Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1912 — GREAT FALLS IN TASMANIA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT FALLS IN TASMANIA

Water Power That Will Develop Eleo trloity for Use of Manufacturers on Island. . X » A Mg hydro-electric engineering scheme now being constructed In the middle of Tasmania will revolutionize the Industrial life of that Island. The area of Tasmania is a little over 26,000 square miles, and Its present population Is .191,000. Situated in the middle of the island at an altitude of 3,400 feet is the Great Lake, a storage reservoir provided by nature herself. The area of this sheet of water is forty-one of Tasmania's square miles. The outlet of this lake Is the River

Shannon. At this outlet a'new company, which has recently been formed, is constructing a weir to regulate the flow. The water will then be diverted from the Shannon into a lagoon, from which steel pipes will be laid so as to create an effective fall of water for over 1,000 feet vertical. Nature’s disposition In this region allows of the mechanical connivance of engineers in this manner both slmply and cheaply. It is calculated that In the power house to be erected at the foot of this fall electricity of the value of 85,000 horse power can be generated all the year round, sufficient to work the developing industries of the whole Island. Hobart (the capital) in the south and Lauuceton In the north will be supplied from ft, and there will be aniple power to work the important mineral fields of the west coast as well — the copper mines of Mount Lyell, the tin mines of Bischoff, and the silver mines of Zeehan.

Tasmanian Niagara.