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Show DflU haould have accomplished more in a legitimate field of endeavor than Jhas Mr. Schmaltz, and his triumph, therefore, should beckon others j to this land of wonderful possibilities. I RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE.3;40 : . . ent .:., ooutheast of J - mountains near the mouth of Weber canyoj , . - . .s-- through which the Union Pacific railroad find3 a natural passway, is one of the few fanners in this region of natural water power sites, who has harnessed a spring welling well-ing from the mountain aide and has made it perform a multiplicity of duties. Three years ago this farmer conceived the idea of having his own electric power and light system, and though he knew nothing of volts and amperes, direct or alternating currents, he set about to construct a pipe line and a power house and install a water wheel and a dynamo, and string wires to his farm house. As a result, he c has enjoyed all the electric conveniences of-a city, and today his wife polishes his shirts with an electric iron and at night the family bums tungstens without the buzz of a meter, that erratic machine which presents to city folks, once a month, bills of uncertain pro-portions. pro-portions. More than that, Mr. Schmaltz has freed his orchard fr,om moths by placing incandescents among the trees and under each light a milk pan of water, coated with a film of kerosene. The bugs, attracted, by the bright lights at night, drop in the pan and die, and the trees escape a pest that in other orchards make wormy fruit. This country electric plant is a comparatively inexpensive, simple thing. From a spring flowing seven-tenths of a second-foot of water a 400-foot flume conveys the water to a pipe 120 feet long, made up of eight-inch, six-inch and three-inch cast iron pipe, which was bought second hand for $15. The water has a fall of 56 feet in the 120 feet and through a 1 1-8 inch nozzle it plays on a two-foot Pelton wheel, which was purchased for $95. Connected with this wheel is a two- brush $65 dynamo which, making 1,850 revolutions per minute, generates gen-erates current for 20 sixteen-candle power electric lights. The water wheel also operates a machine in which 10 bushels of corn is chopped in an hour, the dynamo and chopper requiring five horsepower. With an outlay of $15 for the pipe, $65 for the dynamo, $95 for the Pelton and $50 for the power house, and a small additional sum for the lumber flume and wiring, or a total less than $300, this4 farmer has at his command at all times of the year a power which lifts a big load from his shoulders in feeding the stock, caring for the orchard, sawing the wood, and his family can apply the same force' to running the washer, propelling the sewing machine, heating the irons and dispelling the darkness of night. Mr. Schmaltz says that the country home, where a little stream of water gurgles from the rocks, is sadly unmindful of nature's mur-murings, mur-murings, calling for a higher duty, if the water power is not converted con-verted into electric energy and made to serve a useful purpose. This man Schmaltz is not only a farmer with a mechanical head, but he is somewhat a solid business man. Twenty-four years ago he worked on a barn, known as the Dee livery stable. He accepted for his wages a horse. He traded the animal' for 100 head of ewes. Locating where at night he now reads by electric light, he built a rock house, contracted to buy 200 acres of grazing land for $740, and settled down to the hard grind of rearing a family of eleven , children and raising a band of sheep. He endured four years of Clevelandism, during which he sold wool at 6 1-2 cents a pound and was forced to retain the wethers for lack of a market, but gradually he won prosperity, and, as a result of that struggle, he is today rated a man of affluence. He owns property in Ogden, has his home farm and is monarch of all he surveys on 43 sections of land purchased from the Union Pacific railroad. This year he disposed of $8,000 wool, $10,000 of lambs and $4,000 of wethers, or a total of $22,000, and he enters the winter with 8,000 head of stock sheep. There are very few places in this or any other country where, with a beginning so humble, even the most industrious and far-seeing |