The Washington times., 1909-10-10
PUBLIC VS.. TRUSTS
LINED UP IN FIGHT
Attempt TO Corral" Nations
Water Power Cause of
Controversy.
HOPES OF PEOPLE
CENTER INLEADERS
Taft, Bsuinger, and Pinchot waging
Battle Against Corpulent
Corporations.

surprising TO learn that four OF them
belonged 70 the Edison Electric Core
pany and one g the Kern River Power
Company. The only plant now complet--
ed By the former corpo-ation-tne first
or lowest. and known as plant '.Fv'-de-
veloped 5o.0o0,000 kilowatt-hours of cleo
tric energy last year. which was trans
mitted a short 90 miles TO Los Angeles
and sold for all the various purposes
for which such power can be used.
or take the Southern Power Company
l OF Charlotte, y. G. All. there's a cor
poratiou 20 make you think OF the good
old DAYS. \ map issued by il is before
me as J write. Eleven PANTS It is yet
70 deTNiiop, four It mas developed. And
with ifs four which il has developed IL
has already gobbled the markets OF
Greenville and Spartanburg. S. c, ana
Newton. Salisbury. Lexington. Winston
Salem. Greensboro. Graham. AMI
Raleigh. y. c.
At Whitney, 5. c, on the Yzdlxfn
river. nearer by sixty miles 10 D,,r.ap,
and Raleigh than anv nlanf IF tbe
Southern. was an independent novAr
station erected at cost Of e nm ona
with developed horsepower OF % ana
II ana All It's horsepower can be bourhr
now for 500.O00-one dollar for ten T.
l ~ -I-a
independent, the Southern had IN ualTa
circuit Of 200 miles. But il 1i6 nal
such circuit. and when we know tbs+
AeSsrs- b. y. Duke, J. b Duke. ard
Junius Parker. Of the American Tobar-
co company, are officers and dfrecto-z
perhaps We shall not be SURPRISED
Prospectus Tells
An Interesting Story.
A car+af,
Halsey q Co, OF ~ Wall streef NOT
long ago tells an equally interss+;,..
story OF California. It i dated o..
tober l, 1907, advertises bond issns
OF S3,Woeo, in the name Of the
Pacific Gas and Electric Companv
ana calmly presents the following as
basis for the issue:
Inc company's operations extend in
10 tWenty-three counties Of central cal
ifornia, containing 81, ,4S9 square miles.
or over. four times the area. OF the en-
IRE state Of New Jersey. One hundred
ana nine cities. towns, and lesser com
munlties are served. In each of these
| one or more OF the companv.s p-od
ucts-gas. electric light. electric pow
er, and water-are supplied. Among the
more important places are Oakland,
Sacramento, san Jose. Berkeley. Stock
ton, Fresno. Alameda, and, Indirectly,
San Francisco. These comprise eiRht
of the ten largest cities OF the state
The street rsETsy system of Sacra-
mento, a city Of 1900 people, is also
owned and operated.
The close alliance OF the California
Gas and Electric Corporation "a cor
pOration subsidiary to the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company with the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Company
] l. Lee.
former the entire San Francisco market
as an outlet for such surplus hydro
electric power as il may deem IL ex-
pedient to develop. The advantages o.
this situation 10 both companies are
obvious.
The numerous streams rising in the
Sierra Nevada mountains and falling
TO the low levels of the central valleys
of California AFFORD unsurpassed oppor-
tunities for hydro-electrical develop
ment The power rights on many of
these streams. including the most val
liable, have been acquired by the Cal
iforria corporation.
BY the control or the one hand, ,
Of the best and mosJe economical water
mowers, and, on the ether, Of the mar
kets for power through ownership Of
the distributing companies IN the prin-
cipaI cities and long-terh contracts with
large users of power, the business OF
the company Is beyond the reach OF
serious competition.
The San Francisco Gas and Electric
Company (alsO owned by the Pacific
Gas and Electric Company supplies
The city OF San Francisco with gas and
electricity without any competitor.
worthy of serious consideration.
How These Rights
Were Gobbled Up.
How did they get it-these men of the
Edison company. the southern COM
pan, the Pacific Gas and Electric Com
pany?
Well, the Kern River Power COMPANY
went 20 the Department OF the Intericr
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