BONNEVILLE IN CONTRACTS FOR ELECTRIC LINES
Bonneville In Contracts For Electric Lines PORTLAND. Ore.—Fritz Ziebarth of Long Beach. Calif., was low bidder last week on construction of the Bonneville Power administration's 4>2-mile...
...The new line will follow the right-of-way of Bonneville's already completed Portland circuit from the Vancouver substation to the north shore of the Columbia...
...Ziebarth's offer was $121,913...
...The line will be completed during the summer months...
...Calif., was low bidder last week on construction of the Bonneville Power administration's 4>2-mile transmission line to serve the new reduction plant of the Aluminum Co...
...It will pay the government $17.50 per year for each kilowatt delivered and will increase its demand at the rate of 500 kilowatts each month until it is purchasing a total of 32.500 kilowatts...
...The strike is being conducted by the Hotel Trades Council (AFL...
...of Chicago...
...The Bonneville administration also awarded a contract for the construction of its 230,000-volt line between Kelso and ChehalLs, Washington, to the White City Electric Co...
...The economies effected in operating costs have not only permitted this reduction in subsidies but have also enabled rents on completed projects to be cut about 18 per cent below the original estimates...
...From that point it will run west to the site of the Aluminum company plant on which preliminary construction work has been under way for several weeks...
...The aluminum company, under terms of its power contract with Bonneville...
...Strike Chairman Hugh Monroe said: "We have been fighting for one year and we will stay out for 10 years if necessary...
...The new line will be of steel tower construction...
...Hill take initial delivery of 27.000 kilowatts of power nut later than Jan...
...1, 1941...
...When these ruts in annual contributions are added to other financial arrangements made by the USHA, they reduce the net cost of the program to the federal government to about half of the maximum subsidies allowable under the law...
...Clinton has marked its first year...
...This low figure has been achieved by the reduction of rent subsidies...
...NEW YORK—The strike of 370 workers against the 31-story Hotel Gov...
...It was said...
...These cuts, averaging a reduction of about 20 per cent in the rate of annual subsidy below the rate originally contemplated will save the government millions of dollars each year, and are based upon more than two years of work in developing economical plans for the operation of projects...
...of America near Vancouver, Wash...
...Only one other bid was offered...
...It will carry energy at 110,000 volts from Bonneville's bus bar at its power substation near Vancouver...
...Housing Costs At Low Rate to U. S. Governm't WASHINGTON, D. C—The cost to the federal government of assisting families from the slums to live in decent housing has been reduced to about $6 a family per month, or about $1.50 a person per month, the United States Housing Authority asserts...
...It is designed so that it can be adapted to serve the industry with as much as 200,000 kilowatts if expansion should ever require such service...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
