. Cassier's magazine. T OF THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE COMPANY SEE PAGE 263 Cassiers Magazine Vol. XXVII JANUARY, 190; No. 3 PIONEER WORK IN HIGH-TENSION ELECTRICPOWER TRANSMISSION THE OPERATIONS OF THE TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY By P. N. Nurm In the light of present achievements in high-tension, long-distance electric power transmission, theearly work of the Telluride Power Company, fourteen years ago, and further developed in the immediatelysucceeding years, commands unqualified admiration. It was work of daring enterprise, pioneer work inthe face of discouraging comment
. Cassier's magazine. T OF THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE COMPANY SEE PAGE 263 Cassiers Magazine Vol. XXVII JANUARY, 190; No. 3 PIONEER WORK IN HIGH-TENSION ELECTRICPOWER TRANSMISSION THE OPERATIONS OF THE TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY By P. N. Nurm In the light of present achievements in high-tension, long-distance electric power transmission, theearly work of the Telluride Power Company, fourteen years ago, and further developed in the immediatelysucceeding years, commands unqualified admiration. It was work of daring enterprise, pioneer work inthe face of discouraging comment from almost everywhere, making its successful outcome all the moregratifying to those who undertook it, and interesting to the profession generally. Mr. Nunns account ofit was given for the first time in a paper presented at the recent International Electrical Congress atSt. Louis, and its publication here, embellished by many additional illustrations, has been made possiblethrough his kind co-operation.—The THE ORIGINAL POWER HOUSE AT AMES, 1S9O D URING the winter of 1890, theyear preceding the famousFrankfort-Lauff en experiment,apparatus was installed for the first com-mercial, high-pressure, alternating-cur-rent power transmission of the that beginning has grown theTelluride Power Company. The mining district surrounding Tel-luride, Colorado, is at the same timeone of the most rugged and one of the richest in the Rocky Mountains; butits inaccessibility and the consequentcost of producing power caused thefinancial failure of many important en-terprises in the early days of its statement made in the annual reportof the Treasury of the United States, in1901,* that for the growth of its min-ing industry San Miguel County is in-debted to the Telluride Power Trans-mission Company more than to anyother agency, is borne out by the factthat at the present time all the importantmines and mills of the district are oper-ated by power furnished by this
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