The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1907-02-22
POWER PLANT
WILL BE BUILT

alton, composed of Nevada and
California capitalists, are carried
out, not many months will elapse
before another electric light and
power company will be stringing
wires into Reno to bid for trade.
The new company also intends to
enter Virginia City and Carson
City and to compete with the
Truckee River General Electric
Company, which now supplies the
cities of Reno, Carson, and Virginia
City with power and light.
The company is building an i'm
mence power plant on the west
upper branch of the Carson river,
which will generate more horse
power than the three power plants
of the General Electric Company
combined. This plant will be fur
nished with power from reservoir,
which will be when completed the
largest reservoir in the state and
which will take up all. the lower
portion OF Hope Valley.
This information was given out
last night by prominent civil and
electrical engineer, who is closly
connected with the company build
ing this monster power plant and
who states that they will be unable
to buy the plant of this company
and combine it with their others,
as they have always done with
other plants in this portion of the
state.
The plant will generate more
than 5000 horsepower and will be
without a doubt the largest power
plant in Nevada.
In speaking OF this immense
power works and the company be-
hind it, last night the engineer,
who does not want his name known
at this time, said: "Last summer
agents of this company, which is
composed of some of the wealthiest
men of Nevada and purchased all
the lower portion OF Hope Valley
on the upper west branch of the
Carson river as well as all water
rights in that locality. srhey then
put the engineers into the field
and had a reservoir site surveyed.
This reservoir will be formed by
damming up the lower end of Hope
Valley and forming an immence
lake The power plant will be
built at the lower end of this lake
and will have sufficient water
power to develop at least 5000
horse power This power will be
Transmitted to Reno, Virginia City
and Carson City and will enter
into competition with the Fleish-
hackers, who own the Truckee
River General Electric Company.
The capitalists backing this COM
pany are well able to spend hun
dreds of thousands to build this
plant and intend to make it
paying proposition.
Construction engineers are now
on the ground at Hope Valley and
are prepared to begin work on the
dam across the mouth of Hope
valley Immediately. They are
now making roads and preparing
to have material hauled to the site
for the dam. | know the name of
this company, but am not at liber-
ty to make the name known at
this time. l can say, however that
the company will be the larges.
electric power plant in the. state of
Nevada. 1t may later be associ-
ated with the great Clark system,
which is going to be built in Cali
fornia this spring and summer.
"The power plant to be built by
this new company will be few
miles from Woodford's, in Alpine
county, Cal, and will be quite
close to Virginia and Carson. 1t
will have to string its wires quite
long distance to enter Reno, but
will have sufficient power to string