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Show HELENA AHEAD IN ELECTRICITY Only Niagara Will Head the Montana City When Hau-ser Hau-ser LaKe Is Filled and Generation Begins. HELENA. Mont., Jan. 25. The gates were closed in the1 Hauser Lake dam this morning. It will be three weeks before the power is turned on, as it will take this time for the lake to fill. The water will bark up eighteen miles in the oiver and through the Prickly Pear xanron, six miles in the valley below Helena. The dam 640 feet long 'and seventy feet wide, and is mif of steel throughout. The dam ix t largest of its kind in the world. - reffeen thousand horsepower will be Generated, and this, with the canyon efry plant, will make Helena the largest producer of electricity in the eonntry, with the exception of Niagara. . The power will ran the Washoe reduction reduc-tion works and the Anaconda railway, and will -light this city and operate many ot the Batte mines. |