Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-01
ENTERPRISE FOR SALEM.
Setting the Forces Of Nature to
Work.
BUILDING UP OUR CAPITAL. CITY.
What the Sidney Power Company
Proposes to Do.

articles of incorporation were recently
filed with the Secretary of State, is an
enterprise which means much to the
future welfare and development of the
entire Willamette valley. The incor-
porators are, j. NJ. Wallace, president
of the Salem Water company and trus-
tee of the r. S. Wallace estate, J. NJ.
4 Kyle, of Salem, aud II. F. Wallace, of
Portland. The company has purchased
the finest water power In the valley,
without any exception, and proposes in
time to utilize it for the purposes of
celebrating electricity and kindred in-
,lustries. 1t Is the power produced by
the ditch from the Santiam river to
Ankeny, on the WiIlamette, which
was originally constructed by the Fair.
view Milling and Ditch company. In
\ the past it has only been used for oper.
ating the Ankeny FIGURING mills, but
owing to the magnitude aud possibii-
ties of the water power there this COM
< pany has taken steps to utilize the en-
tire force, and thereby develop the sur
rounding country to large extent.
The Touring mill has just been repair
+ ed and put into complete order with
the latest improved machinery. A saw
mill has already been put up, which
will give q market to fine hodies of
timber, as well as give employment to
many laborers.
In the near future it is contemplated
I to put in great electric power plant,
s for running local enterprises, and for
hire. Lines will be brought to Salem
n to supply power here for all manner of
fenterprises, and particularly to supple
ment the power needed by the growing
business of the Salem Water company.
n For this purpose alone it will prove a
great investment, and will be of untold
value to the city ia future years. In
addition to this the company proposes
4 to foster railroad and street railway
building aud operating, manufacturing
8 of electrical appliances, machinery of
many kinds, aud the building up of a
town to be known as Sidney, at the
present town site of Ankeny s......--.
Railroad or motor lines are contem-
plated to Independence, Monmouth,
d Jefferson, Marion and other points, as
/ we'll as the project of supplying power
to all these places. The company of
men back of the enterprise have suffi-
cient capital, although they are max
4 ing modest beginning, to push their
various enterprises to completion; and
to enlarge greatly upon their present
plans.
The chief object of the organization
a of this company is to deyelop the city
of Salem, where their greatest interests
will be centered. The Sidney power
station will be to Salem what Oregon
City is too Portland, only it will be
even better, for the power is more con
trollable, and is no uncertain quantity
The water is taken fc IN the Santiam,
and, at the mill there is fifty-three feet
of fall at low water, So that no high
water can ever effect the running of
the plant. The fall from the Ssntiam
to the banks of the Willamette, is ia
feet, then fifty three feet fall added at
low water mark, will give Il very large
water power, with a comparatively
email amount of water. During the
late heavy raise of water in the Will
lamette, they had twenty feet fall
and in the great food of 80 they had
fifteen feet fall for use. Furthermore,
the company has g forty foot right OF
way for increasing the capacity of its
ditch, thus making 1t possible to double
the present force of 1900 horse power.
The people of Salem can, at the pres
ent time, hardly realize the great value
this enterprise will bs to our city at
some time in the not far distant future.
The company should receive every pos
sible announcement in its undertak-
ings, as 1t is purely business project,
and one that will be of untold value &c
our CITY, besides proving a bonanza to
the men who are setting il in motion.
ITS OBJECTS,
AS set forth in the articles of incor'
lporations are as follows:
]. Generating electricity, for power
and light, conveying and selling same
Also TO deal in aud furnish electricity
and gas as also other materials used
for illumination, heat and power.
2. To larry un any and all business
appertaining to or connected with thu
above.
3. To manufacture. sell and deal II
machinery and appliances pertaining
to the business; also to sell privileges
for the use Of the same.
l. TO purchase, improve, own, le
aud operate water powers; 10 suppl,
water 70 persons, corporations. towns
and cities for domestic and public use
s. To operate, exeavate, maintain