Show CONTRACTS WILL BE BELET BELET BELET LET FOR POWER PLANT Allen E B Parker Parl e traveling trav lIng passenger agent of o the Milwaukee oc system who arrived from tho the north says that lint con cou contracts contracts tracts will bo be let lct in a few ow days for tho the erection of oC big bib power plants on the Missoula and SL of the Pa Pal Pacific civic cl fic extension of tho the 1111 p road These plants Mr Parker says sas are re for forthe forthe the tho generation of power to operate tho UIO new road through the Ule Bitter Root mountains b by electricity Tho The section of the road rund to be thus operated lies between St Sl Regis Mont and St Joe Idaho He adds that each of the tho two plants will he be or horse horsepower horsepower power and that outer other power r sites are arc ar arb being boing b Investigated for development in i I the Ule Immediate future futuro Continuing Mr Parker said Tile The electrification of miles of a transcontinental road over a moun mountain tain line lino is really an experiment While electric operation of trains Is being done In tho east enst It Is over Iet a t comparatively level country and tho lie difficulties solved furnish no so solution lution for ninny many man of the problems which must be met bore In the iho west wesl Nothing Noth NothIng Ing can ho bo learned now as us to the type of oC locomotive which will bo be used or methods metho s of oC operation as plans and nd cs es are arc now under consideration to lo determines these The addi additional power powel sites which the Iho Milwaukee lice kee company compan will wili conduct arc not ne necessarily necessarily along nl ng tho the right of wn vav ay of the I road as transmission of electric pow power er is an easy cas matter matterI I I 1 tool look for the Southern Pacific and an anthe the big modernly managed mana el roads loads of I the Harriman system to lo employ elec electric power In tho the operation of or trains over oer tho the Sierra Nevada and other mountain districts In the tho near future I as electricity Is cheaper so far and anti more available generally than power derived from rom coal or 01 other othe fuel I |