Show FOR AVATER POWER new reasons tor for early develop ment ol of water power constantly ac cumulate A forcible one was div en ell in the house committee by S P weston representing tile the newspaper publishers not only is the U S largely dependent on canada toi fos wood pulp while hile the Ame americal Ameri cai stand of 0 pulpwood I 1 Is sufficient tc meet the country count rys s needs for ali the next century and much of it Is ad acena to power sites but control ot of south american paper market fiends ncnds on cheap production of paper by water power pomer in this country before the war germany supplied liec halt half of the news print paper con lu in south america and ba b practical annexation of finland anc tile the baltic provinces ot of russia germany now controls main pull wood stand of europe the ger man paper industry has been main bained during war and may be ex peeled to reach after domination 0 worlds market it if american paper industry is t to 0 have a good share ol 01 south american market water power must ie be developer developed develop ee especial ly ay in vicinity of western pulpwood forests Another reason Teason is given by secretary of the interior lane in al ai article published by review of re views john D ryan of montana told him that he intended to appl an unused plant of 0 horse power on river to reduction of manganese ore when full ca pacify is used five to ton ship can be tal taken ell oft off run to 13 brazil and put ut 1 in war service across atlantic A third reason is to be found in repeated alarms about decrease in oal consumption when demand is constantly I 1 increasing coal should be used only lor for purposes to which hydroelectric hydro electric power cannot be ap ilide in order that there may be coal to export to italy and prance france where supply is deficient use of water power enters into all i f war and commerce it would save coal labor transportation bi all and ship to an enormous extent it would put us in a strong position or commercial corn competition petItIon which SE is 0 0 follow and would go tar far to remove some of our most serious eco I 1 bornie difficulties when the bill I 1 reported to the house no delay should be suffered in making it law Ore oregonians oregonian gonian |