ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION OF WATER POWER. 741 



one between Lauffen and Frankfort, during the exposition at the 

 latter place some years ago. This distance is one hundred miles, 

 and, although the work was experimental and only intended to show 

 what could be done, it was entirely successful, notwithstanding that 

 the amount of power transmitted was only three hundred horse 

 power. 



From the few examples given in the foregoing paragraphs it 

 can be seen that the electrical transmission of water powers to points 

 where they can be conveniently utilized has passed far beyond the 



Interior of Generating Station. Big Cottonwood Power Company. 



experimental stage, and that the business of supplying apparatus 

 for such purposes has already assumed large proportions, with every 

 prospect that before long it will be a very important, if not the most 

 important, branch of the electrical industry. 



A contemplation of the results that may follow development 

 along this line must lead to the conclusion that manufacturing cen- 

 ters will be materially changed. In many kinds of industry power is 

 used so extensively that its cost is an item of the greatest importance, 



