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detail of vision, just what water power is going to mean to future 

 generations is Charles Proteus Steinmetz. and his office is consult- 

 ing engineer of the General Electric Company, one of the very 

 concerns most likely to be the great monopolist of water power 

 if monopoly is going to be permitted. It is said that the General 

 Electric Company controls about thirty-five per cent, of the water 

 power so far developed in this country. The same thought has 

 been expressed, though with less eloquence and breadth of vision, 

 by a report of tlie Inland Waterways Commission : 



"Wherever water is now or will hereafter become the chief 

 source of power, the monopolization of electricity produced from 

 running streams involves monopoly of power for the transporta- 

 tion of freight and passengers, for manufacturing, and for sup- 

 plying light, heat, and other domestic, agricultural, and municipal 

 necessities, lo such an extent that unless regulated it will entail 

 monopolistic control of the daily life of onr people in an unprece- 

 dented degree." 



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taft's views. 



It is well known in Washington that Air. Taft's persistently 

 correct course in regard to the water-power question is due to two 

 members of his Cabinet, Secretary Stimson of the War Depart- 

 ment and Secretary Fisher of the Interior Department. These 

 men take a thoroughly enlightened position : they want the water 

 power developed ; they want it developed by private capital ; they 

 want a sufficient reward held out to that capital, even including 

 some possible speculative reward ; hut they insist that enough 

 power be retained in the Federal Government to prevent the 

 amalgamation of all these power sites into one great monopoly, 

 and also that there shall be opportunity from time to time to read- 

 just the I'aluation of these sites. 



DIVISION OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



HoNOLrLu, January 8, l')13. 



IIo.\. W. M. GiFFAKi). President and h^xccutivc Officer, P>oard of 

 Agriculture ruid l-^)restry. 



Sir: — I have the honor to re])ort on the work of the l)i\-ision 

 of Animal Industry for tlic nionlli ending l)eccinl)(,'r M. T'li, as 

 follows : 



nil': .\ni.K okdixancf .\xi) it.s exaci'mfxt. 



I beg to call the I)Oard's attention to the fact that the municipal 

 milk inspector. Mr. Joe Richards, has been retired from his posi- 

 tion and anotJier man appointed in his place. Mr. Richards has 

 been delegaicd for the past two and one-half years to assist this 



