Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — Great Water and Timber Waste. [ARTICLE]

Great Water and Timber Waste.

Of the 6.7(X).000-horse power of water power in the United States, all but 6,300,000-horsepower is running to waste. 1116 water is at present locked up against utilization by the laws governing the forest reserve, the generab public domain and the navigable streams, says Leslie’s. Congressmen have hot hesitated to advocate higher rates on mail matter of the secondclass, bfit have not found time to open up these water powers so that print paper can be made cheaper for the

publishers. It has been estimated by Secretary of Agriculture Houston that there Is enough timber going to waste ih the forest reserve and on cutover lands to supply wood pulp indefinitely if the question of its manufacture by water power could be solved.