. The Street railway journal . Laguna St. ELEVATIONS OF NORTH BEACH POWER STATION-SAN FRANCISCO fact that the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast districts havebeen fortunate in possessing many sources of water power,which needed only the application of electricity to becomeavailable for industrial purposes. Among other street railway companies which are now adopt-ing high-tension alternating-current central stations are theUnited Railroads of San Francisco. About a year ago the Market Street Railway Company, theSan Francisco & San Mateo Railway Company, the SutterStreet Railway Compa
. The Street railway journal . Laguna St. ELEVATIONS OF NORTH BEACH POWER STATION-SAN FRANCISCO fact that the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast districts havebeen fortunate in possessing many sources of water power,which needed only the application of electricity to becomeavailable for industrial purposes. Among other street railway companies which are now adopt-ing high-tension alternating-current central stations are theUnited Railroads of San Francisco. About a year ago the Market Street Railway Company, theSan Francisco & San Mateo Railway Company, the SutterStreet Railway Company, and the Sutro Electric Railway Com-pany were consolidated, and the combined company has takenthe name of the United Railroads of San Francisco. Beforethe consolidation took place it had already become apparent tothe Market Street Railway Company, which was the largest ofthe above-mentioned systems, that more power was needed inorder to give the city of San Francisco a good street railwayservice. After the consolidation the need of a large ce
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