WAHKIAKUM IS 4TH NEW POWER UNIT STARTED
Wahkiakum Is 4th New Power Unit Started District Buys Private Utility; Use Bonneville Power PORTLAND, Ore. — Wahkiakum county this week became the fourth public utility district In Washington to...
...Both of thess districts will be served with power from Bonneville dam as soon as transmission lines to Raymond are completed...
...The latter district will extend its power operations to Naselle Junction, Ilwaco, South Bend, Long Beach and other adjoining communities...
...As a result of the transfer the Wahkiakum district will begin serving power users in Skamokowa, Cathlamet, Puget Island and other communities in the county...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Benefits under the railroad retirement act during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, amounted to $106,841,632, the Railroad Retirement Board reports...
...Checks totalling $570,000— $420,000 of which was paid by the two districts —changed hands Monday at the Bonneville Administration offices in Portland...
...Until completion of the Bonneville Administration transmission line to Raymond next summer, both districts will continue to receive power from the four generating plants they have just purchased...
...This supply will be augmented by a short term power rontrart wilh the Westport Lumber mill...
...Pacific public utility district also is planning salary adjustments...
...Wahkiakum county this week became the fourth public utility district In Washington to acquire its own electric power lines of the West Coast Power Co...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Declaring it had jurisdiction over building service employes, the NLRB ordered an election among employes of the Texas Co., at its office in Houston, Tex...
...The Bonneville Power administration purchased the West Coast Co.'s transmission lines in Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, and will Incorporate them into the transmission network which will serve southwest Washington...
...The Pacific district has contracted for 1500 kilowatts of Bonneville power, and Wahkiakum has arranged for an initial supply of 400 kilowatts of primary power...
...for $120,000...
...At the same time Pacific Public Utility district bought three of the company's generating plants and the balance of its distribution lines for $300,-000...
...The Bonneville administration has agreed to resell a portion of the West Coast transmission line to the Pacific PUD for $33,750 as soon as plans are approved for construction of a heavier power circuit along the same right-of-way...
...Commissioners of the Wahkiakum utility district announced they would retain all employees of the company and that an immediate pay increase of 15 per cent would be authorized...
...The properties acquired by the administration at a cost of approximately $150,000 consist of 80 miles of high tension lines, approximately a mile of submarine cable extending across the Columbia river and four substations...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
