| Show WILL RIVAL NIAGARA POWER large electric plant to be placed near seattle and tacoma chicago aug au 8 contracts were let today which will result in supplying the cities of tacoma and seattle with electric light and power similar to if not far in advance of that now being furnished at niagara the falls power company has just closed contracts for the completion of its plant this enter prise ie is undertaken by chicago parties the project is perhaps the most wonderful development of 0 hydraulic power yet undertaken in this country rails falls ia is twenty two miles from seattle and about the fame same distance from tacoma in hn an air line and has an unbroken vertical fall of feet and is the only waterfall of commercial utility west of spokane the flow of the river is equal to horse power at low water and the plan of installation is euch such that at a email additional expense for dama dams and reservoirs the entire drainage dra inace from the enow snow fields of the watershed ol 01 1000 square miles will be available matting making over horse po power iver whenever business of adjacent cities may demand it the power hause is hewn out of solid rock feet beneath the crest of the fall where the immense water wheels connect direct with generators |
