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Show UNCLE SAM DEALS IN t ELECTRIC SUPPLIES Washington, Oct in Uncle Sam became dealer in electrical supplies and energy transmission material today to-day when the interior department issued is-sued an order authorizing the sale of such material to settlers on public I huds who were desirous of obtaining electricity from government water power plants. The order is expected to be of great assistance in the development de-velopment on the reclamation projects pro-jects In the west The order marks no Innovation however, for the government In December. De-cember. 1911. and July. 1912. authorized author-ized the sale of cement, lumber and building materials to settlors. The concession was found to be of great benefit to the eottlers and Incident -ally to the western countrv The aid of the government In distributing dis-tributing generated power also Is ex-l ex-l Bi :ed to work benefits. The electrical elec-trical energy probably will be used chiefly In pumping for agricultural and domestic purposes. |