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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s. It shortly went into a receivershands and later was shut down. Finally the court ordereda sale, but the price bid was afterwards declared too low.A second sale took place and the road was bought bvanother party who bid less than the first. This deal alsowas declared off and recenth a third sale was held and theproperty knocked down for $4,700 to Flint & .Scott—the LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION ATBAKERSFIELD, CAL. The plant which the Power Development Company, ofSan Francisco, has recently completed for utilizing thepower of Kern river, the third stream in California, is inpoint of size, in all probability, except for Niagara, withouta peer in the perfection of its transmission and equipment.The generating plant is located at the mouth of the Kernriver cation, on the edge of the Sierre Nevada mountains,16 miles to the northeast of Bakersficld, Cal., by wagonroad, and 14 miles in a straight line. Here the river afterits course of ncarlv 100 miles throu<rh ru<rued canons from
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THE FLUME GRADE AT WATER LEVEL.SAW MILL. INTERIOR OF FLUME.PIPE LINE CONSTRUCTION. lowest sale of all. At this time deep snow was upon theface of the earth. When the snow melted and the pigcame out of his poke, the buyers concluded their best way tosuccess was to pull up the iron and sell it for scrap. Thisthey proceeded to do, but the city secured an injunction ;and there they are. This would be an excellent place formunicipal ownership and a 3-cent fare. The friends of W. VV. Bean, president of the lines atSt. Joseph, Mich., who some time since was forced to defendhis property by force of arms will understand the followingfrom a neighboring Michigan paper, which says : It issaid that because W. W. Bean, president of the street rail-way company does not like Gov. Pingree, he wanted thePingree Rifles of St. Joseph, to change their name. Oneof them suggested that thev call themselves Bean Shooters.. Mt. Whitney, breaks into a number of cataracts and rapidsbefore finally settling down t

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