Pacific service magazine (1924) (14595055729)

Identifier: pacificservicema1627paci (find matches)
Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library



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VIEW OF THE RIVER FROM PIT NO. THREE - - - Frontispiece STARTING WORK ON PIT NO. FOUR - - - F.S. Myrtle 203 NEW 220,000 VOLT LINE TO ANTIOCH, WITH LONG SPAN RIVER CROSSINGS - - - L.J. Corbett 206 A BRAVE EXPERIMENT IN WIRE-TAPPING ----- 210 PACIFIC SERVICE PLAYS AN IMPORTANT PART IN THE MARBLE QUARRYING INDUSTRY - Ward C.Schafer 212 PENINSULA DEVELOPMENT AIDED BY PACIFIC SERVICE—DEVONSHIRE HILLS - - - F. A. Peck 216 GAS, THE INDUSTRIAL SUPER-FUEL - - - J.H.Gumz 217 THE LATE R. R. COLGATE, PIONEER OF PACIFIC SERVICE - - - 222 IN MEMORIAM—CHARLES W. McKILLIP 223 THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERVICE - - A. F. H. 22A- WIDENING SAVINGS BANK INVESTMENT FIELD - E.J.Beckett 226 EDITORIAL ------- 230
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On Pit River. Looking down stream from Pit Three power-house. The diversion dam at Pit Fourdevelopment will back the waters of the river to this point PACIFIC SERVICE MAGAZINE Volume XVI JANUARY, 1926 Number 7 Starting Work on Pit No. Four By FREDERICK S. MYRTLE There is, apparently, no period of rest insight for our companys Departments ofEngineering and Electrical Construction.With regard to the Pit river developmentnow in progress, the completion of onepower plant in the chain affords but a briefbreathing spell for our engineering forcesbefore word is sent out to commence workon the next in order. Pit No. Three was formally placed inservice August 1, 1925, and ever since thatdate has been industriously contributing itshourly quota of electrical energy to the Pa-cific Service pool. And now we are hardat work on Pit No. Four. The outstanding engineering features ofthis development are similar to those of itsimmediate predecessor. They include a di-version dam, by which the waters of