The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-09

- HE Great Western Power Com
pany has placed on record In
Butte and Plumas counties sew
II eraI deeds. Within
one year and a half it has pur-
chased the rights of the Eureka and
Golden state Power companies.
At Big Meadows a large tract OF land
has been purchased for reservoir
from which the water will be taken IN
a tunnel just below Prattville to Butte
Valley and the Feather. where there is
a fall of 1900 feet This plant will be
one of the greatest IN the world, as
over 100000 horsepower of electricity
will be generated. In all the Great
Western Power Company has planned
to deliver over 5000 horsepower net
in San Francisco. Local IN
terest is conferred in the work at Big
Bend. where s5.500,00O will be expended
in developing over $4,000 horsepower or
electricity. A town will be
started on Hog Flat, the site of the
former village of Big Bend. A force Of
375 men is busily engaged in erecting
buildings, sawmills and preparing for
tunnel work. This force will be in
creased. Good wages are paid. The
men are nearly all reliable and indus
trious and largely Americans.
The Great Western Power Company is
capitalized for s5O,O00 900. At least
two-thirds of this amount will be spent
in developing the power facilities Of
the company. This expenditure means
much for Butte and PlumaS counties.
IT will be of interest to learn
that the Western Power Company has
granted the Western Pacific right of
way over its holdings. approximating
about twenty miles.-Oroville Mercury.
The complete reclamation of bottom
lands along the Mokelumne River,
commencing about four miles east OF
Lodi and extending to a point east Of
Lockeford. has begun and will be
pushed to completion by the joint eff
forts of few progressive farmers. 1t
is their purpose to straighten the river
by cutting a connecting channel half
mile long, thus diverting the over
flow waters from their original crooked
courses. The channel will penetrate a
strip of the lowlands of j. B. Cory, the
well-known orchardist, and when com
pleted about ten acres that now lie on
the north side of the Mokelumne will
be on the south bank and in another
township. the river being the dividing
line. Thus will the reclamation be
I
deposits of overflow sediment have en-
riched. The farmers interested
in the reclamation of these bottom
lands are not seeking outside aid
though it is quite probable that should
attempts be made reclamation dis
| trict comprising a membership of every
abutting property owner between
Lockeford and New Hope could be
/ formed. the river Strengthened to tide
water and thousands of acres of the
richest land in the world reclaimed
! Stockton Mail.
Only. those of the older inhabitants
of Eureka, men who have lived here
/ for half a century, can fully realize
what immense gains have been made
at this port in the way of affordine
/ facilities for commerce. Every dollar
the Government expends here indirectly
benefits the whole of the State of Cal
! ifornia. II will be but a few years
until several tTanseontfnental railroads
will be utilizing the opportunities at
forded at this port for carrying on a
large and developing coastwise and
/ foreign trade. AS matters stand, over
| zoo, 900, 900 feet of lumber is now
handled here annually. besides immense
quantities of all classes of freight. Peo-
| pie of Humboldt County should not lose
sight of the fact that the two lowest
passes through the Sierra Nevada
Mountains lie almost directly east oil
u.s. This harbor forms one of the nat
ural gateways to the Pacific Ocean,
Eureka Standard.
| The Central California Traction Com
pany has received notification from the
American Car Company that four of the
fine interurban electric cars ordered by
the traction company have been COM
pleted and shipped. The cars will ar
rive here within four weeks and will be
! the best electric cars in California
The cars are fifty feet long and
| each is provided with four motors Of
/ 500 horsepower combined. The makers
/ of the cars guarantee that each car will
run sixty miles an hour under ordinary
conditions. and may be speeded to sew
| enty miles an hour if desired. Each
car will seat comfortably eighty per-
sons The cars will take theiI
power from third rail. which has
been decided TO be TAR superior to the
trolley for interuroan traffic. The
| grading of the roadbed between this