EFFECT Of ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 180, 25 July 1901, Page 4

EFFECT Of ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS.

The development of the metallurgical industries of Spain has given a grej.fc ' impulse to electric tramways, of which there are over 150 miles in the country. The general use of electricity is Causing , the introduction ot many valuable indue- . ' i iea into practically deserted'district-'. Until a few years ago the streets and houses of most of the small towns aud villages, which are now well lighted with electricity, were dependent of a few oil lamps and the lanterns on the night I watchman. Once an “electric plant has / been put in a village it becomes to employ skilled labor. The residence of a few people of superior education in a village soon pnts new life and energy into all its undertakings, and other improvements follow. The introduction of factories and opportunities of exercising skilled labor in country districts tend to encourage the rural population to take more interest in education so as to fit themselves for better wages. While, therefore, Spain is supplying a large part of the raw materials for our iron, steel, and copper industries, we must look forward to the time—perhaps not Very far I distant—when she will work her own materials, and become one of our com, I petitors in the markets of the world.— { “ Engineering.”