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Show I WHEN OGDEN IS HEATED BY ELECTRICITY The merging of all the power companies com-panies of tho intermountaln country Into one organization, and that the General Electric company seems to j bear out the following from an east-I east-I ern paper, written by that reform writer, Mary Sullivan 'It takes pains, and art In the ti6e at words, to make clear just why a I water-power monopoly belongs in a Wholl different class fTOlB any other kind of monopoly, and no amount! of clearness in the u6o of words will i accomplish it unless the reader has the imagination to see the relation 1 which water power i colng to bear i to the civilteatlon of the future The, most distinguished electrician In the United States, one of the few men whose unique qualities entitle them, in a literal and exact sense, to he described de-scribed aB geniuses, has said that a time is coming In this countrv when there will bo no such thing a run-nlng run-nlng stream. He says thai every drop of water will be stored In dams and reservoirs, and Its fall toward the sea will h permitted to take place onl at I nigh nams wnere power Will D sen-1 erated for every form of labor In every ev-ery household, not merely for running railroad trains and factories but for cooking and Ironing and the routine duties of homes The man who has thus pointed out, In an extraordlnar detail of vision, Just what water power pow-er Is going to mean to future generations gener-ations is Charles Proteus Sielametz, and his office is consulting engineer of the General Electric company, one of the very concerns most likely to be the fcreat monopolist of water power ii if monopoly Is going to be permitted. It Is said that the General Electric company controls about thlrty-flve per cent of the water power so far developed In this country." Hero In Utah. the day Is not far distant when the mighty forces of the consolidate! power plants will be harness- ; ed to tho railroads and made to do the service of steam engines And a well-posted Ogdcn electrician has said that eventually Ogdcn homes will be heated by electric current from our near-by hydro-electric plants. Ogden river should have half a doz-, doz-, 1 en power plants along Its banks from the mouth of the canyon to the head-J head-J waters. |