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Conservation Reader 



Once we had to build our mills close to the rivers to use 

 the water power, but this is -no longer necessary. Now we 

 build electric-power plants by the rivers and carry electric 

 energy more than a hundred miles to any place where we 

 wish to use it. Electricity made from the distant mountain 

 waterfall will do any kind of work for us wherever we carry 

 it. Thus we see that the river works for us in more than 

 one way. After it has created power for our factories, it 

 can be turned on to the thirsty fields, where it will se'rve us 

 equally well. 



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Great Western Power Company of California 

 Electric-power plant on north fork of the Feather River, Cahfornia, for generating 

 electricity which is carried to distant places. 



