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Identifier: pacificgaselectr61915paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific Gas and Electric magazine
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Public utilities
Publisher: (San Francisco, Calif.) : Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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ce is calledOhm. But the vanished hum of industry ismade up for by a new sound—the roarof the water as it escapes over the damand to the freedom of the South Yuba.The sound is pleasing to the ears of Mr.Britton and his engineers, for it meansthat the Lake Spaulding dam is doing itsfull duty and, llirougli its agency, so arcDrum canal and the power-house in BearBiver gorge, some nine miles below; butthis feeling of satisfaction, too, may betinged with regret, for no engineer likesto see so much power go to waste as isindicated by the huge cataract that poursover the spillway. But it is enough, forthe present, to know that our initial de-velopment is living up to the fullest esti-mates. By and l)y we are going to puteiglily feet more concrete on top of thailiani: when we do, tliose little hlulls Ispoke of will he islands, and drouseRidge and Olil Man Mountain and BedMountain will ronu- nearer yet in Iheperspective. We keep her lilled. said lake-lenderMagnuson complacentlx. Then he re-
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