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Show The United States Leads. Tho groatest successes in tho electrical elec-trical transmission of water power havo been mado in tho United States, forty-threo companies, having a total capacity of 177,300 horsepower, transmit trans-mit power over a lino dlstanco of 1,549 miles, on an avcrago twenty-six miles, with a voltngo which ranges from 10,-000 10,-000 to 00,000 volts. Tho maximum dlstanco dls-tanco over which power is transmitted transmit-ted is from Colgato to San Francisco, 220 mllos, with a loss of 25 per cent. At Colgato tho body of water is small, hut tho fall is 1,500 feet. |