The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 22

STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917, PAGE 22 nef ee ee ee ee ey CITY'S NEW LAKE UNION STEAM PLANT Your City Light and Power has made it possible for our shipbuilding indus- tries to compete with the eastern manufacturer. This is due in a great measure to the unusually low rates established by your City Light Depart- ment, which tend to offset the freight rates from the east. Seattle has now under construction 12% of the ships being built in the United States; 21% of all the steel ships are being built in Seattle, and the greater portion of the power is supplied by the Municipal Plant, which also feeds many electric steel furnaces and many attendant minor new industries. Your Lighting Department today has 47,000 consumers, and increasing at the rate of 4,000 per year. The Lake Union plant has over 12,000 H. P. in steam and with 16,000 H. P. now being rapidly added, will be one of the largest steam plants in the northwest. In addition to the citv’s Cedar Falls hydro-electric plant, another hydro-electric plant of 40,000 H. P. will soon be constructed with the $3,000,000 in bonds which are now authorized for the work. eS ll Lenn oak) 6 ewe kee hee 6 Oe em eee eee 4 @ ewe Ferme eowrecers® =n