The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-02-22
POWER COMPAN
GETS Guyana CO.
MINNESOTA POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY NOW CONTROLS
Guyana POWER.

Announcement has been made by
the Minnesota Power & Light Com
pany of the purchase of the Guyana
Range. Power Company which sup
plies electric light and power to the
Guyana Range mining district and
the surrounding territory north as
far as Park Rapids and Walker.
The principal cities served by 1.-THE
Guyana Range Power Company are,
Brainerd, Crosby, Ironton, Deerwood,
Sylvan, Pillager, Motley, Sebeka,
Park Rapids. Akely and Walker.
The Company also sells power to the
Pine River Power Company which
serves several towns lying north Of
Brainerd, consisting OF Nisswa,
Pequet, Pine River, Mildred, Backus
and Hackansak.
The property of the Guyana
Range Power Company consists of
an extensive $4,000 volt transmits
sion system connecting the various
communities served, hydro-electric
plants on the Grow Wing River
located at Pillager and Sylvan and
steam plants located at Riverton and
Akely., This power system is also
connected to the Little Falls Water
Power Company system by $4,000
volt transmission line at Staples and
Little Falls. The Announcement of
the purchase of the Little Falls
Water Power Company was recently
made by Minnesota Power & Light
Company.
An extensive development pro-
gram is to be carried out immediate
ly by the Power Company in the
territory which it served. It is
estimated that some five hundred
additional men will be required to
complete the work contemplated.
Construction work which will con-
meet the present property of the
Minnesota Power & Light Company
serving Duluth, Superior, Cloquet
and the Mesabe Range territory to
the Guyana Range Power Company
system will be started at once. This |
connection will be accomplished by
tapping at Riverton the 10000 volt |
transmission line now being con-
structed southwesterly from Nash
wauk to the present hydro-electric |
plant of the Little Falls Water Pow
er Company at Little Falls and the |
new $4,000 Horse Power HYDRO
electric plant now being built at I
Blanchard Rapids approximately
eight miles south of Little Falls on
the Mississippi River. The Mime
sofa Power & Light Company has
recently completed a 10000 volt |
transmission line from its Thomson
Power Station on the st. Louis I
River to Nashwauk.
A transformer substation will be |
constructed at Riverton which will |
transform the power from the no.
900 volt line, running from Nash
wauk to Little Falls and Blanchard
Rapids, down to $4,000 volts for in I
terchange of power between the /
present Guyana Range Power Com /
pany and the Duluth, Range, Clo-
quet and Little Falls Systems. Adj /
ditional transmission lines are con-
templated in the mining territory of
the Guyana Range which will insure
TO this important mining territory
adequate and reliable power supply
for its future development.
Officers of the Company state,
1--WE consider the connection of the
Guyana Range Power Company
system with the Minnesota Power &
Light Company power system,
very important development. This
connection will be of great mutual
benefit to all the communities of
both power systems. 1t will tend to
carry out further our endeavor to
have our hydro-electric plants on as
widely separated streams as possible
has shown that on many
rivers there are certain times when
because of low yatr, it is not pos
sible to get al the power that is
desired from them. We however,
find that on widely separated rivers