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12 The Newi-Revlew, Roieburg, 0r. Tum., Dae. 20, 1949 Copco Plants To Cost $50,000, 000 North Umpqua Work Includes Eight Units Power Output Will Be Doubled With Finish Of Program By 1953 The California Oregon Power company' live year, $50,000,000 post-war building pro-gram com prising eight new hydroelectric generating plants on the North Umpqua river plus extensive ad ditions to transmission and dis tribution facilities Is designed to meet the ever Increasing electric power demands caused by the phenomenal growth of this area, company officials stated. When . completed In 1953 this building program win more tnan aouDie the company's pre-war genera tion capacity. The North Umpqua project, which will produce 145,000 kilo watts when completed In 1953, is one of the world's unique hydro electric generating installations. Only one of the eight plants in the project, Toketee, will require operators In attendance. The oth er seven units are completely au tomatic and will be operated by remote control from the Toketee power house. All eight plants of the North Umpqua protect will be within a radius of 25 miles. Division Damj Water to operate the generat ing units Is collected by means of diversion dams on the various rivers and is transported by pipe Jines and tunnels through the mountains to the penstocks and generators. Water used at one generating unit, Is passed along lor use at another plant. The Toketee power plant, first of the eight to be completed, has a generatine canacltv of 42.500 Kunwaire ana was built at a cost of $7,000,000. Now under construc tion and scheduled for completion in late 1950 and 1951, respective ly, are Slide Creek and Soda Springs plants. These two units will have a combined capacity of tt (iiitoiau Oncol romi commit MO IUMT Ak NORTH UMPQUA PROJfCT MAP y mm tmum nmm NORTH UMPQUA PROJECT The upper picture shows the eight units of the vast North Umpqua project which will rep reient an outlay of more than $28,000,000 by the time of completion in 1953. At the right it an artiiti drawing of the new Toketee power plant, which it the firit of eight plants in Cop co's five-year building program. Improvements to existing plants end transmission facilities will bring the total expenditure to over dU,uuu,uuu, more tnan doubling the company's hodlings and power output. 29,250 kilowatts and will cost $6, 500,000 to build. The balance of the North Ump qua project, representing an in vestment of $14,800,000, will make an additional 74,000 kilo watts available to Copco custom ers by the end of 1953. Also included in the North Umpqua project are the Toketee Dlxonville transmission line, al ready completed, and the Toke-tcc-Klamath Falls transmission line, scheduled for completion In October, 1952. These two lines represent an investment of $1, 000,000 each. Expand Faoillties Nearly one-half of Copco's pre-sent building program $21, 700,000 Is being used for the ex pansion of existing transmission and distribution facilities and lor construction of additional ones For distribution facilities as well as power plants must be built, in order to keep pace with the needs ol the company s growing service area. The Toketee power plant plus the work already completed and underway on transmission and distribution lines meets today's needs for electric power. The re mainder of the project will be brought Into operation, step by step, to supply the electric power required to meet the needs qi the future. Consumption Hlah The average residential use of electric power by Copco custom ers for the 12 months' period "1 ; wj7iieip I N C A f I E X 0. .- THE WOIUD'S ONIV WATCH WITH THE SElP-PSOrtCnNG HiAHT i v , As odVerttied m 1 i "LIFE" f si. lPfnowlnd, J.ll-W.xd.i. SNtl tJ, qKl"JW tKOoUill3 "5 MMaMMiiiii'i'" M n "M IM p'"7'j ?.? ft jjj NiWCftmMtfte. Ytll. Ttp Jlf.JJ ftr-Teii-r'er-lvtr, OoM-MW JJ.!0 ! r ili Wk (ncoftex bafente wneW ' Across from Douglas County Bank ending Nov. 30, 1949 was 4611 kilowatt hours, while the estimat ed national average for the same period was only 1670 kwhs. Copco'-3 average residential rate for the 12 months period end ing Nov. 30, 1949 was 1.60 cents per kilowatt hour. The estimated national average residential rate for the same period was 2.95 cents per kwh. Copco's pre-war generating ca pacity was 120,000 kilowatts. By the end of 1953, when the North Umpqua project is completed, generating capacity will be more than doubleda total of 265,000 kilowatts! Air Progress Not Entirely Good, Says Lindbergh WASHINGTON -A1F) Char les A. Lindberg says modern man has allowed science to "in sulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born," thus throwing his whole exij tence out of balance. "If we are to be finally suc cessful," the "lone eagle" of 1927 transAtlantic flying fame declared in a weekend address, "we must measure scientific ac complishments by their effect on man himself." To date, he told members of the Aero Club of Washington, the effect has not been entirely good. Lindbergh made one of h 1 a rare public appearances before the aviation group Saturday night to receive the Wright Bro thers Memorial trophy for high public service In aviation. II e spoke on the 46th anniversary of the original airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Lindberg said he greeted the occasion with mixed emotions. Since the time of the Wright bro thers, he said, aviation has "de clined" from an art to a science. "As we have progressed in the science of aviation," he added, "we have separated ourselves from the balanced quality of life. "How are these perfected air craft to be used for the benefit of man, to raise his standards in the deeper sense? "Great factories lull ol work ers, great speeds over the sur face of the earth, great destruc tive power, such items are 1 m pressive; they are even essential to our survival in these chatotic years. "But In themselves they do not contribute to the quality ol hu man life." Big Bend National Park was so named because it lies in a huee U-turn in the Rio Grande River In lexas. ncel I DSSTOV CTN SAW Dependa rertorma with" Designed and built by Diiilon, America's foremost saw manu facturer, this is the saw you need to lower your costs and step up your production. It's easy to operate, and built for trouble-free service. Let us give you all the facts about the Disston Chain Saw with Mercury Gasoline Engine. Come in and talk it over. a CARL J. PEETZ 920 3. Stephens Phone 279 Cultivafe Eiiher Way with ROTOTILLER Among owners results have proved that the Rototitler meth od of cultivation ii the most effective. It breaks weeds and grasses into tiny fragments, pulverizes surface soil and con serves moisture. Where conven tional methods using beet hot, steels, duck feet, etc, are pre ferred, the cultivating attach ment (see small view) is avail able for multiple row work. Com In ... See for yoerseH BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE SAVINGS DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Phone 98 Located W. Washington St. and S. P. R. R. Tracki REA Authorizes $55 Million For Power Co-ops By Dillon Graham WASHINGTON, B The Rural Electrification administra tion said Monday It has author ized loans of nearly $55X00,000 to 10 borrowers in the last 90 days for the formation of super power cooperatives. These cooperatives are combi nations of a number ol small co-ops. They are lormed lor the purpose ol building their own generating plants. Before, most had their own transmission lines but bought power Irom private companies. These lederations have obtain ed more than 50 per cent ol all REA loans this year, the agen cy's records show. Until Just al ter the war, such loans account ed lor only 10 per cent ol REA's total. "There are several reasons lor this trend toward large fed erated systems," explained Clyde Ellis, executive manager. Na tional Rural Electric Cooperative association. "Farmers are geared to elect ricity now," he said. "Much ol their work Is done by electrical appliances or machinery. They can lose a whole" year's prolit as a result of one day or night with out electricity." The REA program started out Drivers License Exams Set Thursday, Friday A driver's license examiner will be on duty at the Roseburg city hall, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 22 and 23, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., according to an announcement received from the Secretary of State's of fice. Persons wishing licenses or permits to drive are asked to get in touch with the examiner well ahead ol the scheduled closing hour In order to assure comple tion of their applications with a minimum of delay, the announce ment states. primarily to set up power dis tributing systems to serve farm ers, with most ol the power sup ply coming from private utilities. However, since 1935, REA has loaned more than $315,000,000 for generation and transmission. The agency said this is about one sixth ol the total loans ol $1,960, 000,000 lor all purposes. One lourth of the standing saw timber In the U.S. is Douglas fir. 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