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J THE rlNii.rlUKo A wuiluuiv iS9S 1 OVER ON THE YADKIN High Power Development Out Across the Montgomery 1865 1916 Chicken Belt TRADE MARk'REOU.S.PAT OFP C. C. 5HAYNE & CO. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF STRICT LY RELIABLE FURS Annual Discount Sale We are offering our entire . stock of manufactured Furs at discounts from lO to 25 per cent. 126 West 42nd Street New York dity Jupiter Island Golf Course Good Nine Hole Golf Course, of about 3,000 nuur. ouuaij, juimiuii yards oa the ocean front. Joe Mitchell, of the Cleveland Country Club, professional in charge Comfortable quarters at Pine Ridge Inn, Hobe Sound. Apply for Booklet AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE Cheap ltat Inatant Service Good Can SUGG'S LIVERY Telephone SOUTHERN PINES The Falname Golf Ball Marker A. MONTESANTI Tailor and Dress Maker Riding Habits and Sporting Apparel French Dry Cleaning Pennstlvanla Ave.. Southern Pines, N. C. Photography MERROW Sloping The Pinehurst Studio Now Installed at The Pinehurst Country Club Take your FULNAME DIE with you or order a new one there Golf's Greatest Convenience The Fulname Company CINCINNATI, OHIO Manicure, Shampooing, Chiropody ana marcel wave UURA AGNES WALKER, Room 2, THE CAROLINA By Bion Butler MS A FEW miles to the west of Pinehurst is one of the most gigantic industrial developments going on in the world.' It is the construction of a vast water power, and the application of the power is to a big alum inum reduction works, which will be pos sibly the first in size of plants of its char acter. The dam is building on the Yad kin Elver, at an interesting place known as 1 1 The Narrows, ' ' a spot where Nature has devoted much energy toward making a highly desirable condition for water power development. The dam will have a fall of a hundred feet or more, and develop a hundred thousand horse power. The cost of the plant will be many mil lion dollars. It is one of those things that start out with an idea of expending a given sum of money and wind up with the spending habit fully contracted, but the limit of spending lost sight of for ever. What will be spent at the new settlement can be determined better ten years from now, but it will be a wagon load of money. THE MIGHTY RIVER The Yadkin is a fine big river, rising away up in the counties of Caldwell and Watauga in the Blue Eidge. At Patter son it is over twelve hundred feet above tide water, and from that lofty elevation it falls to the sea in a distance of 410 miles. Draining a vast area, catching a rainfall of some fifty inches annually, and carrying the water down more than twelve hundred feet from the mountain tops to the sea it affords a vast power. By the time the river has reaches ' ' The Narrows' over on the west side of Montgomery County it has swelled to a considerable tide. Nrmally the stream is about a quarter of a mile wide, flow ing in docile fashion between well-defined banks, a majestic, well-behaved stream. At the Narrows it enters a defile that closes in between the rocky walls not more than sixty feet at some places. In a distance of a mile the river tumbles through this narrow passage about forty feet of a fall, and before the disturbed portion of the river is passed the total fall in four or five miles is almost a hundred feet. THE DAM ON THE REBOUND Not far above that turbulent stretch of the river Whitney and Stephenson, of Pittsburgh, a few years ago projected a big improvement and they went so far as to build a big dam that was to provide fifty thousand horse power. They built a town called Whitney, spent several million dollars, allowed themselves to be caught by one of those stock flurries that they helped to stir up from time to time, for they were stock brokers, and one morning their financial hide was tacked to the fence. They had some friends in Pittsburgh and New York who had been wanting that hide, as Whitney and Stephenson had been in the fur catching business themselves some in the past. When the blow fell it hit the dam propo sition a hard jolt in what Mrs. Bob Fitz simmons called the slats, and the dam heard itself alluded to many a time be fore it passed through court, where it was not big enough to square off ac counts. A fifty thousand horse power dam cannot do everything. The dam at "Whitney was a magnifi cent creation of masonry and engineer ing. It rose sixty feet high above the water level, the massive masonry having a thickness of about fifty feet up and down stream,' and the work was laid down there on the rocky base of the river as' substantially as though the job had- been doiie in that thorough and endur ing style that characterized things on the morning of creation. Aluminum is a comparatively new metal. It is a highly valuable one. It lias net yet found its limits. It has not yet been produced in sufficient quantities to meet the wants for it. The raw ma terial from which aluminum is procured is clay, one of the most abundant things imaginable. The supply depends on the ability of men to reduce the clay to a metallic state, and that is evidently de pendent on the amount of electrical ener gy available, for the economical reduc tion is an electrical process. A bunch of men with money concluded to take a look at the Whitney scheme, and when they looked they annexed the place. They were men of bigger notions. They planned a bigger dam. When the plan was fitted to the location it was found that a new dam, twice as big and twice as powerful, had grown out of the Whit ney failure. There on the Yadkin, just below the Whitney dam is a bigger dam, entirely drowning out the several mil lions that were put into the Whitney dam, but promising just about twice as big a return of power as the submerged dam at Whitney was expected to give. THE PROPHETIC SOUL The new dam will be one of the big dams of the world. The resulting in dustrial plant will be one of the big things. A town is building to provide the necessary community for the big fac tory, which will be a thing by itself in its magnitude and importance. Over here electricity will be exploited in a way" that will make the Yadkin valley the center of an advanced electrical civiliza tion. Everything is fashioned with the latest electrical discovery and invention under control. The whole outfit will be a model of applied electricity. It will be a place to study the theory and prac-
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