Show IJ I ELECTRICITY TO 10 I i DISPLACE STEAM I i New Order of Things Planned f I for Mountain Division of p Southern Pacific I f i Nevada City CaL The elec electrification c of ot the mountain o oth of oft t I th the Southern Pacific railroad between i 1 I Auburn and Truckee on the Ogden t i I t route which hu hia bean talked of or fo for 1 i many years took definite shape today 4 1 t i v when hen C S Curtis Curth of the engineering en de det t t t filed flied application with Fore I I i Supervise i Bigelow for tor permits to build 1 power plants on land lands within the gov goy government I i j forest for t reserve in Sierra county I j r i Much preliminary work on this pro project prof proA A f teet jeet hes hu he already aready been done Permit for forthe forI forthe the construction of power plants plant along alone j I I the Rubicon river behind Lake Tahoe have hap been on obtained from the govern government government I ment in the name of the Rubicon Water WaterPower Power company which i 1 said to b ba be bea 1 a subsidiary company of ot the Southern I Pacific The first power plant will win be located bested bestedt it t Males Hales camp in northern northen Eldorado and the tha second on the banks of the th river When the power system is completed it is la the plan hf of the company to displace steam motive moUn power on its ita mountain dl r vision ision in favor of ot electrically propelled L i I trains The change ch will m necessitate an anI anIA IA I outlay of many millions of dollars and 11 have hav been In process of develop 1 1 t for tar everl months although little i has hai h been liven given iven them themA A portion of the work of increasing t hit 1 H efficiency of the mountain division f f nd id shortening distances nan has as been going 1 forward with the of a cutoff between h Auburn and TruckEe I An order Older for electrics electrical appliances ag A aggregating aggregating Ift Unc OS the largest lal Indi Individual L i vidual order of the kind ever given Riven in inI I Ms tide country has hal already been placed I Vf 7 the Southern Pacific company L |