A STUPENDOUS PROJECT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 April 1925, Page 7

A STUPENDOUS PROJECT.

BIG ENGINEERING FEAT.

WORK FOR TEN YEARS

A wonderful engineering project, one of the biggest in the world, is being carried but in .the Sierra Nevada mountains .by the Southern California. Edison .Company. It’ is th € constrntcion of a 'new water-power plant so colossal that it represents more work than the building of the Panama Canal. Although the work is in full swing, the earliest date at which it can .be completed is 1935, when power Jjior six million - people will be produced from the waterlalls of central and southern California ; and Los Angeles, the home ■of the cinematograph picture, will be lighted from the. same source. Most of this wonderfud work is being carried on among mountains quite outside the pale <oi civilisation, in rocky country where special- engines have had to be made to overcome the steep gra-' dients. These Imemnsely powerful locomotives are known as “galloping geese,’ and have terrific pulling power. 'Pile engineers and their staffs aredistributed over a wide area, and during the winter months can only communicate with each other by dog sleighs. Different lakes are being connected into huge lakes bv means of an' enormous dam, and the vast power of..waters which till now have run to waite is .being concentrated so as to generate hundreds of thousands ot lioi'se-po.wer. Six years will be spent in digging a subterranean tunnel thirteen miles long which will connect the Huntington and Florence lakes: 1000 cubic feet of water a second will race through this tunnel.