Identifier: pacificservicema1019paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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Major Sever at Crater Lake in charge of Messrs.W. M. Shepard (right) and Perry Crawford (left.l. Pacific Service Magazine 243 Falls lies down the east slope of thedivide. It skirts Anna Creek gorge, ofgreat height and similar in scenery tothat of the Rogue River. An interestingfeature of the trip is the passing throughthe Klamath Indian Reservation, wherethere are signs of active industry underGovernment supervision. Fort Klamath the proposed site of a new dam which thecompanj has in contemplation and which,it is estimated, will raise the surface ofthe water four feet. The Klamath Fallspower plant is at the other end of thetown, and is used to supply electric lightfor the community. The distance fromCrater Lake to Klamath Falls is sixtv-
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Near view of the Copco power plant, showing powor lll)U^( . ih above, the companys gue^thuus and, on the heights is at the lower end and then, a few milesfarther down the road, the scenery opensand the broad expanse of Upper KlamathLake is in view. This placid sheet ofwater is thirty miles in length, the onlypoint in which it beats Lake Tahoe, andthe road to Klamath Falls runs along theeast shore. At the lower end rises theLink River, w^hich flows through KlamathFalls and upon which the California-Oregon Company maintains a hydro-electric power plant of 600-kilowatt ca-pacity. Water for this plant is divertedabout a mile and a half above the townand just above the spot marked out for three miles by road, and a rough roadat that. Our party stayed over night at KlamathFalls and the next morning left for Copco,a distance of fifty miles. In most respectsthe trip resembled that of the previousday, the road now leading through pineforest, now swinging round corners over-hanging a great gorg

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