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Show ' Water Power Developed and Undeveloped Totaling 54,000,000 Horsepower By JOHN B. MILLER, Southern California Edison Company. p In the United States today there is water power developed and undeveloped amounting to 51.000,000 horsepower. Seventy per cent of this water power is west of the Mississippi, and, of this 0, 40 is in the Pacific Coast and Mountain States and 23 is in the three Pacific Coast states. At the same time there is in the United States IH.300,000 horsepower horse-power in prime mover power, but of this 03,000,000 horsepower is in loco-motiv loco-motiv i which should not perhaps be used in this analysis, or at least tint all of it. Of the balance, 23,000,000 ia used by public utilities and 26,000,000 by manufacturers, mines and q.iarries. Of this prime mover power 70 is located ta.4 of the Minsbtiippi and 30 west of the Mississippi. Now if water power were substituted for steam power, asonming the development of all of the 51,000,000 potential water power resources of the country, the saving in coal per annum would be 600,000,000 tons, the value of which on a pre-war basin would be $2,000,000,000. The equivalent saving in oil would be 2,000,000,000 barrels, with an approximate approx-imate Value of $5,000,000,000. At prevent prices the values wonJd lie-nearly double or $4,000,000,000. Its equivalent in man power would be 648,-000,000 648,-000,000 mcu working eight hours a day. |