The record-union., 1899-04-02
SACRAMENTO
TO THE FRONT.
Large Increase in Electric Energy
to be Installed.
Five Thousand Additional Horse Power for
This Market-Good News for
Manufacturers.
acturerS.

lent dam. and new timber flume eight
| and one-half miles long, seven feet wide
| and five and one-half feet deep, with
grade of 1913 feet per mile, and capa-
| city of $4,000 cubic feet per minute,
giving an effective head at the power
house of 6SS feet, capable of generating
15, 600 horse power. An insurance res
ervoir will be constructed, to hold
100, 0,Oo00 0O0 cubic feet Of water, which
will be connected directly to the fore
bay at the head of the pressure pipe
lime. This reservoir will furnish 10000
horse power for six days continuously,
thus affording ample time for any re-
pairs to the f1ume which may become
necessary. The electric installation
will for the present consist of an
aggregate Of 6,OOO horse power. The
pole lines to Sacramento will have two
circuits of three wires each, and will be
operated at 10000 volts pressure.
Aluminium wires will be used as con-
ductors.
"The policy of the Yuba Electric
Power Company is one of progression,
being willing to enter any field where
power is required. After allotting the
Sacramento Electric, Gas and Railway
horse power for the city and county of
Sacramento, contracted for by them,
there will be a surplus available for
| other cities. towns, mines, ETC., between
the point of generation and Sacramento
City.
1.-THE plant of the Yuba Electric
Power Company from the first day of
its operation has earned more than in
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most gratifying to it's stockholders, the
largest of whom are R. r. Colgate,
manager of the Atlantic branch of tae
National Lead Company, and John
Martin of San Francisco, which gentle
men own the control of the company.
The expenditures of this company
have been very large, and its policy is
TO spend all it's money, when possible,
in the immediate neighborhood where
work is being done, and customers for
power are found. There are now being
employed in the several departments
of the company $50 men, and within
thirty days over 500 more will be on
the company's pay roll. Poles, wires.
insulators, generators and transform
ers and all necessary apparatus have
been ordered for the proposed new in
stallation. The first electrical genera
tor will be installed and ready for fur
nishing current not later than August
], 1888, and the entire installation of
6,OJO horse power will be completed not
later than October 10, 1899. When this
is completed the Yuba Electric Power
Company, besides furnishing current as
before mentioned, will also furnish elec-
| trio current to Oroville, Colusa, and
other towns, now being arranged for
THE Nevada County Electric Power
Company will have it's plants supple
mented with power from the plant of
the Yuba Electric Power Company.
The water supply available at the
power house of the Yuba Electric
Power Company's plant, by actual
measurement, made by W. r. Eckart,
NJ. E., C. E., at the lowest stage of
water last summer, showed sufficient
water to generate 1900 horse power
continuously under the head available" +"
The General Electric Company being
interested in the Sacramento Electric,
Gas ard Railway Company, sent one of
their experts to examine into the IA
cilities of the Yuba Electric Power
Company. The following is from his
report:
THE dam at the head of the fiume
will be very substantial. I cannot say
too much with regard to the fine quail
ity of lumber for the fume, which the
company is saving at its mill north of
| Camptonville.
The company will have an effective
head of about $50 feet The power sta
ton is to be built entirely of stone. and
designed go that its aggregate capacity
can be brought up to 1900 horse
power
From the best information that I
can obtain from records, the lowest wa
ter that has been recorded in the North
Yuba has been from 10000 to 11,OOO
miners inches.
In addition to this water there is a
reservoir to be located two miles back
of the power station, which will have
a capacity of 100,0O0000 cubic feet
This will be connected with the fore
bay of the power station by two miles
of pipe.
As whole. I think the Yuba Eleo-
trio Power Company will be a success
as far as the production of power is
concerned, and there is very little liza
bility Of its ever having any accident
which will prevent it from furnishing
power at any and all times"
From the foregoing it viii be aprar-
ent what an important accession is
about to be made to the electric power
resources of the city of Sacramento.
1t means that the city of Sacramento.
already greatly favored in this respect.
can go on increasing its utilization of
electricity under conditions not paral-
ieied elsewhere on the Pacific Coast.
Inc results cannot fail to contribute
largely to the growth and prosperity of
the city.
The Sleeping Beautv.