Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-01-10
COMING MODERN POWER.

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and machinery necessary to open and
operate the mines of Tonopah, there
is little wonder that owners and
operators look with great interest
upon the Owens river enterprise In
fact, it has come to be regarded as
the ultimate solution of the power
question, not only fer this great
district but for the older and we'll
known mining camps existing between
the two points, The introduction of
cheap and ceaseless power will make
profitable the working of ores which
will not now pay for hois ting out
of the mines For the present,
sufficient work is being done upon the
appropriations to provide all legal
protection of the property rights ac-
quired, and in a short time arrange
ments will be perfected whereby diff
fercnt forces will be added as pro
gress of the extensive work demands.
Thorough expert examination dem
onstrates that the power obtanable
upon only one section of the river
rapids is only excelled by one similar
utilization on the entire Pacific coast.
The Truckee river plant, supplying
Reno, Virginia and Carson, furnishes
$500 horse power, while that of the
San Joaquin company operates with
1900 The noted Kern river plant,
which is being perfected at an enor-
nous cost will consist of five electric
generators. operated by turbines
under 260 #. head, will result in some
thing over $4,000 horse power, the
same to be transmitted to Los Ange-
les. Owens river, less than ninety
miles from Tonopah, is the only place
on the east side of the Sierras from
the Truckee on the north to the Col
orado on the south, a distance of 500
miles, where power of great magni-
tude IS possible. The flow of Owens
river is never less than in midwinter,
when measurements and calculations
were made; in its known history of
over forty wears It's flow was at no
time less than now, neither drouth
or extreme cold effectin greater
reduction. Its initiated by the Casa
Diablo hot springs for one third of
its flow and by Sierra precipitation
for the remainder.
The part of the river selected.
from its debouchre into the Owens
river valley toa point three and one
half miles above, is the one offering
the most economical advantages for
fractional development of the rivers
energy. 1t covers a fall of $50 feet
In three and one half miles. The flow
OF the water is 800 cubic feet per
second maximum and in the few
comparatively level places 200
cubic feet per second minimum,
which gives possible horse power
of 5000 effective in the one district. |
The line surveyed, staked and calcu-
lated is from point known as the
hog back, where tunnel will be
driven, to the site of the power house
near the confluence of the river and
Rock creek, As stated, the head is
ooo teet total, the pipe and t1ume
line distance is II, 200 feet. or this
distance 5000 feet may be wood
stave) piped in the canyon bottom
and II 200 feet in open fiume on the
side hill. The pipe required will be
hve feet IN diameter, and the hume
of size sufficient to correspond This
section of the river is entirely unap-
propriated by any previous power or
irrigation rights. Large us is this,
any future demand for Increased
power has been provided for by the
present owners, who have an adioin-
my section of the river. Messrs
Brougher, Booth and Parker the
Ionopah owners and projectors of
the enterprise, from assurances al.
ready received, have no question but
there will be abundant capital en-.
listed to perfect the entire work
COIN TALKS.