The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
LYNDEN BRANCH OF LIGHT co
NOW HAS A NEW NAME

The name of the Puget Sound
Traction, Light & Power Company
has been changed to the Puget Sound
Power &c Light Company. The rea-
son for the change is due to the fact
that power and light business forms
the great bulk of the business done
by the company.
This can be readily understood
when it is known that the company
does an electric light and power bust
ness in 142 cities, towns and villages
in the Puget Sound basin, the terri
tory covered extending from the Ca
madam boundary line at Sumas to
Olympia on the head of the sound.
The development of power demand
compels the company to concentrate
it's energies on power and light lines.
more general than the public real
The Identification of industry is
ICES, and now ontop of this coming
the electrification of railroads. One
of the very largest single power GUS
toners in the northwest now is the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad. A large amount of current
was taken during the war by the
shipyards and other war industries.
The Milwaukee railroad demand
takes up demand that had been re-
leased by the partial suspension of
war industries.
The Puget Sound Power & Light
Company has hydro-electric plants
at Electron, on the Puyallup river,
at Dierringer on White river, at SnO-
aualmie and Nooksack Falls on the
North Fork of the Nooksack in the
Bellingham district.
The combined plants nave a capac-
ity of 114,700 horsepower hydro-elec-
trio in the Seattle-Tacoma Everett
district and steam plant capacity Of
more than 10000 horsepower. In
he Bellingham district it has capac-
ity of about 5000 horsepower hydro
electric and 1000 steam. The total
capacity in the Seattle-Tacoma-Ev Ever
EFT district is approximately $4,000
horsepower and in the combined dis
tricts about 1877. 900 horsepower. The
company owns several valuable but as
yet undeveloped hydrO-electric pow
err sites and has sufficient storage
at Lake Taps to further increase the
capacity of the White River plant.
1t is the purpose of the Puget
Sound Power & Light Company to
give its undivided attention to the
power and light business and to do
everything humanity possible to en-
courage industry in the Puget Sound
region by making it possible for any
and every industry to have at its
command an adequate power supply
at all times and in all seasons.
In supplying the Milwaukee for its
railway operation the Puget Sound
plants we're interconnected with the
plants Of the Washington Water Pow
er Company, whose principal devel-
opments are on the Spokane river:
and other systems in Eastern Wash
ington and Idaho. The interCOnnect-
ed systems give total of 800 miles
of transmission lines and general
ing capacity of more than 100000
horsepower. By constructing thirty
miles of transmission between Ev-
erett and Mount Vernon, connection
with the northern district Of Belling-
ham, there would be added to this
the capacity of the Bellingham sta
tions and 10000 horsepower addi-
| tional capacity by reaching the West
ern Power Company of Canada and
the British Columbia Electric Com
pany's plants. The aggregate in that
event would run to a total of ABS, 900
horsepower
Such capacity will carry ire
mendous industrial load distributed
over wide territory.