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Show POWER LINE GOING JO REPUBLIC CAMP Special to Tho Tribune. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 12 Extension of the electric power line of the Washington Wash-ington Water Power companv from Its $0,000,000 plant on the Spokane river to Republic, to serve the mines and mills of the camp, Is being considered bv officials of-ficials of the big Spokane power" corporation. cor-poration. D. L. Huntington, president of the Washington Water Power company: C. F. McCalla, general manager; Benjamin B. Lawrence, New York mining engineer and director in the Washington Water Power company; Harold White, a large stockholder, and M. C. Osborn, a commercial com-mercial agent, made a trip to Republic, and visited the mines of tho camp with J. L. Harper, general manager of the Republic Mines corporation and of tha North Washington Power & Reduction company The proposed extension would be over the water power company's own right or way In Stevens county, taking in Chewclah and the United Copper. Copper Cop-per King. Copper Queen and other mines of the Chewclah district; thence up the Columbia river, crossintr at Kettle Falls and going over the divide of tho Sherman Sher-man range to Romibllc. The Spokane officials looked over the Republic district thoroughly to ascertain the permanency of Industries along the route chosen and to learn whether the volume of business Is sufficient to warrant war-rant n. 60.000-volt. 60-cvcle. three-phase line 110 miles long. Thouch tho proposed pro-posed line would supplement that now under construction by the North Wash-Incton Wash-Incton Power & Reduction company, the outlook for power consumption Is such as to lead mnny to the belief that the move Is Justified. The cost of electrh. power Is expected to be one-third the jcost of power generated by steam. |