WATER-POWER ON A SOUTHERN RIVER 

 Typical Reservoir. Dunlap Dam of the North Georgia Power Co., on the Chattahoochcc 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 he 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. 



Watcf'powcr and Waterway Extension 



IT IS also beyond doubt a very eas- 

 ily demonstrable fact that the sale 

 of water-power created by reservoirs 

 ^ucli as are spoken of here would be a 

 source of large income to the Mate. 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 tin- 

 technical mind to grasp the immensity 

 of this pha-e of the matter, or to con- 



ceive of the tremendous income l>>th 

 in sale of power and in saving of c< >al 

 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 sen uis 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 <'one commercially at a 

 gooil profit. Much more so then, can 

 it be done when the distance of trans- 

 mission j- only a very few miles, ,,r 



nothing at all. If Pennsylvania will 



undertake the construction of a s\stem 

 of storm- water reservoirs and all-the- 

 ycar-round \\ater\\avs. ami carry the 

 plan through to completion and utili- 

 xatiou. she \\ill do these things: She 

 will insure a permanent timber supply 

 for the State; sin- will insure a per- 

 manently prosperous rural community 

 and, therefore, the same sort of busjn.-s 

 community: she will put her coal sup- 

 ply in a jx'-ition where it need never 



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