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 If Coal Went Over Niagara

���Other Waterfalls

NiaKar;i isn't tlit,- only DlfcmJcr in waste power. Many a woocllaml stream like this over the country is at present wasting itself away, liven its be;jul\' passes unseen

��A Mighty Power While we've been huddled around feebly-responsive radiators this winter, while we have been enduring coal holidays and other makeshift remedies, we've been allowinK the equivalent of at least ten tons of coal a second to go over one waterfall, Niagara. How it might look if it actually were coal, is shown above. Oh. Cedrick, if that only went in a man's bins I Farewell coal famme!

��larger share of the plant owners were equipped with the newer apparatus that can burn poorer grades of coal efficiently one large source of coal troubles would disappear at once. Many of the manufac- turers could start out with a train of motor trucks .some morning, head for a

��mine in their own county, and get all the coal they wanted, and often not such bad coal at that. The railroads and all their troubles would count for nothing at all. A man would be his own supply and de- mand. When gas and coke-making plants become more general, these things

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