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MDFORD MATT, TRTBUNE, MEDFOttD. OREGON. THURSDAY. .TANUATCY 1, inM.
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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
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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
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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-
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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,
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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
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Interurban Trolley Line Being Built in Medford
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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
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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
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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
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