Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ab-lished power company with a system that would be acredit to any community. They have spent moneyliberally to provide for future requirements as well aspresent perfection. Their lines reach out into thesurrounding country for something like fifty miles inthree different directions, and across the ColumbiaRiver to the city of Vancouver, Washington. This company has several good water power andsteam power plants all tied in together, the best ofwhich are as follows: Plants of the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company. Steam Stations—6000 kw. located
Journal of electricity, power, and gas . ab-lished power company with a system that would be acredit to any community. They have spent moneyliberally to provide for future requirements as well aspresent perfection. Their lines reach out into thesurrounding country for something like fifty miles inthree different directions, and across the ColumbiaRiver to the city of Vancouver, Washington. This company has several good water power andsteam power plants all tied in together, the best ofwhich are as follows: Plants of the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company. Steam Stations—6000 kw. located near the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Mill, kw. the Peninsula Lumber Co., St. Johns. 12500 kw. the Eastern & Western Lum. Co., Portland. 950 kw. at Salem, Oregon. Water Power—14250 kw. located at kw. River Mill. 7230 kw. Oregon kw. Bull ;5 The total installed capacity is given as 66,580 making their developments at River Mill and atBull Run the Portland Railway, Light & Power Com-. Station B, at Oregon City. pany also provided for some future extensions so thatwhen the time came to expand they would have onlythe turbines and generators to purchase. This en-ables them to enlarge River Mill to the extent of6600, and Bull Run 3375 kw. at minimum expense andin short time when needed. One of the biggest demands on the service of thePortland Railway, Light & Power Company is madeby the electric railways running out of Portland inevery direction. The longest extension so far is thatof the Oregon Electric Railway Company to Eugene,123 miles south. The Portland, Eugene & Eastern isalso opening its line to Eugene, and several otherlinks of what will some day be a great system through-out the Willamette Valley. Regardless of the great abundance of power be-hind a long distance transmission line it seems fromexperience that in railway work the lines must notbe made too long, or if of any great length, they mustbe backed up by steam plants at
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