Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — Big Electrical Plant. [ARTICLE]

Big Electrical Plant.

Mariposa County, California, is to have the third largest electrical power developing and distributing plant In the United States. The largest is at Niagara, the next is at Folsom, in California. and the third is to be constructed at the Horseshoe Bend on the Merced River. The location is near the center of a mining uistrict, having at least KK) mines that are sufficiently prospected to use cheap power. At the driest season of the year the power company calculates upon 1,800 horse power, and during eight months in the year they expect water enough to generate 3,500 horse power. The price the company proposes to charge its consumers is $5 per horse-power a month.