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Identifier: pacificgaselectr41913paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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een the prosperous homesof orchardists and farmers, with trees andvines bearing the fruit that the Eastern mar-ket demands. Up in the high Sierras thesnow is packed and frozen and, in many in-stances, fills the deep, rocky canyons, and ifDame Nature were left to her own devicesthe snow waters would in due course con-tribute to a Spring freshet, raising the riversto a point which would threaten the leveesand, with them, the lives of many inhabi-tants. But man in his ingenuity picks upthis snow in its watery form, together withthe flood waters conserved in the artificiallakes, to be drawn upon at will during thelong hot and dry months of the year, con-ducted through the canal system into thepower-house reservoirs and thence to thegenerators in the power-houses themselves.This convertible power makes electricity,and the danger of the Spring freshet isaverted. Ultimately, as a result of this storage ofwater, the State of California will not onlybenefit by the generation of electricity and
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One of the four steam-shovels at work269

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