Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1919 — JUDGE WAS ON RIGHT,TRACK [ARTICLE]

JUDGE WAS ON RIGHT, TRACK

New Englander a Pioneer in Scheme 1 of Conserving Water for* Use in Summer Months, i Present-day Interest In the development of. water power has recalled a modest, old-fashioned episode In the history of New England when, some time in the forties. Judge Nathan Crosby drove round Lake Wlnnepesaukfee in his carriage and made rough calculations of the effect upon local agricultural land if the lake level were raised a. few Out of that

‘‘hie grew a plan by which Lakes Winnepesaukee, oquatn, Newfound and others have since been used .as storage basins, conserving water for the summer months, and thus becoming modest pioneers of the more impressive plants for water utilization that will doubtless be a feature of the United States in the not distant future. Judge Crosby, however, may have had no more idea Of the transmlssion,of water power in the form pf electricity than his buggy had of becoming an automobile.—Christian Science ■■