The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 22, 1922, Page 2

PAGE TWO OPTIMISTIC: IN THEIR REPORTS Although Rains Interfere With Seeding, No Particular Damage Is Noticed SCATTERED EXCEPTIONS Agents Expréss the Opinion! There Will Be No Grasshopper Menace This Year Fargo, N. D., May 22.—Nearly all of the county agents of North Dakota were optimistic concerning crops. in their report for the second week of May in their report turned into John Haw, county agent leader, The rains had interfered much With the seeding but had done no particular damage, according to most reports. There were a few scattered exceptions to this. Gophers are reported only, in two counties while another agent express- ed the opinion that there will be no grasshopper menace this year. Hig. winds prevailed in nearly all of, the counties but is mentioned in only one}, as having done harm. The. gloomiest reports. comes from Golden Valley. where according to the report “fourteen one hundredths of rain and severe winds did gome dag- age to light soils. Very poor farming this spring. Shortage of money and feed the cause; seed loans. very .slow coming in. Some farmers moyed off their places to rent land where seed in being furnished.” ;Sweet clover died.|, ag a result of Jast year’s drouth. Al- falfa good. ‘Worms are bad again and lots of damage -will be done: a sum_|' Mary of the reports. follows: Renville—Most of wheat seeding done; very little other ‘seeding; pas- tures looking good; gopher. extermina.. tion going on. ath Foster—Rain; most of wheat: in; Pasture conditions good. E Morton—Crops all in except .some. Potatoes; outlook fine; sweet clover doing well. Gophers nymerous. Ramsey—Rain; almost all field work stopped; still some oats and barley. to be seeded through large percentage done; crops look very: good; alfaita and sweet clover look: very good. .; ‘Cass — Heavy rains packing : tha ground; most wheat in, other crops being sown; some injury from pecking. and crusting due to heavy rain. Pas-| tures and meadows excellent. a Stutgman—Rain; wheat practically all-in and other seeding. under way; Pastures good)?» « pa kas Divide—Rain; nearly. all wheat in; pastures and meadows good.\ ‘Cavalier—Rain. , iia Eddy; wheat all in; other seeding well begun; some wheat turned yellow by rain; good meadow prospects. McKenzie—Rain; wheat in; oats fifty per cent in; potatoes will be fifty per. cent in acreage;; winter rye. best on record. Meadows and pastures good, tee Grant—-Showers; cold;. wheat .all seeded:and some corn planted; wheat!’ uneven, but rye good. F i Mountrail — extremely. wet; cold;. most wheat in; weather almost ideal for small grains. 'Pasturea exception- ally good condition. McLean-—"Rained like it never did be- fore;” small, graing fine; too wet an cold for corn. Pagture and meadows coming fine.: ret ‘f Burke—Almost constant rain; uo damage by rain but cut off wheat seed- ing when about 90 per cent was plant- ed. (Pastures and meadows very good. Slope—Rain; but .very..little small grain to be sown; rye fine; little too cold for wheat. Pastures and meadows, coming fine. ‘ ‘Wells—Rain every day of the week, all: wheat in, corn and potatoes plant- ing delayed by rain; grain conditions good; good growth in pastures. Pierce—Rain every day this week; roads in bad. condition; wheat, oats and barley practically all sown; pota- to planting started but.not.corn. ‘Pas- tures fine and meadows never better. Williams—Heavy rains; about. 95 per cent wheat in, other seeding, start- ed. Pastures retarded by cool weath- er, oe Dickey—Heavy rains; smal] grain seeding mostly finished; rye doing well; pastures and meadows.good., McHenry—Unusually wet; weather cut off eome wheat acreage; all graina seeded up in fine shape. Pastures and | 7 meadows good. Apparently ng grass- hopper. menace this spring. Towner — Rains every. day; field work interfered with, but‘corn and po- tato planting begun. Pastures and meadows never. better. Richland — Considerable hail, rain hindered seeding; considerable barley and oats still to be seeded in some sections; corn and potato seeding just begun. (Barnes—Heavy rains; crops looking very good; still a little barley and oats to he seeded. Pastures backward. :. * Walsh—Much rain through center of county; all grain looking @ne except that under water; many. potatoes planted; ground looking weedy owing to good growing weather. Pastures Sargent—Five and one-half inches of rain; wheat and oats about at in wish barney, corn and potatoes being plant: ed. Pastures very. good. About 10,: 000 acres of grain drowned out by heavy rain. 4 ‘Nelson—More rain during the week than has been experienced at this time of ‘the year,.too much moisture for field work and some damage in the lower places. Pastures and meadows fine. - : Grand Forks—Some potato and corn planting ‘begun; pastures and meadows exceptionally good. See eeeeeensneenanaenl = Crewsky Shoe Repair Shop 109.8rd St., Bismarck, N. D.. Across from Van.Horn Hotel. We give mail orders prompt : attention, Lower inset—Site (Nature and man joined forces years ago to make the province of Ontario, ‘Canada, the world’s most highly elec- trified commonwealth. The effort was successful,, But the residents of On- tarlo were not content. They took thought’ and then took action. Their achievement ‘has just become a fact.. In consists merely in mak- ing ‘Niagara Falls, the~ mightiest of Nature's vast possessions, twice as mighty as it was before. Nature gave to the province of On- tario a half interest in this great in- dustrial potentiality. Far-s¢eing, en- ergetic Canadians seized upon it for development. ‘The result has been the literal elec- trification of the province. | It is a province peopled, by the .way, with residents of the same stock ‘and: habit of life as Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana, Western; New York, or any other rur- ‘al community in ‘the United States which has not been inundated by the immigrant swarms of recent years, ‘But whilé agricultural’ sections of the United States still live in the dim flickerngs of the kerosene lamp age, ‘Ontario. from end to end, in farm and city alike, is agleam with electricity. Better than one family of every lthree im Ontario uses electricity. One every 10 persons in the province is a. paying consumer of electricity fur- nished by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Eleven complete power ‘systems are operated by the public alone. Electrically speaking, the On- tario kilowat per capita is the high- est in the world. (People have long since given up the attempt to marvel at developments of science and invention. Once upon a time, long ago, there was interval enough between the inventions of the ‘printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone and the sew- ing machine, for the human race to ‘pause, to wonder, to gasp, to applaud, 4nd even to ‘build monuments to the Persons credited with the great ac- complishments, But during these re cent decades, inventions and scien- tific achievements, automatons which do in an hour or so man’s lifelong work, have appeared too frequently for man to do more than inquire the price. The ramifications of electric possibilities have become too many for consideration. ‘In Ontario, on a vast scale, elec- tricity operates railroads; it also churns, bakes and does the family washing for Mrs. Hiram Smith, of sonbourg. Huge factories, employ- ing thousands of men, owe their ex- idtence to the utilization of the water power; besides, Farmer Henry Jones, at, Brownsville, saves time to culti- vates his corn because electricity fills his silos and milks his cows. But it is not in the variety of ways in which the power may be made use- ful that the average observer obtains his idea of electricity. Rather, it is the evidence which forces itself upon the senses, Therefore, it is Ontario ag a well-lighted commonwealth that appeals to public imagination. Ride through the province at night on the train or over automobile roads, and your thoughts must dwell upon lighting. | Everywhere the conviction ig impelling that the province is years ahead of the rest of the world in de- velopment of its power possibilities. Little hamlets, which in another ter- ritory would be dark, are as well lighted as some of the great American cities, “Street lights every 100 or 200 feet are not unusual. Ontario is almost dewoid of coal supply. That fact was largely instru- mental in giving impetus to the move- ment for development of the water power, abundantly available in the great waterfall of Niagara. It is true that early development on the Amert- can ‘side of the Falls was great. But the coal supply from the Pennsylvania fields was easy of access, and the need for water power was, therefore, not so pressing, The American de- velopment, too, met the usual hand- icap of excessive financial exploita- tion. A New York state legislative committee as late as 1918 reported that there was a generating company, a transmitting company and a dis- tributing company, all with inter!ock- {28 @ifectorates, so that the ultimate THE BISMARCK: TRIBUNE WHY NOT UTILIZE THE MISSOURI RIVER IN THIS MANNER? Aerial view of a section of the Queenstown-Chippawa power canal. Upper inset—A close-up view of a section of the of the artificial waterfall before the water was turned on, with the power house at the foot of the consumer was compelled to pay divi- dends into three pockets. Naturally, the price of electricity to him could not be extraordinarily cheap. . ‘Power development in Ontario was partially under private ownership and partially under public ownership, but the ‘World War threw it pactically all under government control. It has been under government control that the Queenston-Chippewa development has been carried out. Canada is heavily endowed with wa- ;ter power, and Ontario is the richest province of all. It has been estimated that the water powers of the world available for uso approximate pune hundred’ million horse power, of which only seventeen millions have been de veloped, Canada’s share of the world’s grand total is about twenty million horgé’ power, one-fifth of the whole. Quebec '- and Ontario divide about twelve millions between them, Development| mt watqr power on both American and Canadian sides of Niagara began during the last century. ‘As early as 1853 an American corpor- ation was formed with the design of ‘building a canal and cutting shafts to |: Permit, the greatest possible use of power on water wheels. In 1883 the water power was first converted into electrical energy. Twelve years later advances in electrical sciénce and im- proved turbines permitted for the first time the use of the full head of 210 feet from the top of the cliff. at Ni- agara to. the river below the Falls. Electricity had been used as motive power for street railways in Tononto in 1883,| Five years later the first transmission of electric energy by wa- ter power in Canada was at George- town, Ontario, when 100 horse power was utilized in a paper! mill. Forty-three years of tremendously accelerating pnpgress were punctuat- ed by marvelour stride; electrical utilization, until ‘thas Sola opening of - the : Queenstown: development canal on De 1921,’a date which historians may be able to uge in marking the passing of water-péwer development ‘from the stage 1 aphazard individual e/fort to whol@éale peak produetion. Hlectweity saw the notable achleve- ment, of the installation in 1900 of a 200 horse “0! ano at ‘Niagara. and only’a few later the“ea@aal eecorg tne oF -avaaeeoe Miran jorsé: Dower. generators of 52,000 horse pe aaa 1891 the Soa as tawa was elated over the operation of electric cars in wintertime. but a few years later the transmission nf power from the Falls to Windsor, 232 miles, occasioned only a passing notice, It was cnly 15 years ago that the [Ontario legislature took notice of power development and provided for the co-ordination of effort by passing the Power Commission Act. Under this measure, purchases, leases and developments have brought practically all Niagara power under the Hydro- Electrict Commission, which sells the power to the municipalities ata cost equivalent to the cost at the source of supply plus transmission charges and proportionate shares of sinking. fund and maintenance charges. In 12 years the: commission’s ae- tivities have grown from one system of- 4,000 horse power supplying 13 municipalities to 11 systems embrac- ine 289 municipalities and distribating 350,000 horse power over a territory a8 large'as England. Five hundred sen- arate farms in various parts of the province and 5,000 other rural con- sumers at preset receive power from the commission, but a comprehensive scheme of rural supply has been worked out and further extensions are expected. - ; Almost from the outset, the number of power users kept pace with the thower develonment. Surveys of fa- cilities brought the conviction ‘that Niagara power would soon be ex- hausted. Ten years ago Ontario ex- terts expressed the belief that all tha Niagara vower, available under existing conditions for use in the rrovinee, would be gone by the close of 1921. acing this condition, they set at once to the task of providing a new eoures inf power. Instead of look- itself. They, saw ‘that fully half the power available was going to waste. ‘The fall of water from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. is'327 feet. But Niagara Falls proper is slightly less than half that height. As power‘is proportional to the waterfall height, development had been confined: almost exclusively to half of the total’ fall between the twq lakes, ae ‘ The Ontario Hydro-Electric’ Power Commission bent its efforts: (19 utiliz- ing this lost fall of water: On December, 98, 1921, these, efforts culminated in ‘the formal opéting of the: newly ‘@@iipletéd Queasiown- Chippewa power..canal. yee This canal p2rmits the taking in of water’ from: Nigiira Biver® < hippe- wa above the ‘Palls,the’ cofveyance of this ‘water twelve, and three-quar- ter miles aroynd.sthéy, Falls, and its discharge thnough’pipes'down 305 feot of cliff at Queensto in. the lower Niagata River. 4% 1 The” largest Yaower, nian the world has been biilt ‘at the foot of this cliff to transform this ;gigantic artificial waterfall’ into poweér., The initial development. of power due to the canal will be 000 horse power, a complete canal installation will permit a capacity of 550,000, and ultimate capacity of 6&0,000. With | available. other power resources at the natural falls, approximately 1,000,000 biorse power will be available ultimately. i Treaty regulations between the ‘United States and Canada restrict the ; amount of water either country may divert from the Great Lakes. The Queensiown-Chippewa development program was the Canadian engineers’ solution of the problem how ‘best to ‘utilize the maximum amount of power This amount is twice that possible from the natural falls alone. The 305-foot artificial waterfall util- izes all except 22 feet of the total fall betweon the two great lakes. Of this 12 feet, 10 feet occur in the up- per river above Chippewa, and 12 are necessary to convey the water through the canal. welve and three-quarter miles a total excavation of eleven million cu- bie: yards of earth and the hewing cut of four million cubic yards of sclidsrcck was necessary, At one noint.a cutting into earth was made to the depth of 80 feet. In rock at one point the denth of 85 feet was reached. The width of the nock-cut portion of the canal is 48 feat. (Engineering difficulties met and contuere] bv tha canal builders were many. At the intake end the engi- neers had to consider and meet the IN “GREENWICH VILLAGE FOLLIES” Bert Savoy and Jay Brennan are featured in the “Greenwich Village ing elsewhere, they looked to Niagara | Follies,” coming to the Auditorium, ‘Tuesday, May 23, : ‘|to be in his usual good health. ra power canal. falls. problem faced by the annual forma- tion and flow wf ice, a particularly aggravated one because the. large floes which form on the shores of the comparatively. shallow Lake Erie are all discharged through the river each spring. It was only after a long series of experiments that an intake was designed able to keep the plant free from ice. At the other end of the canal, wher? it enlarges into the forebay, a tri- angular concrete structure has been erected to act as a diffuser to smooth out any turbulence in the water as it enters the bay. Across the lower end of the bay ex- tends the permanent screen house structure, built of reinforced conercte land forming a dam across the fore- bay. .This structure contains the molded entrances to the penstocks or pipes which convey the water down the cliff to the turbines, and which form in effect a 305-foot artificial wa- terfall. At the foot of the cliff, the building which houses the generating -and trans- forming equipment will, when com- pleted, be 650 feet in length, while the roof will be 160 feet above the river level, Not only is the power house the largest in the world, but equipment of all sorts is in proportion, The tur- bines, with 60,000 horse power ¢apa- city, are the largest ever built. The generators, two of which already have been installed and three of which are in the pnocess of manufacture, are the largest and heaviest in the world. A thrust-bearing, designed to sustain a weight of 1,000,000 pounds, holds the entire weight of the revolving parts of each generator and turbine. The heaviest part of a generator weighs se of two 150-ton cranes which been installed in the power house. There ar2 many more details of the power development—mere de- tails in such a program. though gi- gantic in proportions—but enough have been given to,show the magni- tude of the program designed to pro- duce alirnst 1,000,000 horse power from Niagara Falls, and further ex- tend the vast program which designs the closest approach to electric satur- ation which the needs of the province may permit. PIONEER OF DICKINSON DIES) Dickinson, N. D,,: May -22—Another | pioneer ‘and honored citizen of Dick- | inson is dead. ‘Suddenly and with- | out warning death’ invaded the city { and called Duncan W. McKenzie, one of the first, if not the first res- ident nf Dickinson. Mr. McKenzie had spent several hours of the afternoon down town chatting with friends, and appeared e- turning to his home about 6 o'clock he complained of befng tired and feeling a slight~pain decided to re- tire. When members of the family went to his room shortly after they found that his spirit? had flown. Death was due to heart failure. | TOWN CRIERS. _ CLUB FORMED Killdeer, May 22.—Thirty Dickinson Town Criers, together with the club band, drove to Killdeer Saturday af- ternoon’ to ‘assist in organizing a club in the city in the evening. The caravan of Hight cars left Dick- nson at 5 o’clock and were scheduled to arrive in Killdeer in time to be gugsts at a banquet arranged in their honor. This was followed by a business session. Later in the eve- ning a dance was given in the Kill- deer audiiorium with music by Pat- tersos orchestra. Several of the Criers returned to Dickinson late Saturday evening while others MEMORIAL DAY TO BEOBSERVED i a) ft i As Legion Posts in France, Belgium, Poland, Turkey, Will Visit ,, Old Battlefields \LEGION POSTS SUBSCRIBE Central Committee in France Will Receive Funds For Decorating Individual Graves Indianapolis, Ind., May 22.—(Memor- ial Day, May 30, will be generally ob- served throughout the world this year, due in large part to the effarts of tho American Legion, according to an an- nouncement made at Legion head- quarters here today. The statement says: “Originally designated by the Union veterans of the Civil War as a_par- ticular Decoration Day for their fallen comrades, May 20 gradually has be- ‘coms a day set apart in memory of all Americans who died for their coun- try, Although it has long been the custom of many Southern states to observe a memorial holiday of their own on April 26, the tendency to a uniform observance has been appar- ent since the: world war. Tie Legion, composed of both the North and the South, officially adopted May 30 as its Memorial‘ Day and posts of the World War men on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line have, for the last three years, ‘simultancously honored the dead of the Civil, Spanisi-Ameri-, can and World wars. “As it did last year and, the year Kefor2, the Legion will decorate and hold. appropriate exercises over the grave of every American who sleeps on foreign soil, as well as thus honor- ing the graves of American and Al- lied veterans who are buried in tho cemeteries of this country. Legion posts in France, Belgium, Poland and Turkey wili visit old battlefields and adjacent cemeteries. “The United States graves registra- tion service has completed its huge task of returning to this country the bodies nf 4,023 of the A.B, F. who died overseas, but 30,000 Americans still remain permanently buried in ceme- teries of the Allied, nations. “To financ2 the Memorial Day dec- oration of graves overseas, each of the jLegion’s 11,000 posts was asked .to subscribe an amount equal to five cents for each of its members, A central committee of the Legion in France will receive the funds from this country and have charge ef dec- orating. the individual graves, “A similar plan of keeping a close and honored watch on graves of Americans buried overseas has been evolved. There will be in France four principal cemetcries wherein-nen of the A. E, F. will sleep forever. At present a special Fine Arts commis- s.on is working on the project which will entail for the collection of bodies and the beautification of cemeteries, jan expenditure of more: than $1,000,- 1000, These fields of horor will bs lecated at Belleau Wood, near Chateau- Thierry; Bony, near St. Quentin; Sursnes, near Paris, and Romagne, in the Argonne, near Montfaucon. More |than 500 Americans will remain buried jin England. A gift of land by the Brit- lish government allows for the future decoration and care of these graves. {Under plans already advanced a lit tle cemetery for those Americans, who died in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will be located at Brookwood, Surrey, England. . “This year still fewer of the proud, white-haired old heroes of ’61-65 will bear their colors and their flowers to 'the sacred ground where their com- rades are in eternal bivouac. ‘Last year the thinning ranks were filled with sturdy, tanned youngsters in their army drabs and navy blues who and its removal requires the | were honored to march at the side of tho veteran patriarchs on their holy mission. The present Memworiat Day will find the hosts of Grant and Lee all but dissipated and as the youths of the world war strive for the hon- ored files of the vanished procession, the day will take on a new signifi- cance.” RECRUIT FOR GUARD Dickinson, N. D., May 22.—With roster reorganization of Co. K of the North Dakota National Guard, un- dertaken by Capt. L. R. Baird two weeks ago is proceeding rapidly. A large number of the young men of the city attended the meeting held at the armory Monday evening and sev- eral who had not already signed up affixed their names to the roster. An- other meeting will be held tonight. HATGES COULD FEEL STRENGTH ‘SLIPPING AWAY Able To’ Eat Very Little Sub- stantial Food, Minneapolis Citizen Was Growing Weaker Every Day “When it comes to building a man up snd making him feel fine I don’t believe there is a medicine in the |world that is in the same class with 'Tanlac,” said John Hatges, 111 Sev- enth St., South, Minneapolis, Minn. “My troubles all started with my stomach six years or more ago and I finally got to the place where I could hardly eat anything at all. For break- fast I never did more than drink a glass of milk and at the other meals ‘ate very little substantial food. }eould just feel that my strength was e {being sapped day by day and I was remained all night in/about as discouraged and worried as that city in order that they might 'a man could be. spend Sunday in the K{lldeer moun- tains. Color-blindness is usually hered- itary, although a form of it may result from the over-use of tobacco. “Tanlac brought me the relief I needed and brought it in a remarkably short time. My stomach is as sound as a dollar now and I am as well and strong.as I ever was in my life.” « Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. more than 25 names already on the .