Bay County past and present . Five Channels Dam Along the courseof this stream,through Ioscocounty, there arethree huge damstogether with largegenerating plantswhere electricalcurrent is genera-ted twenty-fourhours daily by theConsumers Power thousand kilo-wats, representing twenty-seven thousand horse power,are generated at 2500 is then passed throughtransformers and steppedup to 140,000 volts. Inthis form the current can betransmitted over a radius oftwo hundred miles. Onreaching a distributingpoint, the voltage is reducedto 23 00 volts for use. To give an idea o

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Bay County past and present . Five Channels Dam Along the courseof this stream,through Ioscocounty, there arethree huge damstogether with largegenerating plantswhere electricalcurrent is genera-ted twenty-fourhours daily by theConsumers Power thousand kilo-wats, representing twenty-seven thousand horse power,are generated at 2500 is then passed throughtransformers and steppedup to 140,000 volts. Inthis form the current can betransmitted over a radius oftwo hundred miles. Onreaching a distributingpoint, the voltage is reducedto 23 00 volts for use. To give an idea of the wide extentto which the Iosco county-AuSableriver product is put, one needs but listthe towns which are served, and theyare as follows: Oscoda, East Tawas,.

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