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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000 Tiburon 100 Tormey 150 JTowle 200 Tracy 1,200 Vacavihe 2,500 ••Vallejo 12,000 Vallejo Junction... 10 ■Walnut Creek 350 Wheatland 1,40B Winters 1,200 ••Woodland 3.600 Tolo 350 ••Tuba City 1,90H all others, electricity only. t Journal of EiEcrRicnr POWER AND GAS Devoted to the Converaion, Transmission and Distribution of Energy i Volume XXIV SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 9, 1910. Number 15 ( Copyright 1910, by Technical Fublishinc Company ) GREAT WESTERN POWER COMPANYS SYSTEM BY RUDOLPH W. VAN NORDEN^ The development of the power system of the of final success, not dreamed of by the original pro-Great Western Power Company has been the result moters, from a utilitarian viewpoint.of a most daring venture, itself audacious in the The late Major Frank McLaughlin, who hadoriginality of its method of extracting from an almost mined and prospected on the Feather River and ad-invincible hiding place, a supposed hoard of gold. The joining country, realized the value of the river gravel
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Power House, showing Transmlsslon-Iine Towers, Pipe-lines and Surge-pipe, and Cable Crossing Klver. Story of the Big Bend tunnel, with its hopes and itsfailures, constitutes one of the chapters in the his-tory of mining in California. The project was toodaring, and failed. But the ultimate use of the tun-nel and the development of the plant of the GreatWestern Power Company, add a new chapter, a sequel 1 Member A. I. E. E.. A. S. C. E. as holding free gold washed down from the upperreaches of the river. He conceived a plan of expos-ing the bed of the river, around the Big Bend, bycarrying the flow, through a tunnel across the bend.Accordingly, he formed a company for this purpose.It was planned to build a tunnel of sufficient sizeto carry the stream, throughout the period of low 316 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY, POWER AND GAS Vol. XXIV—No. 15 water flow, which ordinarily last,s from four to fivemonths each year. This would expose about fifteenmiles of the stream bed, and it was thought, l

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