The record-union., 1899-09-06
MORE POWER FOR THIS CITY
THE YUBA ELECTRIC CIRCUIT
NOW ADDED.
Last Night 1000 Horse-Powe1
Was Turned on, With 1000
More Soon to Come.

Inc announcement was mace III tHS
Record Union on the I'd of last April
that the Sacramento Electric, Gas ana
Railway Company had made a con-
tract with the Yuba Electric Power
Company for the transmission OF 0UUO
horsepower to this city to augment It's
1900 horse-power plant on the Amerl-
can River at Folsom. The contract
called for 600 horsepower to be de-
livered in this city by August 1st.
The work of constructing the line was
delayed somewhat, but the 1000 horse
power current was turned into the Sac
ramento Company's large transformer
at : O'Clock last evening, after traVerS-
ing a distance of between sixty-four
and sixty-five miles from the Yuba
Company's plant. This tremendous
motor-agency was utilized for three
hours and then shut off until to-day to
permit of some Slight adjustments in
the complicated mechanism of the
mammoth switch board at the distrib-
uting station.
Aluminium wire has been used exclu-
siyely in the construction of the new
line, also for the telephone system used
by the Sacramento and Yuba Com
panies between this city and the lat
ter's plant, sixty-five miles distant.
Messages exchanged over the telephone
wire yesterday We're as distinctly heard
as is usual over half-mile line.
The Yuba Electric Power Company
is a corporation, with a capital OF
$1,000 600, and authorized to create a
bonded indebtedness of 81, ,000,0OO. John
Martin is President, and c. A. Grow
Secretary and Treasurer. the COM
panys principal office being in San
Francisco. They are now operating
1900 horsepower, furnishing electric
current to Brawns Valley, Marysyille
and Yuba City.
A new plant of largely augmented ca
pacity was recently erected, located
near the Yuba River about four miles
below the junction of the North and
Middle Yubas. The hydraulic install
lation consists of masonry construc-
tion enlarging the present dam, and a
new timber flume eight and one-half
miles long, seven feet wide and five
and one-half feet deep, with a grade
of 12.S feet per mile, and a capacity Of
$4,000 cubic feet per minute, giving an
effective head at the power house of
6SS feet, capable of generating 10000
horsepower.
An insurance reservoir will be con-
structed, to hold 1O0,000000 cubic feet
of water, which will be connected di-
reetly to the forebay at the head of
the pressure pipe line. This reservoir
VIII furnish 10000 horse power for six
days continuously thus affording am
pie time for any repairs to the fume
which may become necessary.
The electric installation will for the
present consist of an aggregate of 6,UOU
horsepower. The pole lines to SacraE
mento have two circuits of three wires
each, and will be operated at 10000
volts pressure.
With the additional i, 900 horsepower
to be brought into Sacramento from the
Yuba Company's plant the local CAM
panys 1000 horsepower supply from
Folsom will be more than duplicated.
This will place Sacramento at the front
as regards cheap electric power for
lighting and motor uses.
The full Importance of this great en-
terprise can at present hardly be real
lied, as it will open UP a vast field for
the employment of electric power in
enterprises for which steam power
cannot be utilized economically.
Already mining companies operating
in this, Placer and Yuba Counties are
negotiating for power; local manufac-
turing establishments that have not
already discarded steam are also pre-
pairing for the use of electricity, and
there are many other avenues of in
dustry that will be opened up as soon
as the additional electric energy con-
tracted for shall be brought to the
city for distribution.
Sacramento is now practically free
from debt, has vastly reduced her tax
rate, and is in a splendid position to
sieze upon the great advantage which
this augmentation of her electric sys-
TENS viii give her over other commu-
mites Capitalists looking for safe and
lucrative investments will surely be
attracted hither, and with the increase
of industrial enterprises there will be a
demand for labor that will greatly add
TO the population and the consumption
of the products of home industries.
Albert Gallatin, manager Of the Sac
ramento Electric, Gas and Railway
Company, was greatly pleased last
night over the success of the lone
transmission of power from the Yuba
River. Mr.. Gallatin was the first tc
move in the matter of utilizing this
great natural power in California, on a
large scale. and it is gratifying to him
now TO know that with the passing OF
the experimental stage of the new en-
terprise a bright future is opening fo1
If