Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — British Water-Power. [ARTICLE]

British Water-Power.

The growing industry of extracting aluminum has stimulated the search for water-power In the British Isles, because the extraction of aluminum is so expensive that only low-cost power can be economically employed. In this respect Scotland, with its mountains, is coming to the front The water-power plant at the falls of Foyers, In Scotland, has hitherto been the largest In Great Britain; but now a still larger plant, at Klnloohleven, utilising the rainfall over a tract of 66 square miles, is about to be put into operation for the production of aluminum. Its nine hydraulic turbines, each of 1,300 brake horse-pow-er, are the largest waterwheels tn the Briggh Wdfc „