Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-16
The Electric Light.

4 visit to the electric light works of
 the Brusb-Swan company last evening found the workmen busy unpacking
 the lamps and fixtures. The dynamo
 machine IS yet at the depot, but will be
 placed m position this week. The en-
 zine and boilers are expected daily, and
 the light is promised by July 1st. The
 poles were placed in position yesterday
 afternoon on Congress street. The com
 pany will use the Brush src-light for
 street purposes and the Swan incsndes-
 descent lamp for stores and residences.
 This Is emihently proper, considering
 that the Brush arc throws an exceed ingly bright light, too strong to be con- fined indoors, and ct the same time not SO steady as the mellow light of the Swan. 1 bis variableness of the Brush arc, which is caused by its sympathy with toe dynamo and it's exposure 10 the
 wind, does not affect 1t at all for out
 door uses but rather increases its eth- cheney. In fOggy, cloudy weather the rays of light from the Brush arc seem to gather strength as they travel, and at no other time does the arc shine so brightly. Another peculiarity about the arc light IS its adsptRbiLIty to enhghten corners where lt does not shine directly. TLis may sound like the fable of the hunter who bent his rifle barrel around a tree to kill grizzly, yet 1t IS true as the writer knows by having been an eyewitness. To illustrate: The com pany propose to erect a mast forty-four feet high on top of the court house dome. From the top of this mast wIll be hung four Brush arc lights of a sum total of l2,0U0 candle power. This wIll light up ah area of half mile radius so that one can read the newspaper there by within that limit The light IS com posed of pure white rays. It would be supposed that on the sldeof large bLlld- ings opposite to the light there would be Iutensa darkness, but the contrary is the truth. 1 be hght AS it were shines around the object, and although there + a slight sha.iOw, Onetan see sufficient ly to pick up brass button from the ground. The seven masts of Los An geles, carrying the Brush arc of 63,OOO candle power. can be separately dis tiDguished at distance of thirty-fve miles. And when Tucson shall be robed in her electric glory she will be visible nightly at a far greater distance, and when viewed by some Hast of the Apaehe,' from the summit of the Cata- linss or Santa Ritas will appear like a mighty glow worm ID the green meadow of the Santa Cruz valley. Tucson lighted proiusely by electricity will sparkle in the crown of Arizona like q gem on a royal brow.
 Three important cities of the Mexican republic, Guadalsiara, Mon terey and Mexico, have been lighted by electricity for nearly two years. San Jose, Los Angeles and Salt Lake were the first cities on the Pacific slope to adopt it. Portland, Oregon, has ordered twenty-six masts to carry about lJ0lOO0 candle power to light its streets. San Francisco has used the light several years in moderate quanti- ties. but its quarrels with the gas com panies has caused 6 more general sdOp- ton.
 The Brush-arc company furnish an electric motor of any horse power de- sirable that will run machinery perfect ly. Cars are run in England and Ger mnny by electricity. We can talk, read, write, travel and be restored to health by this, as it were, almost mysterious power. This is the age of electricity.