Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-02 | Page 3 | Water Power of France Cuts Nation's Coal Bill

WATER P0V R OF FRANCE CUTS NATION'S COAL BILL pa R IS. Au2. ifcrntCorreepondence.) a little booklet entitled -Vacts ! nnd Figures Ragaiding Fi ance-' in which the story ot the devastated q I partments and the work of reconstruction recon-struction is visualized in a sene of , il.iesi: heing given to Americans .tailing Prance. 14 is Issued In iJsne-, iJsne-, iiph by tht Comniiaslon for the Devastated De-vastated Heglons, whose president is Andre Tard'.eu. 1 Contrasted with the burdens ot a I national d ht. seven times that ot ; l'JII and taSCS mure than four limes ..s greal are tn hopeful posslblUtiea 1 ot rapidly improving exiiort trade. the acquisition of 'he potash, irop and : steel Industries ot Alsace-l-qrraine I and the gradual development of I Prance's watcrpower possibilities. The new source of electric power la estimated at 9,000,000 horsepower; ; uf which 760,p00 horeepower haye been utilised and an additional 850, 000 hOracp6wr will he iroduced dur : Ing the coming year Now that France is so short of coal the power queatloi ' hi regarded us among the most Impor-' Impor-' taut, for each hydraulic horsepower ; is cmisldi rod equivalent lo a ton coal saved.