The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 5

EATTLE’S NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANT CONSTRUCTED AT CEDAR FALL First Photographs of the Buildings and Machin- ery, Taken Exclusively for The Star---A Fine Plant That Needs Only Proper Connections to Supply All of Seattle With Light---Reasons Why a $600,000 Bond Issue Should Be Voted By the People. nt eet tate he | : SUPT. YOUNGS’ ESTIMATES . : 7 7 5 ; Give in Detail the Manner in Which It Is Proposed to Spend J a “y ae S r © “F 7 : the Money for Extensions and Betterments Throughout the 4 J 7 ~ + ; (Photo by J. A. McCormick.) City--A Matter of Interest to Eve rybody. : MUNICIPAL GENERATING PLANT BELOW CEDAR FALLS. The Star presents today the first photographs of the city’s | had cost the property owners of this city $863,832.06, and | ness enterprise and successfully, or whether they desire the how electric light and power plant at Cedar Falls. there was left in the fund available but $80,037.41, not suffi, | greater part of the money already expended to lie idle | clent to carry on any of the improvements contemplated ‘ For the purpose of enlightening the councilmen fully These photographs were taken especially for this paper It has been the theory of City Engineer Thomson, Super+ | Superintendent Youngs has prepared a statement showing the a the prevelence of | intendent Youngs and the other city officials imterested if | Cost of the plant up to date, its financial condition at the g the prevalence of a severe snow storm. ~~we\ tlose of the year 1905, estimated earnings for 1906, and the est week d ‘ —~ ~~ ~—< also necessitate the building of a new transmission line from . omew’ . | estimated cost of completing the generating and distributing " * lence they present a somewhat unique appearance, showing F id & & © | the plant at Cedar Falls to the sub-station in the city. This b | | system of the plant s a jwintry landscape unusual for Western Washington. |” The earnings for 1906 should be, according to Superin- sot SRNR ATE LEER LI 8 x } ; | tendent Youngs, $91,000. This estimate is t 1 on the sup- | The pictures are of peculiar interest at this particula: gS, P91, stimate is based on the suf P P particular }position that the $600,000 in bonds will be issued and that all “f Next Monday evening the council will determine whether of the contemplated improvements will be made i- . ! | Of the improvements, $165,000 is to be devoted to street i nt to th people th i ) 7 s fwill submit to the peoy question of issuing bonds | lighting. This includes the expenditure of $75,000 in the i | ® f 7 the sum of $600,000 for the purpose of extending the dis- oper of poles, $33,000 for cross arms, insulators, etc 35,000 for the necessary wire, $32,250 for the cost of install- ing 2,500 incandescent lamps, and $17,280 for the installation of 500 arc lamps. | To properly care for this increase in the distributing sys- ag portion of the lighting system. That the council will act tavorably upon the request of lighting department and conclude to give the people an prtunity to vote upon the proposition seems probable. It then rest emtirely with the voters of this city whether the tem $7,860 must be expended at the power station. In addi- tion to this it is proposed to install at the station one new unit | } ributing system of the plant shall be built up so that the ras Ps This will include one 1,800 K. W. water wheel at a cost of capacity of lant may be utilized or whether the ben- — on $7,500; one 1,200 K. W. generator at a cost of $7,851.40, and is of the municipal industry shall be denied to a very large (Photo by J. A. McCormick.) | the equipment made necessary by these additions, amounting jon of the city. j “ “ sa . - | altogether to $25,807.19. On January 1 last Seattle's electric light and power plant VIEW OF CEDAR LAKE, SOURCE OF CITY'S WATER | At the sub-station there must be expended $9,016.20 for AARP PEEPLES | SUPPLY. new transformers, switchboards and regulator | brit ing the municipal plant up to the highest standard of 2 op pa Rae Pa usefulness, that no time should be lost in extending through- | out the city distributing lines both for the purposes of street | lighting and residence lighting. It is also desired by these | officials that extra equipment required at the plant should be installed ir diately so that at the earliest moment possible | the city light and power system shouki be in a complete state jand thoroughly efficient | At the present time the system of distribution now in- | stalled can care for but one-third of the current which the |plant is capable of generating. In other words, for the lack lof the money—which is asked for through this bond issue— the investment represented in about two-thirds of the city's (Photo by J. A. McCormick.) | RESIDENCE OF CARETAKER AT POWER PLANT. will r ¢ three lines of No. 2 copper wire, each thirty | miles in length, and costing $19,000. Fourteen hundred poles, the necessarw insulators, cross arms, etc., will bring the ex- pense of this portion of the work up to $59,196. For commer- g there will be required an expenditure of $280,000. s first estimate of the 1 required for the work to | be undertaken the cost was p’ d at $811,589.39. This was made up as follows | plant is allowed to lie idle. As a purely business proposition | New unit at Cedar Falls .........00+++ $ 35,807.19 lthis is bad. If an individual were to do such a thing he would | Transmission line from Falls vsssee $9196.00 lbe considered a very poor business man and not capable Sub-station equipment for new unit 16,876.20 | of handling enterprises of any sort —— << | Extension of distrit " ts for street | In order to utilize all of the power which the plant is | lighting . e+e 241,630.00 jcapable of generating, and to bring the plant up to a proper | Extensions for commercial lighting...... 350,000.00 | standard so that the public may reap the greatest benefits pos- | Underground conduits in city .. «+++ 108,080.00 sible and that it be made a successful enterprise, it will be crs ‘ | necessary for the council to determine on next Monday night Total $811,589.39 (Photo by J. A. McCormick.) | to saci A to the people this proposition of voting $600,000 in | (Photo by J. A. McCormick.) This estimate was cut by the council in committee of the RAL VIEW OF MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT AT ponds. Then it will be up to the people to say whether they © Ee whole to about $600,000, the amount the public will pe asked CEDAR FALLS. | want their municipal lighting plant to be conducted as a busi- | MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT DAM AT CEDAR LAKE. jto vote for the work. | | mendous hit on the cireuit, playing} 1 S S Vets Was ene of thé crew of’ the] at the many house: from two to Vv . } | singers hard to beat Adele Purvis} . * . t Onrl, a spherical dancer ape arm afr ES Ees | BANG CONSIDERED For Six Cents The Rosclan Opera company at/t De Carlos and Stokes, hor. | rand opera house last night introduce] t make a hit. The company 1*/ sor 2 Reoble & mateurish, and the ex In ye ay ANNAPOLIS, Md, Ja a Pound ne A Safe Place » the performance gave, Mr ning Lieutenant Graham id - peers ¥. Walters, as Count Verado,|t - We . L Nn b 4 Steel 0 far " ‘ oo Ree eater ar esl t“furteaction of the our = We Do Your Washin “ered seaned of » very good tenor ne pa om < , re "De land t was repen y ator aw ger bank In Wash t ed the “Dreamland f “ sine 08 - na the 8 “eat : : pe Mikad * v ra ian " asl) od onside he p ” 2 er ts tm the avin, bundie - > . “4 y ate | | pous wice a ye Ww a will be seen at the Third 4 as c 9 o'clock a le @ theater next wee =) NW HOSPITAL Girl and Yankee Doodle Boy,” a0 | Wednesday night. The 1 for the} WASHINGTON, Jan SPECIAL INDUCEMENT emainder of the eng f New ———— It tells of the persecutions! be. This evening, "The Mikad a e White H {the hero by the villain and of th night, “Fra r trying t ze nt oat fick alace Laundry Co b ‘ an Girl T nigh a nin He war . D C , gh enid at f e ‘Chimes of Normandy 1 which he could reach the STEAMSHIP ALAMEDA SAL kana | wort VAGE SALE oth Phones Jrama ‘ r-] T M At the Novelty Cloak and Sult r | “ f M v Mfr. Co. Main Office and Plant, Bighth and Olive Down Town Office, 1512 The feature ot the Star next week| Norman Hapec n with | Picke . t od 1207 SECOND AVE. Ave, Near Pike St will be Geamon, Adams and Rogers. lbel, was de t « by a I r " Opp Pantages Theater, This aggregation has made @ tre- jury yesterday w Y ty to the fate of her son, A. Pickering, geese,