WATER-POWER ON A SOUTHERN RIVER 

 Typical Reservoir, Dunlap Dam of the North Georgia Power Co., on the Chattahoochee River at Gainesville, Ga. 



railroads can be reserved for the trans- 

 portation of perishable freights and 

 passengers, our coal supplies can be 

 conserved — and the freight rates on 

 heavy merchandise can be materially 

 lowered. If the application of this idea 

 to the state of Pennsylvania alone, and 

 to the Ohio River only from Pittsburg 

 to Louisville, cost a hundred millions of 

 dollars, it would still be well worth do- 

 ing, and would still pay good returns 

 on the investment. 



Water-power and Waterway Extension 



IT IS also beyond doubt — a very eas- 

 ily demonstrable fact — that the sale 

 of water-power created by reservoirs 

 such as are spoken of here would be a 

 source of large income to the state. It 

 is, in fact, easily conceivable that the 

 returns from such sales would provide 

 funds for the maintainence of the en- 

 tire system. It is not easy for the un- 

 technical mind to grasp the immensity 

 of this phase of the matter, or to con- 



ceive of the tremendous income — both 

 in sale of power and in saving of coal 

 consumption — that could readily be se- 

 cured. Of course, long-distance trans- 

 mission of electrical power is still a 

 wasteful process ; but with industrial 

 concerns so thickly centered as they are 

 in Pennsylvania — still using that state 

 as an example — no serious obstacle 

 would have to be overcome from that 

 cause. It is no great matter to conduct 

 electrical power two, or twenty, of fifty 

 miles ; it can be done commercially at a 

 good profit. ]\Iuch more so then, can 

 it be done when the distance of trans- 

 mission is only a very few miles, or 

 nothing at all. If Pennsylvania will 

 undertake the construction of a system 

 of storm-water reservoirs and all-the- 

 year-round waterways, and carry the 

 plan through to completion and utili- 

 zation, she will do these things : She 

 will insure a permanent timber supply 

 for the state ; she will insure a per- 

 manently prosperous rural community 

 and, therefore, the same sort of business 

 community ; she will put her coal sup- 

 ply in a position where it need never 



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