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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1960)
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Edison's dynamo was the basic oquipmant in tho 18S0s lor many pioneering plants in what is now Paclltc Fo war land. Ado quato (or their era. the small output would supply only a traction of energy utd by the smallest towns today. POWER GENERATORS KEEP PACE WITH REGION'S ELECTRICAL NEEDS Demand lor electric energy builds like compound Interest. In the Pacific Northwest the need for electric power at the end of each 10-year period Is twice what It was at the begin nlng. Pacific Power L Light Com pany. meeting Its public utility responsibility, has planned and built for 50 years to have the power ready for Its customers when they want It In 1910 a Pacific Power spokes- man amazed an audience gath ered In Walla Walla to hear about the new company with the statement that $30 million would be spent In the next 20 years to assure Pacific's customers all the power they needed. Policy hasn't changed, but the amounts of money needed to finance the work and the vast quantities of power produced have greatly increased. Two years ago PP&L com pleted its 268,000 kilowatt Swlt hydroelectric project on the Lewis River a major part of a record program and a project that cost nearly twice as much as the company's 20-year spend ing program forceast in 1910. Projects Assure Supply In the past ten years Pacific Power spent $105 million dollars to bring in 500,000 kilowatts of new power generation to supply its customers' growing needs. In addition, Pacific contracted to take a total of 560,000 kilowatts from three dams now under con struction on the Columbia River. Other projects assure PP&L of another 127,000 kilowatts in the next few years. "It is our intention to insure that our customers may always be able to depend on an ade quate power supply," E. Robert de Luccia, PP&L vice president and chief engineer, explains He is one of a line of chief engineers on whom the responsi bility for anticipating and meet ing the customers' power require ments have rested since 1910. This department can never rest, says de Luccia. Pacific Power's outlays for construction in the next 15 years are expected to total $1 billion dollars. Big Project Planned Pacific Power has applied for two further projects on the Lew is River, which could add a total of 202,000 kilowatts to the com pany's power resources. It also has proposed to build the Eden Ridge project on the Coquille River in southwestern Oregon. This would add an initial 77 000 kilowatts. Plans call for even tual construction of an 100,000 kilowatt steam generating plant using nearby coal deposits. Pacific Power is a partner In the Pacific Northwest Power Company, which seeks federal authority to build the eventual 1,750,000 -kilowatt High Moun tain Sheep project on the Snake River. PP&L currently is adding a 100,000-kilowatt unit to the Dave Johnston steam-electric plant in Wyoming, where the first 100, 000 kilowatt unit is Wyoming's largest power supply. All of these projects are a far cry from the little. Isolated plants PP&L took over in 1910, when it began tying local elec tric systems into a dependable economic power supply network which could give the customers all the power they could use. Early Plants Improred The best of those little pio neering plants, such as the Walla Walla River hydro-electric statir.n between Pendleton andil 143 Main Waila Wa'.la. were bolstered with ' additional generators and madej more efficient As housewives be can learning the time and labor saving miracles of electricity, and as Industries turned to elec trie power, new and larger plants were built By today's standards these earlv-d.iv nower stations are small, but some were engineer ing feats in their day. The Tygh Valley power plant south of The Dalles, Ore., for Instance, was built at the bottom of a steep canyon and construction mate rials were transported down an aerial tramway. The plant's pow er capacity was only 2,250 kilo watts a drop as compared with one of fhe Swift plant's 68,000 kilowatt capacity generators. The Condit plant built in 1912 13 on the White Salmon River In Washington was another engi veering achievement, for there fwere no roads in the wilderness area. Materials, men, food and fuel had to be transported up the The Condit plant's 9,600 kilo watts made It large for Its day. So was the Big Fork plant near Kallspell, Mont. Later, L. T. Merwln, who engi neered the Condit project, ex plored the Lewis River as a power supply close to Portland. The company's pioneering dam on the Lewis at Ariel later was renamed Merwin Dam to honor the engineer. Water Flow Re-Used Above Merwin Dam now stand Yale dam and the recently empleted Swift project, the world's highest earthfill struc ture with Its quarter-million kilowatt powerhouse. Every household whether tepee or mansion was a protpect In the 1920's when use of electric appliances were promoted by Pacllle Power & Light Company's own salesmen. All company outcee naa displays of latest "electric Uing- advantages, as accepiance ei ap pliances became established, the company turned Its promotional . a t naif I - - efforts to assisting local appliance aeaiers in rrk "- Itiee. Tax Payments Large As a taxpaylng citizen and supporter of local government services Pacific Power Light Comapny paid $6,295,000 in state and local taxes for 1959. When the projected Muddy and Meadows projects high on the Lewis are completed, water from the high reaches will turn generators at six projects on the Lewis before It flows into the Columbia. The PP&L hydroelec trie projects will have a generat int capacity exceeding 670,000 kilowatts. Pacific Power is preparing as well, however, for the day not far distant when all economical hydroelectric power In the North west has been developed and the reelon must turn to coal or nuclear sources. It has already proved up over 150 million tons of coal suitable for strip mining near Centralia, Wash., and an other 50 million tons in south western Oregon. With other utilities PP&L is snonsorlng research aimed at hastening the day when elec tricity from nuclear power can be provided Its customers eco nomically. RCDDT K&OWATT Your tlctri Srvret Wish To Congratulate Pacific Power And Light Co. on Their Golden Anniversary! MOTOROLA - RCA STEREO-HI RADIOS T.V.s UNIVERSAL - COFFEE MAKERS FRY PANS GRILLS TOASTERS RECORDS NEW OR OLD GONTY'S HPPta6f PP&L Develops Lake Parks For Public Pioneer In mny fields. Pa ciflc Power & Light Company also was among the first elec trtcal utilities to provide Its cus tomers and neighbors a recrea tonal area utilizing the water and shorline of company hydro electric developments. Merwin Park, a forerunner of an extensive and continuing roc reational development carried on by Pacific Power on Washing ton's scenic Lewis River, has been a popular picnic and swim mlng park for the residents of the Pacific Northwest for more than 25 years. An average of 100.000 persons visit the picnic grounds each summer to swim in Lake Merwin, to play Softball or pitch horseshoes or Just to laze in the sun. New recreational parks on the shores of the reservoirs behind Merwin, Yale and Swift dams were developed the past year and immediately proved popu lar. A typical park is at Speclyal Bay on Lake Merwin. It Includes protected wading area for kid dles, a warming shelter with fireplace, picnic tables, a con crete boat launching ramp and large parking area. Fishermen use the lakes In great numbers. The 10-mile long lVw -k-- 'A,n t LaCiM iAIt Bir cfct ww emu Mnamn KEEP OREGON GREEH Hunttrt con'f b too cortful with fir in th wood. When fir breaks loot it destroys food an J cover for swU gome that took Nature years to flrow. Good huntert ere good woodsmen. They or cartful with ciga rcttts, maiches and campfires. 4IHHIIHHMIIIIMIMMIieillMHIHHIHIMHIHtlllHIIIIMIHIHmiHIIIHIMHHIimHimiHMHIIIHIlllll Mmm C!jiin)iy Grain Growers ! L 5 V 5 -4" t hi nu,,ii tarn tin EXTEND CONGRATULATIONS TO PACIFIC POWER O LIGHT ON THEIR den Anniversary 50 YEARS OF FAITHFUL AND PROGRESSIVE SERVICE Morrow County Grain Growers Association s
