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> I 0 Lib CASCADE LOCKS CHRONICLE and The Bonneville Dam Chronicle Vol. \ 1. No. t VSf \m n I tH'KS n o n \ . j » i \ >. mis HON NI \ II I I Locks Becomes First Permanent Power Customer Approve Plans For Second Power Line I Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has approved plans recently submitted by Frank A. Banks, act ing administrator of Bonneville, for a second transmission line con necting Bonneville a n d Grand Coulee power plants by way of Tacoma and Seattle instead of paralleling the first Bonneville- Coulee circuit. Course I.aid Out SALMON Kl N TR IPLE S Migration of chinook salmon over Bonneville dam. fairly heavy through early July, triplet! during the week ending July X. according to state fish commission figures released Wednesday. Count of Chinooks ascending the dam leaned from 346 on Jtiiv S to 1008 on July 14. the figures showed. The increase was steady throughout the week. Steelhead migration over the dam also jumped sharply during the week, from 381 fish on July 8 to 1207 on July 14 Bluebaek mi- gration. which has been declining for some weeks, dropped from 2089 fish on July 8 to 1959 on July 1 1. Although the main bluehack run passed upstream early thi - month, ine Bonneville count has held up surprisingly well, in the opinion of fishermen. The new 220,000-volt line, to cost approximately $.1,000.000. would take o ff from the 220,000-volt cir cuit already approved to near Che- halis and would follow a northerly direction, passing east of Tacoma and Seattle, then turn east, cross-1 ing the Cascades through one of | several available passes to make a I second connection with the Grand | Coulee plant. I ’ nder its temporary contract Part of the so-called master plan for a federal power grid ultimately with Northwestern Electric com connecting all important power pany. which has been extended systems of the Pacific Northwest, from.time to time, and its contract the o h a n g e d Bonneville-Grami with the city of Cascade Locks, the Coulee line program would have Bonneville administration has been selling an average of 22,000 kilo the following advantages: watts. approximately 30,000 horse power, it was learned from Acting To Safeguard Tie-in Administrator Frank A. Hanks 1. Safeguard the tie-in of the Saturday. two great federal power plants by This represents a marked in providing two separate circuits in crease in Bonneville power sales stead of placing all eggs in one and was worked out with North basket through parallel lines. western to take care of a tempor 2. Permit Bonneville, and later ary low water period. Grand Coulce. to serve :i wider Northwestern shares this power range of consumers by tapping five more Washington counties that are with Portland General Electric company which is negotiating a organized as P.U.D.s. 3. Permit standby tie-ins with much larger separate contract with Seattle City Light and Tacoma Bonneville. The Northwestern contract, on a City Light systems and with the temporary and experimental basis, municipal system at Kllensburg. 4. Contribute to the national de will permit Bonneville and the two private companies to try out inter fense. Banks pointed out that while n connection of systems as well as severe sleet storm or other disaster | conserve water at Ariel dam and might put both Bonneville-Couler I save «»iterating steam plants with circuits out of commission if they i oil. I ’ nder the original contract with were paralleled on the present right-of-way, it is highly unlikely Northwestern, Bonneville was de livering from 2500 to 5000 kilo- thiit both lines would out simul- ; I1 ,'**1.1 I'nder the new temporary t a neons 1 y if they were separated ’* as under the new construction plan. agreement this amount has been I stepped up gradually since June I until it reached a peak of more ! than 25,000 kilowatts 1 ast week, averaging about 22.000 until the week-end when it dropped to about 18.000. Power Sales Grow Rapidly Power Surveys To Cost Half a Million ♦ The Bonneville administ rat ion AVedne' -dav announced that approx- iiri*«»l\ $'>00.000 will lx* spent dur- ing thr current fiscal year on sur- veys fo r new lines which eventual!;- " i l l provide a power network of 1400 miles of high-tension trans mission extending to all major popolateli areas of the Pacific northwest. Approximately 800 miles of futuri' transmissi on lines will lx* surveyed during the year. The project already h a s completed nearly 000 miles o • Circuit on Slate The principal survey will lx- for n 220,000-volt circuit to Grand < >ule< via Puget sound, announced last week. This line will be about 290 mile« long, the longest high- voltage. alternating current line in the I ’ nited State«. A projected 90-mile line from Bonneville's Midway «ubstation in the h* art f the Yakima valley, to Paso. 1'matilla and Pendleton, wull be surveyed. » IMS OBI II I I \».l I I N.Itn S sK \ t i n c p u m in p o r t i \ n d The Epworth lenii ue, about 15 strong, journ«yed to 1 1 >rtlaiui Moo day evening for an e\< ning of skat- ing at the Oaks Pai k. Th«- trip was made in a new bu s brought out especially by the II ibert- Motor Co. for the occasion, and aecom- panying the children were Mr. mid Mrs. Hank Julius. the president of the League, Howard Harrison. The children reported a grand time and some of the younger ones were I pretty sleepy on the return trip. Grange To Hold Picnic ♦ AH Grangers in H (M M i River < »unty have lx-, n invited to the annual Grange picnic, to be held next Sunday at Eagle Creek. It will be an all-day affair, games and hikes l>eing scheduled for the morning, and dinner will be serv««i at 12:30. Arrangements are in charge of Ralph W. Perry, Hood River County Pomona Master. A f is h in g t r ip t o u g h group inspection of Bonneville Dam Mr and Mr« Vernon Goetz. Don will be a feature of the afternoon ald Goetz of Portland and Weldon pr »gram. Hyde motored to Wahtum I-ake for some fishing over the week-end and RETURN FROM IDAHO to return by way of the Went Fork of Herman Creek They planned Mr and Mrs J J Miestrell ami on a short cut over the hills and son. Marvin, returned home Satur- ' after 4 hours of wandering, found *lay from a several week» trip to their destination and had to spend Eastern Oregon and to Nampa. m<wt of Monday recuperating Boise, and Pondosa, Idaho, where j Mr» Goetz drove the car home for they visited relatives of both their them families -f ( (INSIDER iw e r f i c m If the Canhy city council ap- j>r«>\«*.s a plan proposed bv J«>hn! Eni. city treaso" . for the last 17 j years, that municipality will lw tax free. Eid has suggest«*«! th«': city divert I4 lv per cent of its I gross power and water receipts in lieu of taxes, this t«> tak« ear«' of operating expen»« p«>li«*< an«! fire] At 10:30 p in on Tuesday night A $700.00(4 allotment to Unite«! pr«>t«*etion ami all «•«>.«(» 1 the City Light of Cascade l.«x-ks States army «'iigini'«*rs t«> «'ontiini«1 cut in on H«>nneville power. The Treasurer Eid point* out that the work «>n the Bonneville powe: house for th«- next fiscal year was re- gross profit for th;» year amount«»«!! connection was made upder the ceivod this week, it was announce«! t<> $1722.77. The 14*v per cent «»f , «lirection of Jack Jiduff of th«- Bon by Major Thenm D. Weaver, **n- the total collection* aggregat«»«! neville Project and t'h«'ss Brazil, ginecr in charge >>f th«' Bonneville $832.66. which, when subtract«'«! t'it\ Light Superintend«»nt. L«*«> district of the North Pacific divi from the gross profit, still left Murray and his crew «»f project etc«'trie inns «lui the work which Canhy a net profit «»f $890.11. sion. The c«>uiu*i!im».i are studying me ".•ni through without a hitoh. Added to the $13.400,000 allotted nroposal and may take action at a The «'By council, and manager t<> the Bonneville administration later date, .Mayor J K Ymyaid appreciate greatly the aid and f«>r transmission lines hii «I substa tin t!. assistance of the project men in tions, it brings the total Bonneville getting the connection made. const ruction program for 1939-40 Lloytl Mallord, former Cascade to $20,400.000, not including river 1 oeks resi«l«*nt and recently with and harbor funds for Columbia th«' Bonneville Project, has been river channel work in the Bonne- hired ii* Imokkceper f«»r the new Engineer Nam ed \ die dam area. company and for th«' past s«»v«*ral The $7,000,000 allotment will • day ha b«*«*n "o ik in g with \ L. H«»race E. Bixby, prominent Samlberg of th«' Bonneville Proj«*et, make possible: Completion of the powerhouse superstructure f o r electrical engineer «>f lh«‘ north in th«1 setting up of the hooka for units 3 to 0, now being built by west. Momlay was appointed head the new concern. It is expected the L. 11. Hoffman contracting electrical engineer of the Bonne that within a week Mayor Man ville project by Frank A Banks, cheater " i l l issue in ('«injunction company, $800,0(10. Manufacture ami installation of acting administrator. He will be with the council a statement of turbines, generators, etc., for units m charge of power sales and will policy of the ih ' w concern. All past and presimi light bills 3 and 4, also under contract, I have supervision of contracts with 1 ilistricts, utilities, municipalities of the West ('«»ast Power Company $2,600,000. 1 and industries. Starting of foundations or the I Mr. Bixby has served as power are t«> !>«■ paid at the city hull in substructure for units 7 to 10, an I superintendent of tb«> Flathead in Cascati«' Locks. extension of the powerhouse onto I irrigation project in Montana since Bradford island. $1.600,000. Ì193I, and prior to that time was Starting manufacture of genera .power engineer for the Portland tors and turbines for units 5 ami : Generili Electric company. 6, approximately $2,000,000. He was an electrician for the Approximately $54,000,000 has Santa Ec railway in 1908, ami The possibility «>f the prop«iaed been spent on Bonneville dam and later taught electrical engineering powerhiuse by army engineers to at the University of Pennsylvania. Hood River Public Utility District «late, the ultimate cost of the 10 He was in the United States re having only one b'gally <|iiulifi«*d generator plants being $75,000,000 clamation service from 1912 to director loomed as a possibility Tin; new generators are 5I,<>00 kilo 1917, and operated an engine«»ring this week if tin* Hydroelectric Com watts, considerably larger than and contracting firm in Idaho. mission approves the formation of present units I and 2 which are the district. 43,200 kilowatts each. I M M ILL \ CONSIDER M ION Although nothing is official, it POSTPONED in CONGRESS i* presumed that Dirmtors Shurt- IN E LECTRIC AL 111 SI NESS In this week’s Chronicle is (h«‘ The construction <>f tin- Umatilla liff and Johnson will lie disqualified announcement of C. (). Bennett of navigation dam an«l work on other as they were both residents of the Cascade l,ocks that he is in the Northwest projects totaling $27,- city and the city vot«><| down the electrical wiring business in the 363,non were postponed at b'iist proposal. It is thought thut Dir Cascade l/ocks-Bonneville Ari'ii. 'until the January session of Con- ectors Munroe and Perry will I m < As far as can be ascertained, gr«'ss Tuesday wlu'ii the senate disqualified since both of them ar«< Hcnm'tt is tb«' only licensed one commerce comniittc«' sidetracked drawing taxpayers' money at the available for house wiring in th«* the $107,855,600 omnibus appro present time and therefor cannot area. priations bill for rivers und harbors. draw it from two sources. Perry Twelve projects in th«' north D \DDY SOI'NIIS T HE \LARM Pacific division recominen«l*»d to is drawing a wage as commission e r and Mrs. Munroe as state rep- The fir«' sir«‘n sounded at 3:00 congress by the hoard of army i «'sentative. engineers were affected by the a. m. Tuesday morning in C.as- No ruling lots h«*n forthcoming « oinmittee’s action. rade l.m I«'. Th«* volunteer fire Largest. they .»id, wa the $23. from the Hydro«'led ru Cotnmis- department rolled out of bed, to- 700.000 1'matilla dam on the Co »i*• n on th«' proposed district and g*'fh«*r with hall the populace of lumbia river, which had !>«•« n left the quest i«m of just whi* is and who (he town. To the fire station *ut of th«' • appi ••print ion* i isii t a «lirector will not come up they racial. h but "II *r inserted by n I until th e district is approved. emit « hou* • committee I* « r ., much lo their dismay Ih< Commission will probably Other pr« bsally affei'ted, and chagrin, was one of the C o lu m b ia river, m*t reach a decision until aft«'r the ngineers i town's lathers who had sounded h»i> turning i in front ot the «»lection in Th«1 Dulles on August 16. the fire alarm in order to locate "«■ k at t ’ Wash., $15,noti, ' he cit y marshal to help in lo ml turning i and harbor for POR I Bil l IN SI N M i: cal in-.: his daughter who was out mall boats 1 Arlington, Or«'. A disput« h from Washington with a < < < I mix and had not re lat«** that ili«' Iloti»«* of (lepre turned. ODD I I I I OUS Pl, \N Pit NIC sentative*' militili y uffuirs cobi Officer Merrill appeared and mitt«*e calhil .« lo-iiring last Thurs- The annual picnic of the IL mm I day on th«* McNary Itili to transfer th«* sleepy populace r«*tir«*d to River County Odd Follow* ha* been filli* of fhe old l.«M'ks proprrty from b«*d. The young lady and her es heduli'd for Sunday, August 13, thè War Department t«> th** Port of cort appt and at horrn* two hours according to P. (!, Perkins, chair < h scade Lo« k* f«>r park and dock later. man, and M. L. Morgan, vice- punto» es. Lh«* honorable city marshal • hairman. The picnic, held in re- No repwrt «if tbi* hearing ha.» stat«*s that th«* sounding of the . r»t y« ar- at latann ( amp, will this Iteen sent out as vet from Wash siren is not th«* proper manner to ington The bill ha* alreiuly locate him He may be reach«*d year take place on the government passed th«* Senute un«ler thè guid grounds at t 'ascaile C « -ks. by th«* telephone operator at any ance of Henator Rufus Holman It i- the plan to make the occa time, lie further states that he has a phone in his home and a sion conform to the “ old tim**’’ BRI SII Eliti: EX I INt.l ISIIED radio in his car which keeps him picnics, with contests, races an«i A carelrssly «liscarded «'igarette in touch with the public. starteli a hrush fin* along th«» ( ’<>- liiinhin Riv«*r llighway ju«t west of fhe Honneville Seh«w>lhouse Momlay West Coast Company’s Lines Obtained Bonneville Dam Gets More Cash New Power May Disqualify P.U.D. Directors n N O T IC E I o «ill clean«. liqht consumers formerly purchasing power from the West Coast Power Company I he City of Cascade L x ks has acquired the property and accounts of the W e d Coast Power Company and henceforth all electric bills are payable at the City Hall in Cascade Locks. G E MANCHESTER. Mayor. Mi m < ollins, telephon«' operator at B«>n ne «Alle, repnrted thè fire lo Foresi Ranger Allwrt Wirsendanger st Eagle Creek Korest t’amp, whn «piickly exting«iishe<| it. Ai t IDE NT IH M YSTERY Ed Hogen*on ha* been confine«! to the Hood River hospital th«* past week. Ile was rutting wood in the shed and was found ther«* un«*on- srious, an«l hasn’t r«*gaine«| en>>*igh con»« iousness U> tell yet what hap pened ami the dortors haven’t been able to determine what caused the trouble.