. Journal of electricity . icularly capable and whom weplanned to make a permanent part of our organiza-tion, in the course of a month tendered his resigna-tion. By stealthy methods we learned that his rea-sons for leaving were based upon his theory that thePower Transit & Light Company were barely get-ting by with their old pay roll, and that we wereall certain to go to the wall with the additionsthat we had made to it. In the following two years we expended in Kerncounty more than two and a half million dollars, andwere taking in from the oil fields and pump irriga-tion that the old company
. Journal of electricity . icularly capable and whom weplanned to make a permanent part of our organiza-tion, in the course of a month tendered his resigna-tion. By stealthy methods we learned that his rea-sons for leaving were based upon his theory that thePower Transit & Light Company were barely get-ting by with their old pay roll, and that we wereall certain to go to the wall with the additionsthat we had made to it. In the following two years we expended in Kerncounty more than two and a half million dollars, andwere taking in from the oil fields and pump irriga-tion that the old company had never attempted todevelop, more money than the total plant was earn-ing when we bought it. A gas line was built somefifty miles to tap a natural supply from the MidwayOil Fields, and we spent as much more money in theextension of the gas works as the old company hadinvested in it, increased the number of consumers totwenty times what they were selling, notwithstand-ing that we reduced the price to one-third of what. Mountain ix)le line from old San Joaquin Plant No. 1 to Fresno, adistance of 35 miles. At the time it was built this was considered thelongest high tension line in existence. It carried two 30,000-volt linesand a service telephone line. H. J. GILLE, sales manager, Puget Sound Power & LightCompany — Standardization is a good thing but it should not bepermitted to impede progress nor unduly affect economy. —Northwest Electric Light and Power Association. 324 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY [Vol. 45—No. 7 they were getting. We also double-tracked andpaved the street railway and provided it with moderncars, thereby increasing the service as well as theincome. Pioneering in the Agricultural Districts Merced was equipped with a hydro plant atMerced Falls, with a capacity of 350 hp. when theriver was up and 100 hp. when the river was was backed by a 225-hp. steam generator, locatedin Merced, to help out in the low water season, butin a short time we extended our 33
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