The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-07-09
NEW POWER COMPANY
MAY ENTER DISTRICT
DAMS TO BE BUILT NEAR ADOi-
TiONAL ELECTRIC ENERGY
NEAR THOMPSON.

new company that has recently been
Incorporated, for the purpose OF de-
veloping power along the Clarks Fork
below the present gea, power site,
Ed Donlan of Missoua is the main
promoter of the enterprise, and he has
also been prominently identified with
the big power plant at Thompson
Falls. The fact that MIR. Donlan Is
heavily interested in mining in the
! Occur d'Alene district gives special
interest to this new company here,
and leads to the belief that furnish
i ing electric power to the Occur
dAlene mines may be one of the pur-
poses in view. The Ledger says;
| The New Company.
"ITnder the title Inter- State Power
company, articles Of Incorporation
have been fled here with the county
clerk and recorder, said articles Civ
ing the purpose of the company as
formed for the transaction of a mer-
camille, Industrial, manufacturing and
mechanical business, and in connec-
ton with such business, to manufact-
ure make. create, produce, generate
or otherwise obtain electrical power
to appropriate. locate. claim purchase,
divert use and otherwise acquire wa
ter and water rights without as we'll
as within the state of Montana; to
construct dams, acqueducts, bitches,
fumes, etc.
"Also to sell. lease, grant or other
wise dispose of so much of the water
or rights not used by said Corpora
ton to other corporations or individ-
uals, etc.
1.-THE life of the corporation is 20
years, principal place of business
Thompson Falls; capital stock, $3.50,
O0O divided into $500 shares Of 500
each, of which Edward Donlan sub
scribes to $50 shares, I. f. Keith
share and Andrew Peterson l share
the above named gentlemen being the
incorporators.
1T is rumored that the immediate
purpose of this Incorporation is to &C.
quire the various water powers be-
tween here and the Montana-Idaht
inter state line on the Clarks Fork o.
the Columbia river.
Several Dams Constructed.
ut is also reported that crew o
labout 20 engineers is now engaged il
surveying the lines of the land pro
posed to be overlooked by the cree
ton of numerous power dams alon
i. this river, and that land so proposed
to be flooded Is being condemned 70
: public use.
ut is further rumored that Their
: will be one dam located near BelknaI
one near the town of Trout Creek an
one at or near Cabinet gorge or Her
D on, and possibly another at a favor
, able location between here and tn
state line.
, 1T is also assumed that this proiec
e is the hand of the Montana Powe
e company is finding more market an
:. demand for power than they can sup
p ply with their present existing plant
E and are seeking other desirable site
with which to supply that demand.
> Parties who have received notice c
condemnation proceedings are to NEE
here on the 30tb, so it is stated, an
make arrangements for settlement
| claims.
with new contracts and reasonabl
!, prospective contracts aggregating owe
10000 horsepower for 1914, and wit
= the normal increase in its proftahl
!. retail business the Montana Powe
company has practically all of its no.
) available waterpower resources mar
keted and they must seek new field
4 to supply the demand.
Great Power Possibilities.
, 1--WE are Just beginning to realiz
s that one of the greatest assets Of San
ders county is her water power $
advantageously situated as to b
available for Harvesting UP for hydro
: electric plants, and in a country wher
the demand will soon exceed the pos
sible supply. Without a powerful fin
4 ancial company behind it these asset
would continue to lie idle. as has bee
the case for the past generation, an
S we are most fortunate to have men
: push, enterprise and money. like Ser
G ator Donlan and his associates, VII
q can see far enough ahead, realize II
n magnitude and have the nerve to pr
n mote these enterprises.
II "The development Of water powe
= in the west end of the county meal
: great things for that section. 1t mear
" that cheap power will be available f
: pumping water from the Clarks Fol
re river onto the thousands Of acres
= tilable, level land all along the In
between here and the state line.
Power for Milwaukee.
"whle the ultimate purpose of Il
construction of these proposed nun
IS erous power plants is undoubtedly f
70 the furnishing of power for the ele
10 IRRIGATION Of the Milwaukee, Northe
Of Pacific or other steam railroads.
j., for electric roads, at the same tll7
$. cheap power will be available for Il
re- ranchers and the towns along the lin
sr and in this electrical world and a
RS this means everything in the way