. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . A Section of Rapid-Flume from Lake Franccr m .-/?j ?^ ^ --i^H ? ?tjR . 7 -^^caM H^\^^H|^H ^^^^H^ ^^^ijps Inverted Syphon carrying Browns \alley Ditchacross Canyon below Vuba Power Tlie Stave Pipe-Line from Lake Frances to Colgate. Clearing tlie Ground for Vuba Power Plant cqiii\-alent to a square tract of country a little morethan twenty-three miles on each of its sides. i!ut to make sure of constant water power forthe Colgate plant, to guard against any unforseensubsidence in the rivers flow above the dam oragainst any accident to that long,
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . A Section of Rapid-Flume from Lake Franccr m .-/?j ?^ ^ --i^H ? ?tjR . 7 -^^caM H^\^^H|^H ^^^^H^ ^^^ijps Inverted Syphon carrying Browns \alley Ditchacross Canyon below Vuba Power Tlie Stave Pipe-Line from Lake Frances to Colgate. Clearing tlie Ground for Vuba Power Plant cqiii\-alent to a square tract of country a little morethan twenty-three miles on each of its sides. i!ut to make sure of constant water power forthe Colgate plant, to guard against any unforseensubsidence in the rivers flow above the dam oragainst any accident to that long, wooden flume—through breakage, landslides, snovvslides, or forestfires—there is an artificial lake up between the ridges,off to the left, two miles and a half behind the powerplant, and three hundred and eighty-two feet eleva-tion above the top of those five big pipe-lines thatcome down the ridge to shoot water against thewheels. It is called Lake Frances, and it covers an area of one hundred and five acres and holds 92,870,000cubic feet of water all the year round. It is as largeas about fifteen city blocks. During the rainy seasonit catches the water drainage from the minor sur-rounding slopes, but its principal sour
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