Show SUGGEST RESERVOIR RESER RESER- VOIR KEY TO POWER POWER POW POW- ER IMPROVEMENT Dim Dint lights In the early part of or lie Jio evening when the average fel feL ow Low wants to read his paper has in more than a fow few cuss cords and a general desire to consign consign con con- sign the powers that be ho to a warms warm warm- r s r climate The rhe light or rather tack jack of oC light without has kindled a alame alame lame within which may result In Ina a J. real ical light More i light has be- be ome the topic on the streets and amI elsewhere since politics faded Suggestions Sug Sug- for improvement as a fruition o of dark nights are beginning beghin- beghin beginning ing to come Hero Is an idea idoa that s s worthy o of some thou thought ht I i j I Simmering the problem down to its essential points it may be stated thus Ill I'll h us The peak o ot of the load is juring during the early hours of the tile even even- even I I aig ng when practically every home and Ind business house is using the maximum of power It is then that the lights are dim This condition only during freezing er el In the summer time we have haves t plenty plent of po power er because we have plenty o of water Should a condi condi- ion don arise more power I during the summer it can be supplied supplied sup sup- plied by hy simply coupling up the thel I ild plant which stands r ready dy to run runt js Is soon as ns the tho pipe lino is laid Irons from rom the tho bulkhead to the plant 1 j I Ve We have plenty of water to operate Doth plants during the spring and ami summer months It is in the win win- 1 I er that trouble I It is claimed there is a surplus of or water vatEr going over the bulkhead dur- dur l dur-l I dur-I I I ng the winter afternoons because die he load is so light that t that Ii the water i I is ms not needed there is also moro morn I than han is required to care for the power rights at the t mills in the My Ity it If Ie this surplus water could could j JO je stored during the afternoon and i used during the pe peak k load It would solve ol the e difficulty difficult it Is claimed I t A A. reservoir built back of the bulk bulkhead head nead could be he so arranged as to ake sake the surplus water going over over I he spill way and store it for the I I I peak load Such a res- res 20 feet wide feet long I and 10 feet deep would store storo 20 JOO cubic feet of water If this eater vater wore released when the peak peal oad is on it would furnish an ad I s I second foot fot of o water for 1 I nearly learly 5 hours It Is claimed that his boost at just the critical 1 time timo I I v will vill ill mark the difference between en tiro and bright lights The cost of or such mch an exp experiment would be lie very as compared with that of a jew yew plant or an extensive pipe line Une |