Wasted Wealth in the Balkans. Thousands of dollars worth of "white coal" goes to waste in the Balkans every day through failure to make use of the existing water power. This grist mill has been in operation 350 years but it is utilizing only one fiftieth of the power that could be generated on this spot. Impressed by the tremendous coal shortage Europe is enduring, American Red Cross sanitation experts in Montenegro while inspection in the mountain streams to detect typhoid sources, have been amazed at the possibilities for hydroelectric installations
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: General, Montenegro.
On caption card: (1/1901)
Used in: T.T & C. and Jr. Red Cross Nws. March 1, 1920.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 12
Tags
Date
01/01/1920
Location
montenegro
Source
Library of Congress
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