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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (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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sent time. .\fter exploriuK llu- ilaiii. wlicrcofIhc phciliit^iaiihcr wlui accompaniediiic IdoU Mian\ piilniover lo Ihc mirlh nf llic lake and hikedover Ihc mcUs In Ihc north spillway.As a mallei- of facl. Ilii-rc arc Iwn spillways on the north, one muchsmaller than the other, and togetherthey turn that north shore into analmost sylvan scene, for the waterfrom each comes tumbling down inan irregular rocky course through athick wood. You feel like sitting onthe rocks and eating lunch and smok-ing and letting your thoughts wanderas the water rushes past your feet.The spectacle is entirely different, ofcourse, to that at the main dam. Itis less grand, per-haps, but it seems toyou that in propor-tion to their size thelittle spillways makemore fuss than thebig one. As you leaveSpaulding and fol-low the course ofDrum canal you findeverything in ship-shape order. Thecanal is working Ida cauacilv of about itt rrciiii ^ilplioil(lliiK (liiiii IntoI iiilukr r old Pacific Service Magazine
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200 cubic feet persecond, and the fore-bay at the end is nowa handsome sheet ofwater of about 400acre-feet capacity.The huge pipe thatkads therefrom overIhe hill and down toIhe 137o-foot steep tothe power-house iswell in place, and inthe gorge below thewhir of the genera-tors is unceasing asthey grind out theelectric juice thatstarts from there up-on its 110-mile jour-ney to the shores ofSan l-rancisco Bay,;iver the wires thatare strttched betweensteel towers that takea bee-line over thehill on the otlier sideof Bear Hiver. The Big Job hasmade good all alongthe line from Spauld-ing to Cordelia, fromthe peaks of the Si-erra Nevada to thebay of San Francisco.Tliere is not on recorda hitch in its opera-tion. Reservoir, dam,tunnel, canal, fore-l)a\, i)enstock, power-house, transmissionline, each has playedits i)arl to the full ex-pected of it. I or those whowould like to knowsomething about thedales of jjrogress, Iwill mention that therecords show that onOctober M last. LakeSpaulding dam

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