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
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NORTH UMPQUA PROJfCT MAP
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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
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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
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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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Grants Pass, charged with va-
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