There are many other rivers or streams fed by the glaciers and snows of
Mount Tacoma which may and will be utilized for generating electrical
power as rapidly as required. The Tacoma Industrial Company has recently
bought a continuous strip four miles in length, including the White
River, and is making preparations to install a 15,000-horse power plant
twelve miles from TACOMA. The Nisqually River, which flows into the Sound
south of TACOMA, has enormous undeveloped power resources. Within thirty
miles of TACOMA, at Le Grand, a station on the Tacoma Eastern, on the
brink of the Nisqually Canyon, is an available and accessible water power
capable of generating 30,000-horse power. TACOMA commands the use of from
150,000 to 200,000-horse power as soon as required.
_NO OTHER SEAPORT IN THE WORLD HAS SUCH ABUNDANT RESOURCES OF CHEAP POWER
FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES._
_POWER IS BEING DELIVERED TO THE CITY OF TACOMA FOR PUMPING AND LIGHTING
PURPOSES AT THE LOWEST CONTRACT PRICES AT WHICH POWER IS OBTAINED AT ANY
CITY IN THE WORLD._
_MANUFACTURERS AT TACOMA ARE OBTAINING ELECTRIC POWER AT A LOWER PRICE
THAN THAT AT WHICH POWER IS OBTAINABLE AT ANY OTHER TIDEWATER PORT IN THE
UNITED STATES._
_TACOMA IS THE ELECTRIC CITY OF THE PACIFIC COAST._
[Illustration: Tacoma Smelter.]