Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-02-18
'B|G POWER PLANT
 WILL BE STARTED
OFFICIALS WILL LEAVE FOR Fos- sIL CREEK ToDAY-wILL GET CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY AT ONCE.

PRESCOTT, February I7.-Prelim.
 mary work of harnessing the waterfalls
 of Fossil creek, fifty miles east of here
 will be started at once by the Arizona
 Power company and prosecuted with en.
 ergy until electric power is ready for
 distribution to customers in the princi
 pal cities, towns and mining camps of
 the country, which will be, the manage.
 ment expects, early in 1909.
 Officials of the company, who recent. ly arrived here from New York and San Francisco, will leave today for the sites of the two proposed power plants on Fossil creek, where they will meet the consulting engineers and decide upon al details of the work.
 The undertaking is the largest of it's kind in the United States and bears the distinction of being the largest en- terprise financed in New York in 1907. It involves an expenditure of s2,000,- 900 in the installation of the generating machinery of the two plants and the building of transmission lines and sta tions.
 A road will be rushed to completion to the lower Fossil creek spring, where the first and largest generating plant will be installed. Work will also be started preparing the site for the ma chinery and the management gave out yesterday that the building of the transmission line would be started with three large forces of men, one at each end and one in the center. When the lower spring is harnessed and the trans- mission line finished the plant at the up- per spring will be. installed and con nected with the other
 Some idea of the stupendousness of the project may be gained from the fact that, according to the estimates of the eompany's engineer, 10000 barrels of Portland cement will be used in the foundation for the plants, which will comprise electric and hydraulic ma chinery weighing 750O00 pounds. The steel towers will require l,250,000 pounds of material in their manufacture and the water conduit pipes will require almost the same amount. The transmits sion line towers will be forty-fve feet high, set 800 feet apart, supporting two circuits of three wires each, carrying 40, 0,000 volts. The insulators will be fifteen inches in diameter The voltage will be reduced at stations in the diff ferent mining centers, from which wires will be strung to the camps. Accord ing to the estimates the construction of roads will cost $30,000.
 The transmission l:ne will cross the Verde river, two miles above its con huenee with Fossil creek. Following a northwesterly course across Hueston basin it will reach the summit of the Black Hills range at the head of Syea- more creek, which it will follow to the Agua Fria river, continuing westerly to a point on the Bradshaw Mountain railroad between Humboldt and Mayer. A station will be built there, and one line will continue up Big Bug creek to Poland. From Poland to this city it VIII touch tne "ouht thio", NaSh' Storm Cloud and Senator mines, com ing here by way of Groom Creek. From here it will be built across Lonesome valley and the Black Hills to the plant of the United Verde Copper company at Jerome Another line will be built ! along the Bradshaw Mountain railroad, ] touching Middleton and Crown King. | A second station will be installed at the latter place, from which all the pr;n- cipal mines and camps in the Brad. 1 shaw mountains will be supplied with power and light.
 The officials expect to return from Fossil creek in ten days and establish offices here.