Lake Buntzen 1914 - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: journalofele323271914paci (find matches)
Title: Journal of electricity, power, and gas
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Pacific Coast Electric Transmission Association
Subjects: Electrical engineering Electricity Gas manufacture and works
Publisher: San Francisco : Technical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant



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Pacific CoastSAN FRANCISCO OAKLAND LOS ANGELES PORTLAND SEATTLE Member The Society for Electrical Development, Inc DO IT ELECTRICALLY. I Journal of Electricity POWER AND GAS Devoted to the Conversion, Transmission and Distribution of Energy I Volume XXXII SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 10, 1914 Number 2 (Copyright 1914 by Technical Publishing Company) TRANSMISSION LINE CONSTRUCTION DIFFICULTIES The story of the construction of the VancouverPower Companys new steel tower transmission lineis a further corroboration of the statement that waterpower sites are never given away; that considerabledevelopment is invariably essential, and that difficul-ties have to be met which would be discouraging to Valley & Southern Railway Company, Ltd. The Van-couver Power Company generates and distributes theenergy to the other concerns, which operate on themainland of British Columbia, over a very extensiveterritory, including North Vancouver and suburbs onthe north shore of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, South
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In places at water level and at others 500 ft. above Lake Buntzen. the average individual. But these projects are con-ceived by those real engineers, who are the prophetsof accomplishment; they who uncover natures mostcarefully guarded resources, and who then bend themto their will—the efficient service of the people. Forthem even the overshadowing barrier of the mountaindoes not baffle, but braces endeavor to its submis-sion ; it is tunnelled, traversed or removed. The Vancouver Power Company is connectedwith the British Columbia Electric Railway Company,Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Fraser Vancouver and a great number of smaller municipali-ties, and the connecting rural districts as far south asthe United States border line, and east, approximately100 miles to Chilliwack. The Vancouver Power Companys system hasheretofore been operating at 34,000 volts, transmittedover wooden pole lines, but with the installation ofan additional 42,000 h.p. at the new No. 2 power house