. Electrical world. ^^^^ FIG. I.—^L VIEW .\T THE FALLS. aract Company. These two companies owned the franchises andthe right to sell Snoqualmie power in the two cities, owned the large and handsome sub-stations at these pointsand the distribution systems throughout the cities, and they marketedthe product of the generating plants. There has been an unprecedented demand for the power generatedby the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company. Indeed, this from the viewpoint of the electrical engineer and of the financier,has been an unqualified success. The companys gr
. Electrical world. ^^^^ FIG. I.—^L VIEW .\T THE FALLS. aract Company. These two companies owned the franchises andthe right to sell Snoqualmie power in the two cities, owned the large and handsome sub-stations at these pointsand the distribution systems throughout the cities, and they marketedthe product of the generating plants. There has been an unprecedented demand for the power generatedby the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company. Indeed, this from the viewpoint of the electrical engineer and of the financier,has been an unqualified success. The companys gross earnings have. people between Seattle and Tacoma yearly, and to the Seattle &Renton Railway Company, which carries 1,140,000 passengers an-nually. To mention divers uses, this power grinds 9,000 bushels of wheata day at the Centennial Mill and 2,200 bushels at the Hammond Mill,both of which plants are located in Seattle, treats 650 tons of ore aday at the Tacoma Smelter, and runs dentists burrs in Seattle andTacoma. It furnishes power for the Washington Iron Works Com-pany, the largest industry of this sort in the Pacific Northwest, andfor the Metropolitan Press, of Seattle, which prints most of thepapers and periodicals published in this part of the country. Itgrinds spices and roasts coffee for the Crescent Manufacturing Com-pany, and is the motive force of the Washington Shoe Company,which sends its products all through the Northwest and other large users of power are the Seattle Electric Laundry,the flour and feed mill, operated by Lehman Bros, in Seattle, and theTacoma Mill an
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