If Coal Went Over Niagara 



Other Waterfalls 



NiaKar;i isn't tlit,- only DlfcmJcr in waste 

 power. Many a woocllaml stream like this 

 over the country is at present wasting 

 itself away, liven its be;jul\' passes unseen 



A Mighty Power 

 While we've been huddled around feebly-responsive radiators this 

 winter, while we have been enduring coal holidays and other 

 makeshift remedies, we've been allowinK the equivalent of at 

 least ten tons of coal a second to go over one waterfall, Niagara. 

 How it might look if it actually were coal, is shown above. Oh. 

 Cedrick, if that only went in a man's bins I Farewell coal famme! 



larger share of the plant owners were 

 equipped with the newer apparatus that 

 can burn poorer grades of coal efficiently 

 one large source of coal troubles would 

 disappear at once. Many of the manufac- 

 turers could start out with a train of 

 motor trucks .some morning, head for a 



mine in their own county, and get all the 

 coal they wanted, and often not such bad 

 coal at that. The railroads and all their 

 troubles would count for nothing at all. 

 A man would be his own supply and de- 

 mand. When gas and coke-making 

 plants become more general, these things 



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