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Thomas A. 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
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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!
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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.
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great numbers. The 10-mile long
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PACIFIC POWER O LIGHT ON THEIR
den Anniversary
50 YEARS OF FAITHFUL AND PROGRESSIVE SERVICE
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