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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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October. Due to the isolated location of the Lakes, abouteighty miles across the mountains to thetowns in Amador and fifty miles to Car-son, Nevada, there was little floating laborto recruit from, and the crews were se-lected with some care prior to the open-ing of the season. Construction materialwas expensive, as the freight rate fromSan Francisco to Carson was almost equalto that from the East to San Francisco,and the team haul of fifty miles from Car-son further increased the cost. As an in-dication, cement laid down at the Lakescost §8.00 per barrel. This was a deter-mining factor in selecting a type of damsuch as that for Meadow lake, namely dryrock fill. The log cabin which has been usedfor many years as a headquarters at theLakes was built in the seventies and wasoften referred to as the most substantialhouse in Alpine County; when you con-sider that Alpine County casts betweeneighty and ninety votes this maj not havebeen an idle boast. One odd feature of the Blue Lakes con-
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.r ;)cw ililili. .hilv .T. null. Mr. W . 1 i^iiil, I.. I, lip. r.iiclinw lr,,rii li-ll In riglil. iirr: Mr. ,\. 1. \l. kImII I-.IIIs, Irhu-c Aiulrc Pnniiiltiwski, Mr. N. Sciirllcld, Mr. C. K. Green iiiul Mr. Willlnii 346 Pacific Service I^gazine struction was the Indian camp. CaptainPete Mayo and liis tribe of Alpine Washoeswere a regular part of each seasons con-struction crew. Some years previouslythe Blue Lakes Company had presentedthe captain with a gold watch accom-panied by an ornate document extollinghis merits and that of his tribe, and there-after he considered himself as a sort ofsilent partner in the enterprise. His crewof about thirty men were excellent work-ers in the woods, although of little useon rock work. The first two winters of operation ofthe Upper Standard canal were fraughtwith much grief. With a perversity in-herent in new ditches it refused to stayput, and slides and breaks were of fre-quent occurrence. Some of the troublereports, while amusing to read over no

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