Show j ' DREAM OF IHVEHT0J1S rake SfS'1 From th0 Air to -ur- 1 nlhJgow2ctlcal Motoi-. I 3ecreF8oHFfor Year by ln I f, "rventors. y New York. South Dakota cities aro )'rX supplied ylth electric lights, ho v, Jdwer for wtflch 1s generated by arte sian wella; farm machlnv-ry Ib run. 'by f , motors, and turbine wlieeU operated I4 by the gushing wella" between the Mis souri and James i Ivors, but It has also boen left to a South Dakota farmer to dlscovor that enough electricity may bo taken from thofllr above the buttcs to furnish tho power which will' run olcctrlo lights, thrashing machines and water pumps. , Buch a discovery Is ono of the mar- , )- f vels of tho electrical world nnd a ' !. dream of Inventors for decades, but John II. Stranhnn, son 6f a wejl-todo farmer near Miller. S. D., has mado ' r tho discovery, and from. 8ully buttcs 1 mar bo "con a number of tandem box 't i Wtcs, whllo half way to Uia earth on J& ' ' No. 4 copper wlro, hangs a strango ' ' ' white box tho sir a beehive. 1 From the cbp " wires which do- i 1 l-, scond from this Pox euough electrical It m onorgy Is secured to run tho motors ''-v w,,h '""'eh tho Stranhan homo Is i , lighted, a feed grlndor and threshing I machine operated, and a big electrical 1 pump which pours water Into lrrlgat- . I , Ing ditches. t |
