The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-15
A FORMER MONTANA woMAN's
SUCCESS IN NEW FIELD.
MRS. Tut PROvESACENIuS
Organizes and Manages. Corporation in
Arizona for Constructing Immense
Electrical Power Plant.

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printed an article from a southern
California newspaper giving the ex
ploits of Mrs. Iva E. Tut in the world
of electrical engineering, a field hith.
erto considered as peculiarly reserved
for the energy and skill of the oppo.
site sex. The article possessed much
local interest. as the lady who has ac-
CURED fame in a new direction is well
known to many hereabouts. She and
her husband, 3. S. Tut, we're among
the first settlers of this part OF the
Yellowstone valley and for several
years lived on a ranch between Park
City and Columbus, finally leaving for
the coast.
In the first article were given some
of the initiating details of her work
in Arizona, for then her scheme for
the generation and transmission OF
electrical power had progressed but
little beyond the preliminary stages.
Now, however, it has advanced so far
that the final stage-completion-is
apparently neal at hand as the follow
ing from the Los Angeles Herald will
show:
Mrs. Iva E. Tut, who holds the dis
tinction of being the only known wom-
an in the world who is an electrical
engineer and actively engaged in that
work, is at the Broadway Van Mugs
with her daughter, Miss Margaret
Tut. Mrs. Tut is the general man
ager of the Arizona Power company,
which is engaged in a big scheme for
supplying electrical power to several
mines in northern Arizona. Three
millions Of dollars are invested in the
business, and it was Mrs. TUFTS brain
and ability thai engineered the project
from a theory to a half-completed real
ity. Mrs. Tut breads newspaper noto-
iety, but a Herald representative yes
terday who wanted to know something
about electrical engineering from a
feminine point of view, was graciously
received by Mrs. Tutt. She had an
interesting collection of photographs
taken by a professional who was in
her surveying parties-pictures of gil
gantic cacti, ruins of the cliff dwell
ers, some wild mountain scenery and
a few peculiarly handsome old Indian
chiefs. There were snapshots OF
miners at work hundreds OF feet be-
low the earth's surface and of her sur
veying parties. There were birdseye
views of towns and country scenes and
even four snapshots of a hanging at
fair. Mrs. Tut had the history of each
of these at her tongues end, and her
descriptions were exceedingly interest
ing.
Is Decidedly Womanish.
When surveying trips are men
toned, Harvesting water and the like.
one draws an imaginary picture of a
rather mannish woman, %sunburned and
doing the outdoor work OF a man. But
Mrs. Tut is not the least bit mannish
appearing and is not s%unburned more
than the ordinary woman at this time
of the year. Occasionally she goes
into the wilderness with her corps oil
surveyors, but the work primarily is
Office work. The project has been
mapped out, there are men to carry
out the plans, and Mrs. Tut sits in
her Office at Prescott and attends to
details and oversees things in much
the same that the manager Of
a street railway or any like corpora
ton does.
The First Work.
About Is months ago the first steps
in the establishment of an electric
power plant of 5000 horse power ca.
oacity on Fossil creek, for the gen
ration and transmission of electricity
% Prescott and a large mining sec.
ion between Fossil creek and Pres
Dtt, a distance of 81 miles, were I'm.
Iertaken. Mrs. Tut was the prime
mover in this enterprise. A shrewd
business woman, she realized the
great ucce that might be attained
by the installation of an electric power
plant near Prescott. She determined
to facilitate the development of one
of the richest mining regions in the
world. There were plenty of streams
dn that region that could be pressed
into service.
The first work to be done was the
construction of a wagon road to the
ute chosen for the erection of the