Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-10-17
TO ADD TO
CITY PLANT
CITY ELECTRICIAN OUTLINES
PLAN FOR INCREASE.
WOULD INSTALL ANOTHER PLANT
Engineer Butterfield Estimates That
Capacity of Lighting Plant Can Be
Increased so Per, Cent at Cost of
$4,000.

H. G. Butterfield, superintendent
of the. city electrical plant, in a re-
port to the city council tells of the
status of the present plant and out
lines plan for increasing the plant as
follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and Council
of Ashland, Ore.
Gentlemen: In regard to the ex-
tension of the present municipal cleo
trio light and power system, l wish
to make the following report:
During the period beginning Janu-
airy l, 1912, and ending the 30th of
September, 1912, the receipts and
expenditures have been as follows:
Receipts, including the amount due
the electric light fund from the gem
eral fund for street lighting, $13,-
573.51, or an average of S1,50S.14
per month.
The expenditures for maintenance
during the same time have been $4,-
651.S4, or an average of $516.S7 per
month.
Inaddition there has been spent
for construction $7,6S9.36 and inter
est $2,347.95 during the period of
nine months.
From the above we see that the re-
ceipts of the plant above the main
tenance cahgres, which include the
operation costs, is an average of
$991.27 for this nine months. A
fund of $94S per month would be suf-
ficient to retire the bonds, paying
interest on same, and provide for de-
probation on the plant. So that at
present the plant is paying a profit
of $43.27 per month with constant
ly increasing income.
A new plant situated in the Ash
land creek canyon at teh lower in
take of the waterworks and using
the same water over that generates
power at the present plant, by draw
ing the water from the pipe line that
extends from the power house to the
top of Crowson hill gap, would gen.
crate 175 kilowatt by changing the
two ten-inch pipes from the lower
end of the 1S-inch pipe to a point
at the bottom of the hill near the
lower intake to a 24-inch pipe. In.
Guiding the changing of the pipe line
the cost of the installation of 800
kilowatt direct-connected unit woulC
be $15 800. In view of the fact tha
! $7,6S9.36 has been spent in the las
nine months on construction and the
constant demand that is being made
for new extensions of the lines il
town, think that $9,500 should b.
provided for that work next year 81
that the money demanded by nev
construction will not be made bur
den in the present plant. This woulc
make total of $4,000.
l have specified or suggested
300-kilowatt plant because by chang
ing the two 10-inch pipes to a "a
inch all the way through to the to-
of Crowson hill gap and there con
structing a small reservoir, the lowe
plant would generate 800 kilowat
and in mo- way interfere with the wa
ter system. The present 1S-inc
would also have to be changed to
24-inch. We would then have a "a
inch pipe line from the present pow
er plant to the top of Crowson hi
and double the capacity of the pres
ent plant. This latter change in tn
pipe line would not have to be don
for several years, as the expenditur
of SIS, 500 would increase the pre-
ent capacity of the electric light sy'
tenn by over SO per cent.
Yours respectfully,
H. G. BUTTERFIELD,
Superintendent