Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-10-31
WATKINS PRESENTS FEW
BONE POWER BILL FACTS
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and win out, but I do not believe
that the people can be so deceived BY
them.
BY carrying on a vigorous cam
paign we won the fight. The voters
voted in favor of the Wynooehe
power and water project.
In their propaganda they made
many assertions.
They said the Wynooche project
was no good-Then promptly gave
themselves the lie, by trying to obtain
it.
They said the project was unsound,
that the cost would be much greater
than estimated.
Now lets US examine the Wynooche
project, estimates ETC., by comparing
this project with the Cushman project
now being constructed by the city
of Tacoma.
They are located on streams whose
sources are in the same region. The
development sites are but twenty
four miles apart. The Cushman
storage basin is the same as the
Weatherwax, only little larger, the
dam sites are very nearly the same,
The Cushman dam will be higher,
longer and thicker. The canyons at
each damsite. is almost duplicated
by the other, except that the Cush-
man canyon is wider.
The diversion tunnels at each site
are practically the same, except that
the Cushman tunnel will be longer
and of greater diameter. The power
houses are located relatively the
same.
The Cushman transmissions lines will
be many miles longer than will be
required from the Wynooche. The
Cushman transmission lines will also
have some long spans over arms of
the sound and over the sound itself
at the narrows. The Cushman Trans
mission lines will cost from three to
four times more than the Wynooche.
The total water supply at the Cush-
man project is greater than at the
Wynooche.
The two projects are similar in
many respects. The one outstanding
difference being that the Cushman
is larger in all respects.
The same engineers, ]. L. Stann-
ard, and B. E. Torpen, made the
estimates of cost for the Cushman
and Wynooche and at practically
the same time.
Nearly all the contracts for the
construction of the Cushman project
have been let to reliable contractors.
These contracts have all been let
under the estimates, as a result the
Cushman project completed will cost
from 100000 to 100000 less than
the estimates.
AS the estimates for both projects
were made at the same time and by
the same engineers, it is absolutely
fair to assume that the estimates of
cost of the Wynooche project are am
pie, and that individually the project
will be completed for less than the
estimates.
So much for the propogandists.
The Wyonooche will go through; and
the people will come into. their own.
They are aroused and ready to fight
this monopoly.
We have before the voters now
two measures, one a Referendum,
measure known as the Reed Bill;
the other an Initiative measure called
on the bollot Initiative Measure No.
/ So, commonly known as the Bone
Bill.
The Bone Bill was introduced in the
last legislature; but the power cor
porations could not stand for it;
hence their lobbyists and agents got
busy, pulled the necessary strings
and pressed the necessary buttons, as
a result the Reed Bill was passed.
The Reed Bill will allow cities to
sell their surplus power outside their
limits. But the Reed Bill also pro-
vides that if the cities dare take adj
vantage of the opportunity and sell
power outside their limits; they will
be fined or penalized by the IMPOSE
ion of a tax not only on what they
sell outside their limits, but also on
| what Jney sell lnSloe bneI hIiiAeS.
The power companies laughed in
hellish glee when they run that bill
through; and believed they had killed
the Bone Bill.
But the Bone Bill is also on the
ballot, as an initiative measure, with
double the signers to the petitions
necessary to place the bill.
Now the electric corporations are
again out with their propaganda.
Through their paid advertisements
in the newspapers; through their fic-
tious "Citizens Committee; through
their friendly or submissive news
papers; and through their paid
''Welfare Agents, they are spreading
their propaganda against the Bone
Bill; and prophesying dire calamiti-
les that will fall on each and all Of
us if that bill passes.
They condemn the bill by sections.
Let us examine it by sections.
Section provides that any city OF
town can sell electric current to any
other city, town, governmental agency
vauuicinai eornoration DerSOn firm