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"The use of electric power is increasirig by leaps and bounds. The 

 power companies must maintain a sufficient reserve capacity m power plants 

 to accommodate increases in the demand for power as they may occur. It 

 beromes a difficult matter to predict far enough m advance 

 Each Day the increase in load which will have to be taken care of. Such 

 Brings New a prediction can be based on little else than past expenence. 

 Demands for "To take care of the general increase m load, especially 

 Electricity the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway electrification, work 

 has been com'menced on two new, large developments, one at 

 the great falls of the Missouri and one at Thompson falls on the Clark's 



The Beautiful Rainbow Falls of the Missouri Near Great Falls. 

 Fork. The Great Falls development will have a capacity of 60.000 kilowatts, 

 and the Thompson falls development a capacity of 30,000 kilowatts. 



'The Great Falls development is located about eight miles down the 

 river from the city of Great Falls, and utilizes a natural fall in the river for 

 about 85 feet, which fall will be increased to a total of 150 feet by the 

 erection of a solid masonry dam immediately above the falls. This dam 

 will have a crest line 1,000 feet long and will have an overflow section 

 desicrned to take care of the maximum flood of the river, estimated at 100,- 



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^.Montana's soil is the investment that never passes a dividend. 



