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Show ELECTRIC FORCE.- "Electric energy will be profitably transmitted 500 miles or more within a short time," is the statement of Danville Decker, local manager of the Utah Light & Railway company, and then will come the harnessing of more water power and the converting of coal energy into electric power at tho coal mines and the transmission of that subtle power to distant centers of population. The problem of long-distance transmission trans-mission has been solved, but the com-rerclal com-rerclal use of long-distance power is a question of the returns to be obtained obtain-ed on the capital invested. With heavy copper wires thoroughly Insulated, Insu-lated, carrying a voltage of 100,000, electric power can be sent a distance in excess of 500 miles. With the cost of building a power ilnc somewhat reduced, it would bo possible to generate power at tho big coal mines of Wyoming and transmit the power to Ogden at a cost por horsepower below that which is now Involved in producing power from coal delivered from those same mines. . The field of electric power Is enlarging en-larging and, looking Into the future, it is impossible to limit the possibilities possibil-ities of that mysterious energy. |