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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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here the air is the purest and station far up in the snowsheds, wellthe fragrance of the mountains the sweet- known to Pacific Service employees,est; where visitors can come with their We start immediately for Spaulding, aautomobiles, set up camp and enjoy two-mile hike on skis, with snow prob-hunting, fishing, rest and recreation to ably ten feet deep. The day may be dark,the utmost. with wind and snow and sleet blowingThe winter, however, presents an en- from all angles and piling up at thetirely different scene. The scene is more rate of half a foot an hour, or it may bebeautiful perhaps, the air far more crisp, clear and cold with a sharp north windbut the method of getting around very and crust on the snow. To the novicemuch different. One does not think of the trip would be hard indeed, but forgoing in an automobile at this time. This the strong, experienced veterans of Pa-would be impossible, for in the middle cific Service whose duty it is to main- 368 Pacific Service Magazine
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Drum penstock looking toward the forebay. Note camp buildings on the left. Four feet of snow. tain service at all costs, these things aremerely a part of the days work. When we think of Spaulding our firstreflection is, of course, of the lake, thefather of all the lakes of Pacific Serv-ice on the South Yuba System; but wemust not forget that down in the canyonbeneath the dam, hidden under the hugerock cliffs, is a power plant built in thesolid rock wall of the mountainside,which contributes its part toward thesystem and from which is built up theperpendicular slope a 60,000-volt lineknown as the Alta-Spaulding 60 K. V.,which must be patrolled and maintainedin the severest weather. Some months ago many of our friends,no doubt, read a short item in the news-papers concerning the deep-sea diverwho had been sent to Lake Spaulding by the company to go down and investigateconditions at the entrance to the out-let tunnel which seemed to be cloggedwith debris. The diver came, riggedup his app

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