. Journal of electricity . Captain H. F. Jackson, general manager of the Great WesternPower Company, is standing at the right, while S. L. ShufFleton,western manager of the Stone and Wehster Company, in charge ofbuilding the Caribou plant, tells Gaskell S. Jacobs, engineer withthe California Railroad Commission, of the progress of the Mr. Jacobs left is R. C. Starr, chief construction engineer ofthe San Joaquin Light & Power Corporation, who has just com-pleted the companys Kerckhoff installation. The spillway of Lake Almanor of the Great Western Power Com-pany. Note the great bodies o
. Journal of electricity . Captain H. F. Jackson, general manager of the Great WesternPower Company, is standing at the right, while S. L. ShufFleton,western manager of the Stone and Wehster Company, in charge ofbuilding the Caribou plant, tells Gaskell S. Jacobs, engineer withthe California Railroad Commission, of the progress of the Mr. Jacobs left is R. C. Starr, chief construction engineer ofthe San Joaquin Light & Power Corporation, who has just com-pleted the companys Kerckhoff installation. The spillway of Lake Almanor of the Great Western Power Com-pany. Note the great bodies of water ten miles in length abovethis spillway, all being conserved for power purposes and the driv-ing of industries hundreds of miles away. This lake with its300,000 acre-feet of storage is at present the largest artificial reser-voir in California. Its ultimate capacity of 1,250,000 acre-feet willexceed that impounded by the Assouan Dam of Egypt, thus far thegreatest in the James Byers Black, general salesmanager of the Great WesternPower Company, has that self-satisfied smile as he notes thesign above, No Passengers Al-lowed to Ride on This Incline,for he knows whether they rideor not everyone will be carriedaway by the scenery, and by theTastness of the enterprise whichhe is showing them. The two oldest inhabitants onthe job. J. M. Howells, chiefconsulting engineer of the GreatWestern Power Company, whowas the original discoverer ofthe great series of projects ofthe Great Western Power Com-pany, including Lake Almanor,and with him, to his left, isC. B. Goon ,an old-time employeof the same company. H. A. Mangold, on the left,superintendent of power houseconstruction of the Great West-em Power Company, and R. , chief construction engi-neer of the San Joaquin Light& Power Corporation, felicitateeach other on the work in whichthey are engaged—the installa-tion of great power plants inthe West. O. W. Peterson, chief field en-gineer for the Shat
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