The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-19
Plans for the Central Station of
Snoqualmie Falls Power Go.
MAY BE FIVE STORIES HIGH.
Contract for Basemeat and One
Floor Set for 81, ooo-Co-s VIII he
3 Increased IL Building d. Entarg-
ed to S55,0oO-Loeation IL Corner
enue s0ufh-stone, Brick md Iron

Another rev and substantial building
viii Soon De started IN tass City tsat VIA
be credit 20 tne n4aay permanent bust
GesS STRUCTURE t1at make ny It's hslsi~
hess center u tle t1wn. The sa0aHAlfIie
Falls Power Company has Just awarded
a contract 10 GrIDs4e & Druhane. % Ia
coma. f3r tie construction Of central
power distributing station. 70 5e located
81 tins northeast corner Of Main street and
Second avenue south.
The work u excaYatiHg and driving plies
for u suD-foUldatiou has been going ca faF
come time, AID Is nearly finished. The
building proper viii he erected on This
p!i.ng. The contract calls for a basement
and one story over f.. bat President e. III,
Baker. OF the company. III speaking % Y
yesterday. said that the structure would
be raised 70 FIVE stories. providing the COM
Iany could secure . proper tenant !pr tse
upper floors. that Is, those over the gFoJna
Ioor. The contract price .3r tas basement
end enc story IS M. and II IA tenant
can be secured among tae wholesale nef~
chants for the upper h4afE the building
wifi b. greeted a cos1 % about Sss.isp
The building VIII b. II stone, brick and
Iron. Steel sR!TAers viii BE used instead
OF wooden Jalsts and It Mi be- made fire
proof throughout Washington Teniao
stone VIII De used Ia lis construction. and
all the other material viii be of home
PRODUCT ne 1AtitifAE ha3tI wa IL 81
TIE classic order ~ architecture, BiH De
l. chapel with tae lower part ~ the j.
ninety feet on Second avenue south ard
aofty-nIue feet Of Main street. The per
peudicu,ar stroke 81 the l. VII extend IL
feet back 10 Tie alley, AID be thirty feet
wide.
Both basement and first story viii be
used for the power company . require neDts
exclusively. The basement will contain al
OF the machinery consisting 't rotary con-
Verters, transformer, u2t9ra. - 5te0-
hoards and other machinery Incidental 10
the business. THIS poRer house. As pan
ned, viii accommodate twire The power
and have twice the space necessary for t9e
power that IA. company Is nov Developing
thg fails.
The company'a business offices will oc-
crpy The ground floor and hc elaborate.y
furnished. with the front all ia plate glass.
Console fafie allow tDCe mas been MADE
for the weather OF tnr present Sc sSOn. and
the contractors have been given three
months IN which 10 complete their work.
u s. the intention % me company. now
ever. 10 give an electric service before th.s
bnlldng u tompIeted, thut IS. SO far AZ as
tornstHR currents. For inc other Uses ~
electricity, the power house vii of course
Ie essential
The Grst inatalImeut Of the new power
II expeetfd 80 be given about the latter
end ~ january
For he FIRST use Of tire power" said SIR.
Baker. we can put our transformers tenn
porarily In some other h4ildlug w.ilie the
new ore + under cons ruciien, 80 that the
row power val Nos b. Delayed while wait
Ing for he new building
The formal uprn Hs of the entire plant
has been set 'or Washinefon's birthday,
although power viii be- furnished In some
extent before thai. Wen II is considered
that the frat work done by the company
az the falls dates only 20 last ApriI and
when the magnitude Of the Undertaking il
taken into consideration. the results al
ready accomplished aud the promise Of
having the plant in fua running order In
side ~ ona year from the date Of the first
work done. speaks volumes for the IN.
terprlsioE spirit Of the promoters and man
ayers 90 the company.
The company now has about twenty
seven miles ~ pole Tine erpcted. ana thest,
Poles ar also erected ia tie city down "a
fae location - tbe rev central fower
house. The electric dya3ma4 ard water
wheels have heguu e. arrive az he fa.ls.
and The work generally is being pushed
ATOMS RAPIDLY.
small s1b-s'asi5n power house has
been butt in GlmaH. the contract for
which was placed with Afr. Erickson. ~
Seattle. \ contract has also hetu award
cd for stii larger brick staten ar Rem
ter to Nj Spur, - Seattle These zssh-
stations Wi, hc used for local .iistr:f,,,ts,ae
purposes and fer switching the current
from one circuit 20 another.