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THE .SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAM), MAT 23, 1920 17 SHORTAGE OF POWER IS HELD IMMINENT Oregon's Demands Declared to Be Taxing Supply. GENERATION SURVEY MADE Report by Committee of Water Power Development Is filed Willi National Association. SUPERLATIVES OF WATER POWER ARE IN THE WEST. In the report of the committee on water power development, of 'which Prankin T. driffith, president of the Portland Railway, Light & Power company was chairman, submitted to the National Electric Light associ ation at Pasadena, Cal., last week, it is made clear that an actual shortage of electric power to meet demands is felt In some localities and that such a situation is impending in Oregon and elsewhere. The report is comprehen sive, comprising 30 printed pages with accompanying maps, and Is uiustraiea with diagrams and cuts portraying come of the big developments in hydro-electric plants. The personnel of the committee that served under Chairman Griffith was as follows: W. A. Brackenridge, John A. Britton. H. T. Edgar, C. G. Egbert, Mortimer Fleischhacker. H. I. Harriman. D. L. Huntington, H. P. Jackson, Frank M. Kerr, A. W. Leonard, J. D. McKee, i. W. Talbot, A. B. West lyid A. G. "Wishon. The convention was in session May 18-22, inclusive. After its adjourn ment the delegates visited some of the large plants of California and in cluded a tour of the Pacific eoaat in their trip. A brief synopsis of the report follows: Jl States la West Surveyed. Taking the 11 far western states, we find by careful survey an unusuai situation. Due to delay of the con struction programme .in power de velopments while the nation was at war, this section of the country finds itself today facing a serious situ ation, ranging from an actual short age of power to meet demands, as in California, to an impending shortage to meet growing demands as in Ore gon and Washington. With increas ing possibilities of coal shortage, the continual rise of the price of oil and the economic desirability for early electrification of steam railroads, the urge for increased water power de velopment in the far west becomes imperative. Not only are industries already existing dependent upon elec trical development, but it is believed that industrial growth on the Pacific coast and electrical development are interdependent. This is true in agriculture as well as industry. Vast areas of and and semi-arid western lands have been converted into fertile districts undei electrical pumping of water that would be impossible without its use. federal legislation governing the use of public lands and reservations is of primary importance to the west ern states in which lie nearly all the public lands and in which approxi mately 70 per cent of the undeveloped water power of the nation is found. Existing federal laws relating to power developments on public lands have unquestionably operated to ham per and restrict, if not almost wholly to prevent, such enterprises. A pol icy no doubt intended to work for conservation actually resulted in waste and irretrievable loss to the ex tent of a consumption of coal and oil which might have been avoided by the development of water power. Co-operation Is Advocated. The utmost co-operation between the federal power commission to be established under the present water power bill' before congress and the electric power industry should be in augurated and encouraged, parttcu larly along the lines of formulation and application of the rules and regu lations to be established by the power commission in accordance with the act. On these rules and regulation and on their interpretation and appli cation, will depend to a large extent the ultimate success or failure of the purpose of the act, i. e., the develop ment of the country's water power re sources. a It is esseirlial that the electrical Industry act as a unit In co-operation with the power commission and as a means to that end it is here proposed and recommended to the National Electric Light association that a per mancnt committee be appointed to represent the industry in its relation as a whole with the federal power commission. The report discusses present and potential watec'powers of the United stataes from a statistical standpoint. The latest authentic estimate shows that there are approximately 59,360, 000 potential undeveloped water pow er in the United States and only S. 823, 540 horse power of developed water power. Of the potential maximum horse power of the United States, 68.6 per cent lies in the western states, viz: California, Oregon, Washington. Arl sona, Colorado, Idaho. Montana, Ne vada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyo ming. Of the total maximum potential water power of the United States 74. S per cent represents undeveloped horse power coming under federal jurisdiction, i. e., lying on federal re serve lands or on navigable streams, wherein federal permits are required. Federal Action Held Xeded. In the western states 94 per cent of the maximum potential water pow er is in this class. In other words, practically all of the future develop ment of water power in the western states (covering approximately 70 per cent of the total potential water power of the country) will be de pendent upon federal action in the matter of issuance of workable per mits for development of these proj ects. ,4 Only 16.6 per cent of the maximum potentiol water power has been de veloped up to the present time. For the western states only this propor tion is only 6.5 per cent. It has been roughly estimated from the limited data available that some thing like 200.000.000 horse power would represent the possible maxi mum potential horse power with max imum storage facilities developed and utilized. While compared with the potential possibilities, the development in the western states has been comparative ly small, attention is directed to the present development of water power in these western states. For instance. California is shown well in the lead with a present development of 942, 000 horse power, which is 10 per cent of the entire developed water horse power of the United States. It Is. however, only 10.2 per cent of the maximum potential water power pos sibilities of that slate. Washington shows the largest maximum poten tial water horse power of any state in the union, but it ranks amoncr the western states below both California and Montana in the amount of de veloped water horse power, showing -ly a development of but 3.S per Cent of its potential maximum possi- Hydro-electric generation includes: The largest single-discharge turbine in the world. 42.000-horse-power. Wise power plant, near Auburn, Cal.. Pacific Gas & Electric company. The most powerful high-head turbine in the world. 23,$00-horse-power. White river plant, near Seattle, Puget Sound Power & Light company.. A unit of practically similar size is installed in the Long lake plant, near Spokane, Washington Water Power company. Other large units. Tbe Southern California Edison company is Installing two 22.600-horsepower, 100-head, Francis reaction type turbines in its Kern river No. t plant, while the Great Western Power company will install impulse wheels under 1000 head at its Caribou plant on the Feather river with capacity of 30,000-horse-power. The highest head plant in America. The San Joaquin Light & Power corporation plans two units under 2500-foot heads In connec tion with its Kings river project, already begun, and a similar head is contemplated by the Southern California Edison company in the Big creek development. Typical also of western construction is the 17-foot tunnel being driven by the San Joaquin Light & Power corporation to serve its Karchkoff plant, a world's record in dimensions for hydro-electTic tunnels, steam shovel being used in making inside the tunnel. Transmission is shown in the following: First long-distance transmission, 20 miles, at 100,000 volts, from San Antonio to San Bernardino, Cal. Longest high-voltage transmission, 87,000 volts and 68.000 volts. 339 miles, from Moro county, California, to Yuma, Ariz., Southern Sierras Power company. Highest voltage transmission. Present record, 130,000 volts, 240 miles, Big creek to Los Angejes, Southern California Edison com pany. The Great Western Power company is now installing a 165.000-voit line from Its Caribou plant to San Francisco. The Pa cific Gas & Electric company has in contemplation the building of. a 230,000-volt line from its Pit river plant into San FTancisco, while other western companies are planning 220,000-volt lines for the near future. Long-span aerial crossings: Carquinez Straits, Pa cific'Gas & Electric company, six steel lines, 4427 feet, for a long time the longest in the world, now second longest. longest high-voltage submarine cable. 3'A miles, 11,000 volts, Oakland to San Francisco, Great Western Power company. Dam construction is summarized as follows: Other records have been attained in the construction of dams in electric and related water development projects, a few of which may be mentioned here: Highest dam in the world, Arrowneck, Idaho, S46's feet. Greatest storage of water in America, second in world. Elephant Butte, New Mexico, 2,638,88$ acre feet. - Second greatest storage of water, Roosevelt, Ariz., 1,367,300 acre" feet. Highest rock-fill dam. Morena, near San Diego, CaU 267 feet. QUINAULT PARK IS URGED f ' CONGRESS ASKEDTOSETASIDE RESERVE Of' 1823 ACRES. Aberdeen Rotary Club Inaugurates Movement to Secure State Wide Indorsements. ABERDEEN, Wash., May 22. (Spe cial.) A park of 1322 acres on the shores of Lake Quinault may be set aside by congresa as a national or state of Washington park if action taken Wednesday by the Aberdeen Rotary club is indorsed by the state legislature in a memorial to congress. The park reservation plan represents a dream of some 20 years of S. K. Bowes, a prominent local Rotarian, who 'that .long ago walked to Lake Quinault a'nd discovered the beauties of the tract which he now wants set aside as a park. The acreage shown In maps which were prepared by an engineer for Mr. Bowes following his first visit to the lake and which were shown Wednes day to the club, has about two miles of lake front, and is crossed by two picturesque streams; Willaby and Falls creek. Some of the finest spruce and fir timber in the county is located here, and unless the region is parked, it is feared this soon will be cut. At the time of Mr. Bowesv first visit he went before public bodies, se cured their indorsement, and induced the state legislature to memorialize congress for the creation of the park. As there were no roads to the lake at that time the movement was dropped at this stage. The local Rotarians- will now ask other Rotary- clubs of the state- to take up the movement and push it to fulfillment. ' . Halfway Graduates Three. HALF WAT, Or.. May 22. (Special.) Commencement exercises were held on the campus of the high school last evening. Three students, Alda La mott, Robert Leep and Ruth ueader ick, received diplomas. Professor Co rnish gave the address to -the class. Professor Hirsch. . principal of the high school, has accepted an offer to teach in China next year.. a the Tung Wen institute at Amoy. plans to spend three years there. Baccalaure ate services were held Sunday eve ning. Rev. R. F. Jameson preaching the sermon. APPLE GROWERS ADVISED Now Said to Be Time for Closely Observing lor Spraying. - HOOD RIVER, Or.. May 23. (Spe cial.) According to LeRoy Childs, su perintendent of the Hood River ex periment station. Oregon growers should now observe closely their ap ples and apply the calyr: spray at the proper . time for control of codling moth. "This application," says Mr.-Childs, "can be effectively applied for a few days only,-following the dropping of petals and for this reason cannot be delayed. The calyx end of the apple closes in about a week after petals fall, and sprays applied after this are not effective. "Trees that are to produce but a few apples should be thoroughly sprayed In order to prevent the de velopment of the second brood of worms which will mean trouble late In the season and for years to come if neglected at this time. Where trees are found to be in a weakened condition, lime-sulphur may be omit ted. Where conditions are about normal, use lime-sulphur at the rate of one gallon to 50 gallons of water with arsenate of lead, two pounds to the hundred gallons of water." Paving Xear Carlton Begun. ' CARLTON. Or- May 22. (Special.) The Northwest Construction com pany, of Portland, which has the con tract for the grading and hard sur facing the "West Pide" Pacific high way between Yamhill and McMinn ville started its paving plant the first of the week and has completed a quarter mile. . ! i! We Are Agents for STANDARD PATTERNS bilities, and only 3.7 per cent of the total developed water horse power of the country. Oregon also shows wonderful poten tial water power possibilities, out up to the present time Only a very low percentage is developed, 3.5 per cent of the maximum possibilities of the state. These figures clearly show that, although the west has already developed some remarkable water power projects and is well up in the lead of the development of large inter-connecting networks of transmis sion systems, the water-power devel opment in this section is, . however, but begun. Washington Is Put First. In potential water power, the state of Washington stands first with 9,660,000 horse power, or 16 per cent of the total potential horse power of the United States. California is a close second with 9,250,000 horse pow er, or 15.6 per cent of the total United States. Oregon ranks third with 7,100,000 potential horse power. The coast states together represent 43.6 per cent of the total potential maxi mum horse power, of the United States. Including the states of Idaho and Montana, these five typically western states represent 61 per cent of the total potential maximum water horse power of the United States with a total of 36.210,000 horse power. Data obtained from'52 power com panies of the far-western states;, showing their loads during the pasjt ten years and also their estimated loads up to and Including 1928, has been obtained and compiled and pre sented in the report in connection with graphic charts. They show that during the next ten years the ex pected development of power in the west will rise to the vast total of 1,776.260 kilowatts, which at present day prices for material and labor will Involve an investment of over 8700, 000.000. . -. Discussion of inter-connected trunk systems already developed in the western states: In California during the year 1918-191? there were two sets of Inter-connected networks In the state one in the northern, the other in the southern portion. The control of each system was under the management of a power supervisor. As a result of this arrangement there was effected a saving of 300,000 bar rels of oil in 1919, representing $450, 000. Reference also made to inter connection between power companies in the state of Washington and the state of Oregon. The conclusion of the report sum marizes the general features of the report and urges the utmost co-operation between federal and state ad ministrative commissions and the central station companies, and also thr public itself. BIBLE STUDENTS ORDAINED EUGENE THEOLOGICAL- COM MEXCBMEVI THIS TVEEK. ' Baccalaureate Sermon Will Be t Delivered by Rev. John T. - Stivers, Pastor-Evangelist. EUGENE, Or., May 22. (Special.) The commencement exercises of the Eugene Bible university, the Jheo logical seminary of the Christian church - Of the Pacific coast, will be gin Sunday morning at 11 o'clock with the" baccalaureate sermon by Rev. John T. Stivers. pastor-eVangelist, connected with the school. A class 'of young men and women will be ordained at this service and in the evening the senior, class will have charge. Graduation exercises will be held at the First Christian church Monday evening. Following is the personnel of the class: - Classlcan ministerial course Joseph Da vid Boyd, Clinton Clyde Thurston, Henry A. Van Winkle. Classical Biblical course Dickson Pain Harriman, Florence Kirk, Lena Sfcther Nen-ton, Frank L. Purnell, Ramona Adel- phine Stover, Carroll Curtis Roberts, Will iam Phena Sutton. Ruth Ellen Williams. William Robb Baird. Zona Vernon Boyd, Edna Lawrence "Burke, David Allen Byer lee. Milton Ward Bower. Rex Rufelh Dal' las, Ltm Bfyan Fishback, Effla Uladys Gib son. English ministerial course Marguerite Gebhart Dallas. Laura L. Drill, Edna Cor nelius Harriman. Normal Bible course Etta Althea Prall. School of oratory afartha Watson Baird. William Robb Baird, Guy L. Drill. School of music Mary Ethel Ashurst, Ethel Fay Dana. Dickson Pain Harriman, Ruth Ellen Williams. Hattie Poley Mit chell, Charles Harold Richards, Lucille Elizabeth Shearor. Instructor Coming to Portland. BAKER, Or., May 22. (Special.) Announcement was made yesterday by Vere Windnagle, well-known track star, who has been instructor of mathematics and athletic coach at Baker high school during the past semester, that he had accepted a po sition for next year at Washington high school in Portland. His duties will be similar to those which he had here. Accompanied by his wife, he plans to leave for Prosser, Wash., where they will make a short visit before proceeding to Portland. S. & H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co. Main 353, S60-21. Adv. 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