Roosevelt Standard | 1918-10-30 | Page 10 | West Surpasses the East

WEST SURPASSES tite EAST too many eastern politicians have ct 0 heart or conception for the tice dee of lie he west they do ct rot not comprehend how the vest supplies oil lumber war metals d ships ic to tile the world they di not realize that the reg oi 31 w st qt of oc tile the has devolved ed one third of the hydroelectric hydro electric awer of our country this region has one sixteenth the and nearly halt half the ar area f the united states most alost of 0 this electric power is long distances and is Is reduced from tile the indestructible vater powers the central electric 0 C o of call cali ornia produced and distributed in in kilowatt licurs bourg H L e electric power this passed tile the record ot of the corn com co of 0 chicago hat produced of 0 elec ric power in 1917 in the confines confine s of 0 the great west re located seventy per cent ot of all ie water power possibilities of our auntry over a billion dollars is already divested in water power development ld iid with proper legislation another lillion dollars would le be vested with n ten tell years 0