Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . cking the ridge, andat a hearing in the Yolo court it wasordered that the sacks be removed, andthat the ridge be cut down to its naturalheight. The ridge was cut at a pointwhere a new canal is being dug to drainthe flood water into the Yolo basin at apoint below district No. 730. After asmall gap had been cut in the dam theswift current did the rest, and an open-ing over a hundred feet wide allowedthe water to rush into the district all, there is over a hundred thousandacres of land under water. This water added considerably to ourtrouhlcs. We had a
Pacific Gas and Electric magazine . cking the ridge, andat a hearing in the Yolo court it wasordered that the sacks be removed, andthat the ridge be cut down to its naturalheight. The ridge was cut at a pointwhere a new canal is being dug to drainthe flood water into the Yolo basin at apoint below district No. 730. After asmall gap had been cut in the dam theswift current did the rest, and an open-ing over a hundred feet wide allowedthe water to rush into the district all, there is over a hundred thousandacres of land under water. This water added considerably to ourtrouhlcs. We had a good many poles togii\ and brace, and a new piece of lineId he completed in district No. 730. Someof these poles were in very swift cur-rent, and the work was done with con-sideral)le difliculty. The machinery indistiici No. 730 pumii-house had to beraised to keep it out of the water, andthe crew that did Ibis had to work inwatci, and during a greater part of onenight, to keep ahead of the rising Hood. 340 Pacific Service Magazine. Views of Electra. Reading(2) the Petty reservoii the forebay to the power-house top to bottom, left to right, these are: (11 Lake Tabeaud;general view of Electra; |4» the tramway-line from interior of the power-house. Pacific Service Magazine 341 The Story of Electra, Recalled to Memory by the Recent Destruction of the Famous Boarding-House By RANDALL ELLIS The companys boarding-house at Electra, generally regarded as the model boarding-house of the entire system, was destroyed by fire on the morning of November 11th last. The disaster came without warning. About a. m. smoke was noticed issuingfrom the ventilator of the boarding-house and the alarm was spread to everyone incamp. Everyone, except the operators on duty, was on the scene as quickly as possible,but the fire had gained such headway before being noticed that it was impossible to getat the fire-ftghting apparatus inside the building upstairs. Monitors and three lines ofhose were play
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