Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-06-13
WAKENING UP TO
OFT-T0LD FACTS
Outside Talk About Tremendous Water
Powers In lnyO.

power Big Plne south OIL blshop
creek. can be harnessed for the same
number of horsepower, Georges
creek can produce 3, 900 horsepower.
Lone Pine creek, coming from Mount
Whitney, the highest mountain in
tbe United Ststes, can be harnessed
for from 20, 600 to 30, 900 horsepower.
This creek has such rapid descent
that its capacity for power produc-
tion is almost unreasonable. The
Lower Tonopah Gold Mining and
Milling company has located this
creek for the production of electric
mower to run its mines at Lone Pine.
Its engineer has given to the com
pany the number of horsepower this
stream can furnish, and by placing
two restraining dams in the creek,
the power produced would be con
slant. This company will erect at
once a sixty-stamp mill and install
an electric-power plant on Lone Pine
creek. 1t is said that the company
can mine and mill Their ore for 70
cents per ton. Cottonwood creek
can be harnessed for 10, 600 TO Is, 900
horse power Besides there are
many other smaller streams adapted
to the generation of electric power,
all coming from the Sierra Nevadas
II is said the Reward Mine company
has located water power rights on
Big Pine creek. The Reward com
pany bought rights on Bishop creek.
Ed BONANZA Lone Pine creek
can furnish power enough to operate
an electric railroad from Saline Val
ley copper mine to Lone Pine via
Keller. Judge Shutter Cottrell has
been in the valley the last three
weeks looking up the water power Of
the east slope of the Sierra Nevadas
and be says that the number of
horse power lying dormant in lnyo
county is simply wonderful, He says
the truth OF the resources of lnyo
county has never been told. With a
large electric plant at Lone Pine
creek horse power enough could be
furnished to run every mine in east
ern California and western Nevada,
and we might add that it is coming.
The greatest pure soda works in the
world are located on Owens lake and
with electric power it will produce
soda as cheap as any other plant in
the United States. The farmers are
lacking forward to the installation of
electric power, when shallow wells
win be sunk all over the valley for
irrigation Reno Gazette.
In addition to all this generaliza-
tion we quote a press dispatch,
which happens to bear on the same
subject, inasmuch as the Huntington
Electric railroad fiuanciers are nego-
tiating for certain rights upon the
falls of Owens river. This report is
under date of Los Angeles, June &,
and says:
Henry f. Huntington, having com
pleted the business that brought him
to Los Angeles, left the city this
evening for New York. H. f. Hunt
ington expects to have several inter
views with President T.. H. Harri-
man of the Southern Pacific before
he again returns to Los Angeles,
and whether war or peace is declared
between them, he has made what
may be regarded by Wall street as
an open def Mr.. Huntington
has completed the organization of
the Los Angeles lnterurban Railway
company, with an additional capital
of SO, 900, 600, the funds to be used
in further completing his proposed
system of electric railways that will
have headquarters in Los Angeles.
In addition Mr. Huntington has or
gained the Pacific Electric Land
company for the purpose of acqnir-
ing and disposing of lands that may
be necessary in obtaining rights-of-
way as a part of the construction OF
the lines of the Los Angeles Interur-