| OCR Text |
Show RAILROAD TRAINS TO BE OPERATED BY ELECTRICITY if the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railroad I n be SUCOeSSfullj cp crated over a distance of i"" miles In Montana b electric power as plan ned. then we must look forward to the not d. slant time when the Southern South-ern Pacific, Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Denver & Klo Grande shall be electrified and their trains moved by power generated along the Ogden and Weber rivers and other streams In Utah and Idaho The announcement of the electrification electrifi-cation of the Montana road Is something some-thing more than a rumor, as it cotnei from Secretary Fisher of President Taffs cablneL with the comment thai the fact that the r.reat Kalis Power company, which la to supply the elec trie energy, is willing to accept strict government regulation ami other terms Imposing the fullest provisions for the protection of public Interests, demonstrates not only thrit the pro visions for protection of the public interest upon which the department of the Interior Insists do not prohibit water wa-ter power development as hns be n claimed by its opponents, but that the greatest development which has yet tsken place in the practical aptllica-lion aptllica-lion of electricity can bo and ia being taken under these very provisions. The grant, which la for 50 years submit i.i readjustment every ten vear pnividm iur refill. ueui nl rate., and service, the sale of power lo the I'nited States, the state and cities ;it as low n rate as is given any other buyer and prohibits transfer of the permit with, ni approval of the secretary secre-tary of the Interior. Hnliioad managers heretofore have looked forward to the electrification of terminals, hut the placing of 450 miles of main line under electric power pow-er was Uhthoiight of until of late. |
