Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1916-05-12
Beach is to Have
Day Service
After improvements in Plant Ex
tending Over Nearly a Year,
Service will Start
May Is.

The long projected day electric
service, which has been eagerly
awaited by Beach citizens for sew
eral months, will become a reali-
ty Monday next, when for the first
time the juice will be turned on
for a continuous day and night
service. improvements to this
end have been going on at the To-
cal plant of the Beach Electric
Co. since early last fall, and in
volved extensive alterations in
the company's equipment and the
installation of powerful new ma
chinery.
The new service was preceded
several months ago by night SER.
vice for Sentinel Butte, which
will now be supplied with contin-
nous service the same as Beach.
The announcement by officials of
the local plant is eagerly well
coined by Beach citizens, and fills
Il want which has been. manifested
for some time.
The work has been in charge OF
resident manager Hugh Hamilton
end H. A. Robertson. both tinan-
cially Interested in the concern,
and though alterations will con-
tinue for some time, a steady SER
vice, except during the daylight
hours of Sunday, is promised.
AnewSO h.p. engine and 25O hip
boiler were installed this winter,
which with the former power
equipment now gives two power
units of 80 and 120 h. p. each. The
smaller engine will be used
during day service, and the lar
ger for night service, or when the
demands for greater power just
ify. A 60 cycle alternating current
will be supplied, with a current of
40 voltage for lighting purposes,
as in the past, sufficient to operate
vacuum cleaners and such small
apparatus as require small mo-
tors. Where heavier demands for
power occur, voltage of 22O will
be supplied, sufficient for the op-
Grafton of heavy machinery.
Extensive changes in the inter-
ior of the power plant were neces-
sary, aside from those which have
occurred in outside equipment,
among them being a switchboard
of twice the capacity formerly
used to take care of the distribu-
tion of power from the new en-
gine, as we'll as the demands made
by the Sentinel Butte line. In or
der to distribute power TO Scntin-
ell Butte, it was necessary to erect
transformers, one at each end of
the line. The Beach transformer
steps the current up from 1900
volts to $4,000. the Sentinel Butte
end again stepping the current
down to its proper voltage.
The improvements have neces-
STATED the expenditure of all inn
mense sum of money, in which
the officials feel justified from the
fact that the growth of Beach and
the need for a stable power sup
ply in the various institutions of
the city warrant it, the present
price of gasoline being almost
prohibitive for power purposes.
Already large number of power
users have signified their inten-
tion to install motors to supplant
gasoline engines. among them the
Chronicle, which hopes in the
near future to have individual
motors for all its machinery.
Mrs. Byron Dilley left last week
for Rochester, Nlinn., where she
will take treatment at the famous
Mayo Bros. hospital. Mrs. Dilley
has not been feeling we'll for
some time. and her many friends
hope her trip will result in an
early and complete recovery.