The record-union., 1896-07-06
COMPANIES CONSOLIDATED.
Electric Power and Light and the Street
Railway Company.
The Ownership Remains the Same,
But There Will Now be But
One Company.


the recently Incorporated Sacramento
Electric, Gas and Railway Company, all
the property and interests of the Folsom
Water Power Company, also all the
property and interests of the Sacra-
mento Electric Power and Light Com
pany.
The first mentioned company has con-
structed and owned the extensive water
power property on the American River
at Folsom, which furnishes the motive
power for the electrical trta nsmission
plant NOW operating in this city, and the
phenomenal success of which has so
widely spread the fame of Sacramento
City i'm engineering circles all over the
world
The second company has been the
owner and constructor of the extensive
electric plant at Folsom, the itransr1is-
sion plant between Folsom and Sacra-
| mento and the electric system in Sac
ratnento, which now furnishes this city
with all the electric current necessary to
operate all the arc and incandescenIt
Nights, the Electric Street Railway sys-
tenn and electric motors THAT are fast
supplanting steam, making Sacramento
the leading electrical city of the Pacific
Coast
The new consolidated Sacramento
| Electric, Gas and Railway Company,
which thus absonbs these great proper
ties, has also in its capita lizaaion made
liberal provision for their extension and
amplification which the future growt h
OF this prosperous city will assuredly
| make necessary
The parties interested and comtroll-
ing the new corporation have mainly
been connected with the original cor
| pCl'ation from their inception, so that
there will be no change in the contl.oll-
| ing prOprietOrShip. AT a meeting of the
| Board of Directors of the Sacramento
| Eledtric Gas and Railway Company,
held on the Both of June to finally rat
| ify the purchase and consolidation of
the properties Of the original corpora
ulons, "a permanent business organiza-
| tion was effected. The Board of Direct
ors of the Sacramento Electric, Gas and
Railway Company is composed Of Albert
| Gallatin, President Horatio P Liver
more, General Manager and Treasurer;
| W. 5. Goodlfellow, L z. Drexler and
Albert GallaItin, Jr.
| The business of the company HAS
grown so rapidly and is of such an i'm
portant and complicated character, that
it has already been found necessary to
make such arrangements that the Cen
eral Manager shall permanently reside
in Sacramento, and shall be man of
the widest possible experience in the
| handling Of electric transmission, mo-
tive power, railway and lighting plants.
| Having this in view arrangements have
| already been effected whereby c. p Gill
| bert, now Managing Director of the Eldi-
son Illuminating Company of Detroit,
| Mich. and widely known through hout the
East in all electrical circles as a man of
great capacity and experience in man.
| aging such plants, mas been secured to
| act from and after the 1st of August
next as General Manager of the Sac1+a
rnento Electric, Gas and Railway Com
pany.
| Mr. Gilbert has become interested in
the conpany's stock as proprietor, and
will also be Ma anaging Director. This
| VIII relieve the present General Mana
| ger, Horatio p LivermOre, who has had
occasion to realize that the handling OF
the "details Of the colnpany1s affairs
while not able Ito reside permanently in
| Sacra1nentO-was more of a burden than
| he felt satisfied to continue to carry
The 9dmini5tra of the company's
business affairs will, therefore, after
| the LIST of August, be in the hands OF
Managing Director c. P. Gilbert, wht
win undoubtedly commend himself tc
the people of Sacramento city and
county as a man most highly fitted fol
such a responsible position.
Under the new organization OF the
| Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway
Company facilities will be afforded Sac
| rameT1to TO easily take the lead off Pa
cific Coast cities in all that relates tc
| perfect and cheap electric lighting, elec-
l'tr'ic motive power for manufactures and
| electric street car transportation
In addition to these branches Of di-
rectly applied electricity, the company
as its name implies, expects to deveioI
a large business in the nlanufa cture Cor
a portion of it's surplus electric power
at Folsom) of the wonderful new Hum
inant, acetylene gas, which European
| and Eastern scientists agree has an il
| iuminating capacity over twenty times
that of sixteen candle power coal gas
and is free from the producing and
atmosphere vitiating properties Of coa
gas.
This new illurninant lis of a character
that permits 1T ito be transported in suit
able tanks to any part of ithe country
and connected directly with gas fixtures
already in use. Tt requires certain nat
ural constituents that are abundant and
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