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Show oo i ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOP- , MENT IN THE SOUTH. No portion of our country is male- i Ing swifter or gr.-iier strides m developing de-veloping powers ol rivers and trans- I forming that into the powei of electricity elec-tricity than some states of the South. Tennessee, the Carolinas, Alabama. Georgia, and others are rapidly Justifying Jus-tifying the most hopeful predictions ot former years. The abundant wa- 1 lers emerging from unfailing springs j ot mountains and foothills are being j harnessed, while yet swltt in th'T j. .dashing brightness, to furnish horse power by the millions. While In the. 1 cities and other communities of the lower lands of several states the 1 belching stacks tell of the consump-I consump-I tion of the coals of ih Virginias and lo'her states in the production of steam for the turning of the wheels, thcro are already great plants, and others S are beinc erected to produce from ths rushing waters of numerous rivers th cleaner power of electricity to be used in great factories at the dams and 1 those at a distance, fed through the ires. We read of the rapid advance of India In the multiplication of spindles to rompcte with Lancashire In pro-d'mtion pro-d'mtion of cotton fabrics, and then o our own South, where numerous great factories already in operation at a dozen points tell of activities in the same line, and others are rapidly rls- Ing to Join their voices in the harmonics har-monics of great Industries one of the greatest enterprises in our country for developing electric power from water power, if. indeed, it is not to be the very greatest of all thus far, next to Niagara, has been commenced on the Yadkin river at Whitney, N C. This historic river narrows at this point from 1S00 feet to sixty feet, where Its deep torrent rushes through a gorpe Here it is to be harnessed for production of at least 150.000 horse power. The cement ce-ment alone for the dam and other features fea-tures of this plant will cost over a million dollars, being one of tha largest orders following those for the New York tunnels. The pow.r house will be about 600x100 feei. The greatest portion of the power will run a vast aluminum plant, which will oc- I cupy eighteen acres In the immediate I vicinity to be financed and operated j j by a French company with a capital j f of 110,000.000 There will be a sur- plus of power to drive shops at a dis- j tance. Cincinnati Enquirer. |