Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 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 Fplsoin, in California, and the Hfli iTTs t o be clftisit met ecT at the Horseshoe Beml on the Merced River. The location is near the center of a mining district, having jit least 100 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.