The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-03-23
TPOWER COMPANY TO
EXPEND A MILLION

In connection with the purchase of
the Hood River Power 4 Light Com
pany at Hood River and the Husum
Power Company at White Salmon the
Pacific Power & Light Company OF
Portland annunced last Thursday its
intention of expending 81, 900, 900 in
the development of distributlve
sytem of electric power along the
Columbia River for $50 miles.
The Hood River plant will be in
creased from $500 to 5000 horsepower
and the White Salmon plant will be
enlarged. A cable will cross the
Columbia River connecting the two
properties. Material has been ordered
for high-tension line between Hood
River and The Dalles, thereby connect
ing Hood River, Mosier, White Salmon
and The Dalles in one circuit, and with
the development of both the White
Salmon and Hood RiverTpIants this will
give ample power. Surveys have been
started and a high-tension line will be
built this Summer from The Dalles to
Umatilla, l2l miles. The line will
cross the Columbia to Luzon and eX-
tend up the Columbia to kennewick,
where it will meet the new transmits
sion line just completed from Walla
Walla to kennewick, and from Kenne-
wick it will go to Priest Rapids thus
connecting all of the company's proper
ties and giving abundant power for
pumping for irrigation and for lighting
and commercial use.
The high tension distributing lines
will represent an expenditure of $780,
600 while the increased power Develop
ment at White River, Hood River and
White Salmon probably will represent
another $500, 600.
Engineers are making estimates of
White Salmon of the maximum power
available and it is believed that 1000
horsepower can be added to the present
amount in use between the towns of
Hood River and White Salmon. The
building Of the cable across the river
and the high-tension line to The Dalles,
distance of q miles, will create suffi-
cient power with all plants working to
meet all of the demands of the neigh
borhood. 1t is part of the plans of the
company to furnish power for irriga-
tion pumping. The building of the
line to UmatiIIa Luzon and kennewick
and finally to Priest Rapids will give
the company one of the most extensive
electric plants and long-distaonce lines
in the West.
"These plans" said President Talbot
of the Pacific Power & Light Company,
edo not include our heavier plans for
1912. We are rather proud to be able
TO get the money at this time of the
year to do all these things and we
know that it will be pleasing to the
people who are hungering for power
to pump water on irrigable lands
where there are no gravity bitches. -
Oregonian.
The above report has been confirmed
by Albert S. Hall, local manager of
the Pacific Power & Light Co. The
cable spanning the Columbia, he
states, will be an underground one.
This connection will make it possible
for the company to give continual
service. In the past, this city was
without light when anything went
wrong with the plant here. If such
should happen after the improvement
is made the necessary power can be
brought across the river and vice
versa Another statement made by
Mr.. Hall and one that will be of parti-
cuar interest to the Valley residents
was, that lines would be pushed this
summer into every section that would
give them business enough to justly
| the extension.