Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-22

geles river and what is known IS the
Crystal Springs, located some six miles
from town. The company is now fur |
nishing about 5000, 900 gallons per day, |
though, if called upon, they could furnish |
13 900, 600 gallons with their present |
conduit, which WAS completed about a
year since. The source Of supply is |
inexhaustible. The Los An
geles river water is, by analysis, con-
ceded to be superior to that in use by any
Eastern cities other than the lake towns. |
The company is now contemplating an
in the way of diverting the
water from the river; the process being
very simple, consisting of infiltration, or,
in other words, taking water not from
the surface, but driving under the river
and catching the water by percolation.
Considering the immense cost OF erect.
ing the plant and the high wages labor re-
ceives in California, the rates charged by
the company are very reasonable com.
pared with those paid by other cities.
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
To Los Angeles belongs the proud dis
tincliou of having been the first city in
the United States to entirely abandon
gas for street-lighting and replace it by
electricity. Los Angeles, with its thirty
six square miles of area, lighted wholly
by electricity, is to-day the best lighted
city on the Pacific coast. The use OF
gas was ordered to be discontinued on
December 81, 1882, and on the night of
that day the electric light was ushered
in. The masts throw light mile dis
tant, thus Illuminating an area of ten
square miles, as against less than one
square mile lighted by gas. The system
operated under is known as the Brush
system, and is operated under
THE Los ANGELES ELECTRIC COMPANY.
The plant Of this company is one OF
the largest in the United States. 1t COM
prisee four Corliss engines and four tnbu-
lar boilers, 60.horse power each, and two
Hazelton boilers, 36-horse power each !;
there is boiler and engine force equal to
750-horse power. There are twelve dyna-
mos in use each dynamo is estimated to
produce light for sixty-five lights of 1000
candle power each. This is 130, 600 can
die power to each dynamo, or 100000
candle power as the product of the works.
The city is six miles square, and the area
is thirty.six square miles. The street
lamps are suspended on masts arranged
in four circuits. Three number sixty
one. Twenty-four are one hundred and
fifty feet high, having each three lamps
of 5000 candle power each, or 5000 can
die power on each mast. Twenty. eight
sixty feet masts have one lamp and nine
masts OF lesser heights have one lamp.
For the electric light service the city
pays 81 900 year for each mast bearing
three lamps of 5000 candle power each.
The total cost for lighting the city is
about $4,000 or $62, 400 a year. New
masts and new lamps are being fitted up
with the growth of the city.
The directors OF the company are |.
w. Hellman, o. w. Childs, Abe Haas,
G. H. Rowland. O. w. Childs is Presi-
dent, w. r. Blackman, Secretary; James
Warren, Superintendent. The works
and station is at the corner of Banning
and Alameda streets.
LOW GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY.
This company is now manufacturing
and furnishing through its various mains
the finest quality of Illuminating gas ever
made in this city or elsewhere on the
Pacific coast. For fuel it has no superior,
for it is an acknowledged fact that when
used in connection with the Lowe heat
ing appliances it contains so per cent.
more heat units than any gas heretofore
supplied IN tnlS city.
The company furnish this gas so cheap
that it is being used to great advantage
and saving of cost over any other fuel in
this market. 1t is cheaper than coal at
Sc ton (Which sells in this market at
from $l2 to SIS per tom. 1t is now gen.
orally conceded throughout the coun-
try that gaseous fuel will rapidly
take the place of all other meth
DDS of heating. Already several
cities are being supplied with fuel
gas, and extensive plants are being
erected in others.
The past winters experience in this
city has thoroughly demonstrated the
value OF the Lowe gas for fuel and power,
as we'll as light, and hundreds of testi-
monials from its users testify to its su-
perior worth. This company is now fur
nishing this gas to the citizens of Los
Angeles at such rates as cause it to come
into general use for all purposes where
heat is required.
The manufacturing works of the COM
pany are situated at the corner of Sew
enth and Alameda streets, and its office
and show rooms at 204 South Main street.
The grounds owned by the company are
ample, not only for present purposes, but
for indefinite engagements, which may
be required by the exigencies of the
future.
The company's stock and bonds
are becoming favorite investment and
are now being sold for the purpose OF ex-
tensions of its distributing system over
the balance of the city, and those here
tofore not favored with this gas will soon
have an opportunity of enjoying its ben
efits.
Professor Lowe is the holder of a gold
and silver medal from the Franklin In
stitute of Philadelphia, Pa, and also a
grand medal Of honor for his inventions,
which were held by that institution to
be the most useful to mankind.
STREET RAILWAYS.
When a city gives promise of becoming
large, there is always a rush for fran
chises and other privileges. Capital is
10th to invest in uncertain enterprises
therefore, when it comes forward and |
asks to be allowed to invest, it may be |
taken as sure indication of future great |
ness and prosperity. In this respect the |
capitalists have fully shown their conf |
dence in Los Angeles, not alone in the |
Investments being made by Eastern cap
ltalists, but also with the home capital |
lists, in making improvements and extern |
sions, thereby perfecting the best and |
most complete network of street rail- |
way that can be found on the coast. |