. Electrical world. minute car service is given over this terri-tory. This is also the northern terminal of the Rapid Railway system,which runs cars hourly from Detroit, Mich. These cars are inter-urban type with 300 hp in motors installed under them. The PortHuron Light & Power Company furnishes power to the city railway,which operates in the neighborhood of twelve to fifteen cars per also furnishes power for the Rapid Railway system in the city,and about one-half mile outside of the city limits. Taken company is covering the light and power field very fully, as canbe j
. Electrical world. minute car service is given over this terri-tory. This is also the northern terminal of the Rapid Railway system,which runs cars hourly from Detroit, Mich. These cars are inter-urban type with 300 hp in motors installed under them. The PortHuron Light & Power Company furnishes power to the city railway,which operates in the neighborhood of twelve to fifteen cars per also furnishes power for the Rapid Railway system in the city,and about one-half mile outside of the city limits. Taken company is covering the light and power field very fully, as canbe judged from the foregoing. The light and power business in Port Huron was started by theExcelsior Electric Company in 1885. The old plant of this companywas burned twice, as a result of which experience the present stationis entirely fire-proof. In June, 1901, the company was reorganizedunder the name of the Port Huron Light & Power Company, atwhich time a thirty-year franchise was obtained from the city. The. Fig. I.—General View of Curtis Horizontal Turbine, Port Huron, Mich. great international tunnel of the Grand Trunk Railway from PortHuron on the American side to Sarnia, on the Canadian side of theriver. Among other industries is a shipbuilding yard, employingabout 500 men. The whole yard is operated by electric motors, somesixteen in number, with current supplied by the Port Huron Light& Power Company. A traction engine and farm machine factory,together with a malleable iron factory, and a saw factory, employing600 men, operate their plants with three-phase induction motors,ranging from yy2 to 75 hp. There are a number of other importantindustries, including the locomotive and car building shops of theGrand Trunk Railway. Gratiot, Huronia, La Salle and Keew-ahdinBeaches are large summer resorts just beyond the city limits, wheremany Southern people make their homes during the summer company furnishes light to about 100 cottages on these , too, Po
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