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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1914)
JPA'QE POUR, MDFORD MATT, TRTBUNE, MEDFOttD. OREGON. THURSDAY. .TANUATCY 1, inM. Farming by Electricity an Accomplished Fact 1. . , , i ! if U J J '.I i I; I 1 The California-Oregon Power com pany supplies electric service In Jose phine, Jnekson mid Klnntnlh coun ties In Oregon nnd Siskiyou, Shasta and Modoc counties In California supplying electricity to nil the towns from Grants Vats, Oregon on the north to uunhinulr, Cnllfornln on the south nnd also supplies electricity to Klamath Kails nnd other towns) ad joining. Electric service Is supplied by tlvo power plants: Prospect plant, Prospect, Oregon, supplylug 7000 horse power, Gold Itny plant, Gold Rny, Oregon, supply ing 3000 horse power; Klanmth plant, Klamath Falls, Oregon, supply lng 800 horse power; Kail Creek, plant, Kail Creek. Cal supplying 4000 horse power; Shnsta ltlvor plnnt, Shasta Hlver, Cnl supplyln.; 000 horso power. Five plants cup plying n total of IK, -100 horse power. The company Is now building a new plant on the Klamath river. 13 miles from Thrall, Cal., which will have nn ultimate capacity of 50,000 home power. A dnm Is being built In a rock gorge of the Klamath river that will be 130 feet high, 90 feet thick at the base nnd will contain 1 fin. 000 tons of concrete and steel. This dam will form a storago re servoir or lake of 1000 acres and al though the river has u flow at this point of SO.OOO miners Inches, it will tako the storage reservoir above the dam 20 days to till wheu tho water is turned in. In order to divert the flow of the EIHViifJjJki'ittT-Ti-HHHIflBlslHHsflHnri " i HmHH ,kIHHBBiZtH9?'?''HiBlyilHiH IIPsflDHEfllMiMJXNRbHPISflSHfL BjraA9flKHiflrjH -iiisBiiisisiisiiBKi IBBMHBlHIHHiHBHHHHHHilHHHHHHBIHiHiBHHiHi Diversion Point on ttppvr Hojjucj river nt 1'nwpect ley ore doing all their cooking byi electricity and many more families make a partial use of electric cook lnc devices. There are nutonintic water to build t&ls dam, it was nec-jlMtrc cooker8 now on markel cssary to excavate a tunnel in tho that can bo ,eft f()r ,J0Ur5 wlthout solid rock 16 br 18 feet and 360 feet !attont,on( ,vllh no danBer ot ourn. long to carry tho entiro flow of the iuK tno (ooa river around tne foundations of the! RiPrie r'vinp u nnt mnfino.i m tiJ BtthL-i ''-rvi Hk-'VvJfl 1 Gold liny Dam anil I'ikmt llouKrt dam. The foundations for dam and power house aro in and carried well abovo tho high water mark, and tho com pletion of tho dam Is merely a mat tor of handling a large amount of concrete. Tho rock crushers and concrete mixers are all on a side hill and all material is handled by grav ity until deposited in tho dam. Two 'water wheels and generators ot 12.GQ0 horse power each are now on the ground and the company x pcctB to bo supplying power from this plant before September, 1914. Tho company owns its own rail road thirteen miles long connecting with the main line ot tho Southern Pacific at Thrall, Cat., and up-to-dalo has hauled to tho new power project fifty carloads ot cement nnd sixty carloads of machinery. Extensive Improvements and ad ditions aro also contemplated by the company at its Prospect plant at Prospect, Oregon in tho, near future. Modern IJgttts Electric service from a luxury has becomo a necessity. Lighting with tho modern high ef ficiency Tungsten or Mazda lamp is a vast improvement over that in use a few years ago. Not only does the lamp give a whiter light, but tho current consumption has decreased and tho price of electricity been re duced so that It is posslblo to get four times ns much actual light for one dollar as it was ten years ago. KlectrJc Cooling. Electric cooking is no longor an cxporlmeut but an assured fact. Over 200 families In tho Hogue River Val- fk fhi' . : ."'rY' f : 4i . - . t ? ! c v " " Vff-r . i ' k?vv" . ' ' &' ii : i i ' . ",! K k i X. household use, as there are three largo restaurants and one hotel in Southern Oregon who do all ot their cooking by electricity. Electric Heating. Electric heating Is tho latest appli cation ot the electric current nnd great improvements have been made in electric heating appliances In the last few years. Its great advantage Is the entire nbsonce ot any smoko or odor and it is especially applicablo to rooms difficult of ventilation. Not only are air heaters supplied but heating units are made that can be connected directly to tho pipes or furnaco of an ordinary hot water heating system and used to heat an entiro 'building. Several such instal lations aro in successful uso on the system of this company. The principal objection to tho use of electric heating in tho past has been tho largo amount ot current re quired. To beat a room 20 feet square, for examplq. requires the samo current that It would tako to opcrato a fivo horsepower motor or to light 200 sixteen power lamps. On account of having a market for a largo amount ot electric power that Is used for electric pumping In tho summer, the California-Oregon Power company has made a rato for electric current to bo used for heat ing in the winter only that hns en abled a number of Its customers to Install electric heating systems, there being Boveral complete business buildings and a number ot residences hented entirely with electric heat, besides u number :'i!;v;,.t ssa pyrgwepywi LHL j l &: MB . , t Sk Mr HB JM ''-tV ' ll X mu LBbHcflslH (DHHCiAsSHBHHHHsaHIBsl w l'ouer Houi-cnt I'ro-iHTt, Hliimlug I'lvo lltindreil Kiot Vertical Drop booths, bath rooms in residences and I at a time when other heating nppll- similar rooms nro heated with elec tric heat. Electric Water Healing. One of the greatest of household conveniences Is an always ready sup ply of heat. Electric wntor heaters can be connected in series with the water pipes to heat tho ordinary rango or kitchen boiler and n special ot .Installations advantago Is clulmcd for it that the where office rooms, ticket selling water Is always hot In tho morning anccs have not beeu started, A number of barber shops nnd five largo hotels heat nil tho water for baths and. lavatories with electric wa ter heaters. Electric Ijilxr Saving Device for (lie Hoiim'IkiIiI. Interurban Trolley Line Being Built in Medford ifflTBM,gi1nrTwiMl kT"' ISSHiiiiKiSliSiillililliBiiBJ Few people reallco the number of olcctrlc labor having devices that have found u place In tho household ami especially In the Western conn-' try, where competent household help' is almost unattainable except ut n fabulous price, and tho huusewlfu welcomes ovury appliance which will make her labors lighter, Tho electric Iron has becomo a household necessity and 00 per cent of tho families using electric light also use an electric Iron, Tho electric vacuum cleaner has revolutionized the methods of keep ing tho houso clean and those of us who remember the old process of cleaning rugs and carpets by hnng ing them over n clothes line In tho back yard and beating them with a; bed slat, marvel at the Jct that the vacuum cleaner was not thought of long ago. Tho latest Improved vacuum clean cr averaging leg than soven pounds and sold at a price within tho reach of nearly every family, draws the j dust from the rugs In place on the ! floor, cleans thoroughly ' curtains, mattresses and floors, has a suction powerful enough to pick up matches nnd other small articles, and best of all the room requires no dusting after its uso. Other labor saving devices aro electric; washing machines for fami lies who do their own laundry, olec-j trie buffing motors for. polishing sll vorware and small electric motors for running churns, Ico cream freez ers, etc. Electric cooking and beating do vices save tho labor of handling fuel land cleaning up tho resultant dirt und ushos. There nro also many elec tric dvlriH fiif imrHnnut nun Hindi us CoHijtrMctjoH crow at Work on Eaht Jlaln fctneet on Southern Oregon Traction Company line, fruiivhiMi for electric curling' iron hoalors, hair 4Uvk te'iul granted Spencer B. Jiiillis of Oltun, N. V.v lust Way. JJao will bo In operation in March iijiU ! Uryors and massugo vlbrutorB, ttJJj'tfiliutHeJJr be MtUadea fur oujfuout too valley. . The Culifornla-Oregon Power Wtn IMMRi V' rE?,'' '.':;mrC 'bm.W ProlWct Power Polo l.lnp pany now has ninety-one miles of distributing lines for supplying tho ranch and orchard district of South ern Orogon, Electricity Is used for milking cows, heating Incubators and brooding young chickens when hatched, There Is ono firm In tho valley do ing a good business manufacturing electric Incubators for sale. through long Hues of plpo to any I height desired Tim Cnllfornla-OrfKOM Power rom pany hns one pumping plant nt Gold liny with it 12 Inih pump, having it capacity of 2.000 gullnus n mlnutu that deliver water through about six miles or pipe linn to mi elurntlnii of 20U fret ubove the pumping plnnt and capMhlo of pumping watnr enough for II.Ooii ncres of land, On tho rompnnys lines in California nro several largo pumping plants, pump ing water from 100 to 300 feet high and sumo of tho plant rnpnblo of pumping water for 10,000 acres of land Mlnellitiiroiin I'iim. r Electric I'owit. Electric motors nro being Used fnr luuumvrahlit power purposes, Includ ing Um operation of quarts mill, quarries and brlrk nrd, pinning mills, box fiirtorliii and Ice plants, and the tlniu Is not far distant when n largo quantity of electric power will be needed for iulcrurbnu. roads In this territory. , Tho California. Oregon Power com pany during the season of 1913ha built over twenty miles of dlstrlbut- ... i lK lines nloiig the county ronds of Ono enterprising poultry rnlserlth,, Hogue Itlwr Valley, supplying brought three hatch I mm of 1,600 iHectrlc current to ram bus, orchards chickens each to maturity In elec- nd country home., the owners of trlcully heated brooderi. with entire which nro quick to r.mlUo that nice success and practically no low of trie current is no longer a luxury, young chicks. ,ltll nurt,MU-( ,, mt jlbof , Tho olectrfc motor is the rancher's uncertain and high priced, every la best assistant. It will saw wood,' bur saving dcvlrn in tint homo and grind feed, pump water, run a churn on tlm ranch liistuiul of being an ux or cream separator, a grindstone or'pouso Is a trim economy. Flume Carrying Water to Drtqi forgo blower and Is always ready for uso twonty-four hours per day. Ono of tho most Important uses of tho electric motor on tho ranch nr orrhnrd fs for pumping wntor for Irrigation. Gravity ditches nro often expen sive to build und keep up nnd In many rimes It Is Impossible to obtiln a Mipply of water by gravity; but tho electric pump can bo' Installed wherever thpro Is a well, spring or email stream, Is easy to Install nnd economical to operate nnd requl.-es practically uo ntteutlnu except to 'opon nnd closo tho switch operating tho motors. In tho Hoguo Hlver Valley about 200 small pumping outfits huvo been Installed, running In size from small outfits, pumping from .a well for household use, to larger outfits cap. ablo of Irrigating twenty to forty acres of orchard. The irrigation problom of tlm foothills will probably lie solved by means of the electric pump; us, given u water supply, tho electric pump will deliver wntor Tho Hun extensions built by thn company In the Itoxuo Hlver Valley In 1U13 cost over 3l),0U(), In addi tion about $2U,0()ll huvo beu spent In Improving tho switching system controlling thn transmission lines and In csho or a defect In tho line at any point thn defective section can bo u once cut out unit sorvlcn sup plied from the plants nearest tho break until the damaged portion of the lino ran bo repnlrd. Tho switches now lining Installed by this company are the outdoor type mounted mi steel towers, this typo having been found to bo tho best for controlling the current used lu long dlstnnco transmission. In 1011 tho company oxpecti to rompleto its largo plant oij tho Kla math rlvor so as to huvo it lu oper ation beforo fall and also contom plates u number of polo lino exten sions In the ranch nnd orchard dis tricts, a special effort being madd to run servlco lines wherever thoro Is a prospect of electric pumping for Irrigation, Southern Pacific $50,000 Deppt in Medford mw,Aj. :t m j. .-.jy.'i. , .. .,. - - : ,,-. . r. ... - . ' Mm ' ';'K; v . vy ""W'flaeSKtrT mimmmLmu" jmmm ?r.-rt?i4mKmhi .rAwmttL:7to mimmmmmmm' ' - ,r, -mmt WSSSPa! wj' v;? 'h$ .-di" wjr AJ
