anaheim-gazette 1928-09-20

Newspaper Men See New Project Inspect Southern Cal. Edison Company's Great Power Houses Newspaper men of Southern and Central California, accompanied by officials of the Southern California Edison Company, just completed a three-day inspection tour of the Big Creek-San Poaquin River project, where the Edison company has built a chain of power houses with a total capacity of 453,200 H.P. Leaving the floor of the San Joaquin Valley at Fresno, the party traveled over the San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad to Big Creek, which is the center of the Edison company's operations, and thence by stage to Huntington Lake, which lies at an elevation of 7000 ft. above sea level. The tour included a trip to Shaver Lake, the company's largest reservoir, which was completed last fall, and also the new power house No. 2-A which was brought into service three weeks ago, adding 112,000 H.P. to the company's generating system. There are now five power houses in this project. These receive their water supply fro mtree lakes which are connected by an elaborate system of tunnels and pipe lines, so arranged that practically all of the rainfall and melting snow in three water-sheds is utilized to generate electricity. In an informal address before the group assembled at Huntington Lake Lodge, R. H. Ballard, president of the Edison company, said, "We shall continue the development work on this project as the need for further hydro electric plants becomes apparent. We have reached a point in our history where our greatest activities for the next few years will be in the extension of our distribution lines for the service of customers rather than in the construction of more power houses. When more generators are necessary, we can meet the situation readily by merely making additions to the present power plants, both hydro and steam." During the next five years we plan and released in a regular volume to the ranchers in the valley below, which is to their great advantage. Water which formerly was wasted in the Pacific Ocean is now available during the dry summer months when it is most needed. For example, on the day of the visit the amount of water discharged into the river made a total flow four times as great as it would have been without each storage. An interesting by-product of the whole program is the use made of these lakes and the roads connecting them by summer tourists. Huntington Lake is the mecca for thousands of tourists each year and Shaver Lake may be opened later when construction conditions permit. Three steel power transmission lines have been built from Big Creek to Southern California carrying electricity at 220,000 volts. These are directly connected with steam plants at Long Beach, where the company recently completed the installation of the first eight new 125,000 H.P. steam turbines. Work has been begun on the second of the series and others are to be added as the demand for additional energy develops in Southern California. The company now has generation capacity of 1,000,000 H.P. about equally divided between water power and steam. In speaking of the tremendous stride which his company has made in past two decades, President Ballard stated, "As Southern and Central California grow, so we shall grow and it shall be our aim to keep safely ahead of the demand. With almost one-half million horsepower of hydro electric energy in the High Sierra closely tied in with a like quantity of steam generating capacity at Long Beach Steam plant, we now have a very flexible and highly efficient system. Steam plant efficiencies have risen at a rapid rate during the current decade. Our plant at the Long Beach harbor is now capable of generating and delivering to the load centers energy at a cost which compares favorably with the costs NEWSPAPERMEN ... pa-m which could be attained in any undeveloped water power sites in this region and we believe that still greater economies in steam power are not far ahead of us. We are prepared to take advantage of these economies as they develop and to so co-ordinate our hydro and steam generating facilities as to... Lodge, R. H. Ballard, president of the Edison company, said, "We shall continue the development work on this project as the need for further hydro electric plants becomes apparent. We have reached a point in our history where our greatest activities for the next few years will be in the extension of our distribution lines for the service of customers rather than in the construction of more power houses. When more generators are necessary, we can meet the situation readily by merely making additions to the present power plants, both hydro and steam. "During the next five years we plan to spend throughout our territory the sum of $130,000,000.00, largely for extensions to our distribution system. Of this amount $68,000,000.00 will be for payroll with an immediate direct benefit to all the territory served by our company. During the current year we will add to our lines 300,000 H. P. of new business. This is the result of new industries coming into the territory; the greater application of electricity on the farms an dhe more general use of electricity in the homes, particularly for cooking and refrigeration." As a necessary part of its water power program, the Edison company has created three beautiful artificial lakes in the high Sierras known respectively as Huntington, Florence and Shaver. These three lakes are from 5500 ft. to 7300 ft. above sea level and have a combined storage capacity of 292,000 acre feet (an acre foot being equivalent to one acre of water one foot deep). Shaver Lake, with a capacity of 138,570 acre feet, is the largest and latest member of the chain. Huntington Lake, the oldest of the group, is the next in size with 89,000 acre feet capacity; Florence Lake, the most remote of the three, will hold 64,400 acre feet. Three dams were necessary to transform a mountain meadow into Huntington Lake. Florence Lake was formed by building a multiple arch dam 3200 ft. long, with a maximum height of 147 ft. across the course of the south part of the San Joaquin river. This is one of the largest multiple arch dams ever constructed. At Shaver Lake, a concrete dam of the gravity section type, 2222 ft. long at the crest, and having a maximum height of 183 ft., was constructed, requiring more than 283,000 cu. yds. of concrete. Connecting Florence and Huntington Lakes is the world-famous Florence Lake Tunnel which was completed in 1925 after 4½ years of work calling for the solution of innumerable engineering problems. It was on this job that Alaskan dog teams were used to carry mail and emergency supplies to camps which were entirely snowbound during the winter months. Florence Lake Tunnel is the longest water tunnel of its size ever constructed, having 13½ miles and a cross section 15 ft. square. "In addition to creating a power supply of half a million horse power, the Big Creek project serves to regulate the flow of the San Joaquin River," Mr. Ballard said. "During the winter, water is stored in these three lakes highly efficient system. Steam plant efficiencies have risen at a rapid rate during the current decade. Our plant at the Long Beach harbor is now capable of generating and delivering to the load centers energy at a cost which compares favorably with the costs NEWSPAPERMEN ... p.m which could be attained in any undeveloped water power sites in this region and we believe that still greater economies in steam power are not far ahead of us. We are prepared to take advantage of these economies as they develop and to so co-ordinate our hydro and steam generating facilities as to bring the efficiencies of both to the highest point." The Big Creek-San Joaquin River hydro-electric project of Southern California Edison company has a capacity of 453,200 horsepower. This is equivalent to more than 1250 of the latest and largest locomotives. 2200 miles of aluminum cable is used on the three 220,000-volt transmission lines. Shaver Lake Dam is 2222 feet long. More than forty standard 150-foot office buildings could be built with the 283,-000 cubic yards of concrete in this dam. If all the concrete in this dam were loaded upon freight cars it would make up a train eighteen miles long. Florence Lake Tunnel is a bore 15 feet wide, and 15 feet high cutting through the native granite of the High Sierra for 13½ miles. This tunnel has a capacity five times that of the Los Angeles aquifer. The San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad built to carry men and materials into the construction project is known as the "crookedest" railroad in America. More than 1100 curves in the 56 miles of track. This 56 miles of mountain railroad was built in less time than it normally requires a crew of house builders to build two homes. INCURABLE DUPES Recent trials on charge of using the malls to defraud disclosed that while millions had been taken from investors in worthless stock, the law provides no method of compelling a swindler to disgorge his ill-gotten gains. What he steals he may keep. If he is caught the stolen money may be used for his defense. The bulk of it may be safely hidden away to serve him when he is set at liberty. Postoffice authorities state that some of these operators compile and preserve lists of persons who have lost money in stocks because they are easy victims. They call upon these investors, express sympathy for their misfortune and pretend to show them how they may make more than they had lost by investing in the stock the swindler offers. The "suckers" themselves are so largely responsible for the conditions that authorities have become thoroughly discouraged and disgusted. It was on this job that Alaskan dog teams were used to carry mail and emergency supplies to camps which were entirely snowbound during the winter months. Florence Lake Tunnel is the longest water tunnel of its size ever constructed, having 13½ miles and a cross section 15 ft. square. "In addition to creating a power supply of half a million horse power, the Big Creek project serves to regulate the flow of the San Joaquin River," Mr. Ballard said. "During the winter, water is stored in these three lakes." Latest Word in Dancing Feature "TWO for ONE" Double Ball Rooms—Two Orchestras! One for Old-time Dances—One for the Modern—All for the Price of One! Specials Novelties and Prizes Every Night Except Sunday ADMISSION Ladies ... 25¢ Gentlemen ... 35¢ INCLUDING DANCING Saturdays and Holidays, Gents Free Picture Show Ample Room for All Silver Spray Twin Ball Rooms SILVER SPRAY PIER LONG BEACH J. A. CRANE, Proprietor ANAHEIM GAZETTE Cow Testing Best Form of Farm Relief "One of the best 'farm relief' measures that I know anything about is the cow testing association movement," said Sum H. Greene, secretary of California Dairy Council. "'Farm relief,' as I understand it, means some method or system whereby the farmer is enabled to make a better profit from the business enterprise in which he is engaged. Dairy farming, particularly, is a business enterprise and those who are engaged in dairy farming in California are fast employing business methods. "The starting point for business methods on the dairy farm is cow testing. In that way the farmer knows the amount of milk and cream that each cow of his herd produces and can separate the profit-makers from the boarders." "Testing is an operation that must be carried on collectively. The expense of setting up a system for testing only a few cows would be prohibitive. "In California, which leads all states in percentage of cows under test, the work has been carried on under auspices of the Farm Bureau and with co-operation of the Agricultural Extension Division of the University of California. "The current report by G. E. Gordon, University of California Extension Specialist in Dairying, shows that there are now 55,563 cows under regular test in this state. "The largest testing association in the United States is the Los Angeles County association with 9876 cows. The Ferndale association, in Humboldt county, is oldest in continuous operation. "Of this total of 55,563 cows under test in California, 10,100 produced more than 40 pounds of butterfat in the month covered by Gordon's report. "The average monthly production of butterfat for all cows in California, inside and outside of testing associations, is less than 20 pounds per cow. "A 20-pound cow eats just as much as a 40-pound cow and requires the same amount of labor and care, while the 40-pound cow produces twice the revenue. "And my point is, that a system which gives the dairy farmer information by which he may separate his 20-pound cows from his 40-pounders is about the finest form of this 'farm relief' that just now is so much talked about." California produces annually evaporated whole milk worth $15,000,000. During 1927, the manufactured value of dairy products in California was $153,885,760. The people of California consume more than $17,000,000 worth of ice cream (wholesale value) annually. There are 55,563 cows under regular test for production in California. The percentage of cows under test is greater than for any other state in the Union. Los Angeles county has greater dairy production than any other county in California. Next, in order, are Merced, Stanley Humphrey, 10,100 to hold buscies carefion. The date has been than LOC. The just compilated State amounts to the w In each in Gr In the at in Gr First in both Class "A" events of the world's greatest air derby! Three new aviation records! Leading a field of 37 starters in every lap except one during the entire flight, Earl Rowland in a Scarab-motored Cessna Monoplane covered the 2939 miles of the Class "A" transcontinental air won the Class "A" San Francisco Angeles race with an elapse hours, 10 minutes and 2 while the huge tri-motor Monoplane,"Richfield"speed San Francisco with a load sengers in 2 hours and 13 tablishing still another avia of the world’s greatest air derby! Three new aviation records! Leading a field of 37 starters in every lap except one during the entire flight, Earl Rowland in a Scarab-motored Cessna Monoplane covered the 2939 miles of the Class “A” transcontinental air race from New York to Los Angeles in 25 hours, 14 minutes and 6 seconds elapsed time—a new record for planes of this class! Rowland used Richfield Aviation Gasoline exclusively, competing with practically every well known brand of gasoline that is sold. Immediately following Rowland’s sensational feat, H. S. Myrhes in a Simplex Monoplane powered with Richfield Aviation Gasoline and Richlube Motor Oil Angeles race with an elapse of hours, 10 minutes and 2 while the huge tri-motor Monoplane, "Richfield" speeded San Francisco with a load sengers in 2 hours and 13 establishing still another aviation Rowland's and Myrhes' great follow on the heels of Art Gord breaking non-stop Coor flight and Captain Wilkins' 2300-mile dash over the North both made with Richfield. Richfield continues to demonstrate great winning qualities in tion—the qualities which have more speedway victories records than all other gas combined. Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 20, 1928 bucks per cow. ew eats just as much low and requires the labor and care while produces twice the that a system which former information by separate his 20-pound bounders is about the is "farm relief" that which talked about." Produces annually evapworth $15,000,000. Manufactured value ests in California was California consume $10,000 worth of ice value) annually. Cows under regular in California. The under test is greater state in the Union. County has greater dairy any other county in in order, are Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, San Joaquin and Humboldt counties. 10,109 cows in California are known to have produced 40 pounds or more of butterfat each in one month. These cows are in testing associations and careful record is made of their production. The co wresting association at Ferndale in Humboldt county, California, has been in continuous operation longer than any other in the United States. LOW PRODUCTION COSTS The national conference board has just completed an interesting study of comparative efficiency between United States and British mechanics, in the amount the average worker added to the work material he handled. In the United States the output of each steel worker was $3059 a year; in Great Britain, $975. In the United States the worker in the automobile added $4096 a year, and in Great Britain, $206. Of course such a standard works both ways. What benefits the employenaturally benefits the employer. The national conference board figures show the American employer today gets more than three times the value for his outlay in wages than the employer of any other country. In other words the 'American employer enjoys the cheapest labor production costs. As foreign nations esablish protective tariffs this condition necessarily reduces consuming power and sooner or later production must slow up to a greater extent than at present. HANNALEI HILLS A Beautiful Subdivision Under Vista Water. A few lots from 3 to 5 acres at $400 to $600 per acre; easy terms. CHOICE AVOCADO LAND 10 acres piped to lease for 4 years. H. R. HANNA, San Marcos, Calif. 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