The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-11-26
POWER PROJECT PERMIT ISSUED
 FOR MILL HERE
Federal Power Commission Acts Favorable on Two
 Alaska Licenses
ZELLERDACH AWARDED FINAL LICENSE, ALSO
Authority to Construct $4,- 100000 Power Unit
 Is Now Received

The Federal Power Commis-
 sion yesterday granted the ap-
 piication Of George T. Cameron,
 publisher of the San Francisco
 Chronicle, for final license to
 construct a power project com
 prisod of plants at Speel River
 and Dorothy Lake, and at the
 same time granted a similar li-
 cense to I and J. D. Zellerbach,
 San Francisco, for a similar
 project near Ketchikan.
 Word of the Commissions action was received here last night by The Empire from the Associated Press and by Regional Forester Charles H. Flory from B. F. Heint- zleman, Asst. Regional Forester. who is in Washington.
 Is Highly Satisfactory
 While no details of the licenses were received here, in his telegram to MT. Flory, MT. Helntzleman said the action of the Commission was highly satisfactory" The Zeller- bach license, he added, is provis- ional as to Swan Lake. A suit was filed recently in the District Court of the District of Columbia, by J. T. Jones of Tacoma, to restrain the Commission from granting a permit on that unit, alleging pos- sessory rights This case is set for hearing next Tuesday and Forest Service officials are confident the suit will be unsuccessful.
 Both projects are to be used to furnish power for pulp and paper plants proposed to be established near Juneau and Ketchikan. Each of the initial units of both plants. 1t is estimated, will cost approxi- mately $15,000000
 Will Go to Frisco
 As soon as the Jones suit hear ing is terminated next week, MT. Heintzleman is expected to leave for San Francisco with the power l- cense and timber sale contracts. MT Flory said today. He will sign them on behalf of the Government and representative of the Cameron and Zellerbach interests will sign for their principals.
 No hitch is foreseen in the mat ter of signing, MT. Flory added. All preliminary details have been lroned out in the negotiations and investigations during the past three years. It is known that the Commission hsa been ready to act on the applications at any time during the past 30 days. but had to postpone action from time to time awaiting the clearing up of certain details relating to both power and timber. These were satisfactorily concluded early this week, clear ing the way for final action.
 S4'000,000 Power Plant
 MT. Cameron, with whom is as- sociated Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. filed his application for a final license cov- ering the hydro-electric project on June IA, last, after a period of in- vestigation covering three working seasons. At the same time he sub mitted plans for development show ing the cost of constructing the power project to be about s4,OO0 900.
 The project called for the de- velopment of 8l0O0 horsepower from three source s-Long and Crater Lakes at Speel River in Snettisham Inlet, and Dorothy Lake in Taku Inlet. Power plants are proposed at all three points. a transmission line from Speel River to Thane, together with transform CT stations and power sub-projects. Three tunnels are included in the project, one at each lake tapping It beneath the surface and pipe lines carrying the water directly to the turbines.
 Start at Snettisham
 At the time the plans were filed with the Commission, MT. Cameron informed Forest Service officials he would be ready to begin work on the big project within six months after the license to proceed was granted by the Commission. The initial work contemplated at that time was driving the tunnel at Long Lake, to be followed by the tun- nels at the other power sources as needed.
 No information was available to-
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