Identifier: journalofele241251910paci (find matches)
Title: Journal of electricity, power, and gas
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pacific Coast Electric Transmission Association
Subjects: Electrical engineering Electricity Gas manufacture and works
Publisher: San Francisco : Technical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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Lake Chelan is about Sl2cubic feet a second, the fall 360 feet and the energyal)OUt 33,000 horsepower. The development here willhe simple and quite inexpensive. Tf the lake storagewere used to equalize the flow, the above could begreatly increased. The minimum flow of the Wenatchee River isabout 850 cubuc feet a second, only about 25 per centof which is used for irrigation purposes, and that only there is great need tor such power for use in domesticindustries and to be distributed over the densely pop-ulated irrigated districts for light and power. There still remain opportunities to develop poweralong the lower Colville River, some of which are nowin use. Large power installations have also been madealong important streams in other parts of the State,particularly west of the Cascades. West of Puget Sound, where the Olympic Moun-tains, with snow-capped peaks and heavy precipitation(100 inches a year), feed many small streams and riv-ers mostly within the National forests. Some of the
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Lake Chelan. in the lower valley. For 14 miles through the Tum-water canyon and before emerging into the agricul-tural valleys this stream is a raging torrent. The Great Northern Railroad Company has al-most completed a power plant at Chiwaukum, in theTumwater canyon, where it will develop 10,000 horse-power with which to operate trains through the Cas-cade tunnel. There are yet great undeveloped powerpossibilities along the river, probably more than canhe utilized for many years to come. Since much of the water now used and much ofthe stored water later to be used in the Yakima Valleywill be distributed to lands pretty well down the val-ley, it will be possible to develop a considerable amountof power from the water before it reaches the agri-cultural lands upon which it is to be used finally, and streams fall several thousand feet in their rush tothe ocean, affording many opportunities for power de-velopment. The streams winding their courses westward fromthe Cascade range through a

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