Washington, Apr. 4.
The question of the development of the federal Government's Muscle Shoals power project moved one step nearer to solution to-day when the Senate voted in favour of paying the states of Tennessee and Alabama five per cent. of the profits which might accrue through the Government's operation of one of the greatest potential power sources in the United States.
There are nitrate fixation plants built by the federal Government in the World War, but not carried to the point of production, on the Tennessee River rapids at Muscle Shoals. The first four units of 30,000 horsepower each began operating in 1925, and the ultimate capacity is reckoned at 612,000 horsepower.
In August, 1928, the installed power capacity at the dam—which 4,500 fect long and 142 feet high, and cost finally G.$51,000,000—was 260,000 horsepower, but the output was limited by the transformer] capacity to 110,000 kilowatts United Press.
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