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Show GIGANTIC ELECTRICAL PLAN. Company Formed in Los Angeles to Supply Power to San Francisco. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 3. An electrical power scheme of gigantic proportions, backed by heavy capital, and having for Its object the supplying of San Francisco and central cities of the Stale, has just been formed here. It Is said that tho corporation will he backed by. English and American capital, capi-tal, which is planning to use 'he waters wa-ters of the Mokelumne- and othvr rivers riv-ers and streams In Calaveras nnd Tuolumne Tu-olumne counties to generate electrical power. R. S. Masson, who Is accredited accredit-ed as chief engineer for the corporation, Is quoted to the effect that over ?H0,-000,000 ?H0,-000,000 will be expended by the corporation corpora-tion In the development of this proposition. propo-sition. A statement that II. E. Huntington Hunt-ington and E. II. Harrlman are Interested Inter-ested Is denied, but It Is said that the former Is going after a big Yosemlte proposition involving the construction of a system of electric roads through the central portion of the State. Connected Con-nected with this will be an electric lino from Fre?no, which will be 70 miles In length and cost about ?1.0O0,O00 to build. |