The Greenwood Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-30
issued: 1899-12-01
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/greemine/items/1.0081978/source.json
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note: OjOLA. i THE GREENWOOD MINER. Vol. 1, No. 44. GREENWOOD, B. C, FRIDAY, DEC. 1, J899. $2.00 Per Year. CONTRACTS ALL LET For Electric Lighting of Creen- wood City Within Ninety Days���The Plant for Its Size Will Be the Best Money Can Buy. All the preliminaries in connection with the electric light plant for Greenwood have been arranged. The by-law has been finally passed, the agreement between the city and company signed and the contract let for the plant. Geo. C. Hinton, of Hinton & Co., electricians, Vancouver and Victoria, representing the Royal Electric Co., Montreal, has secured the contract for the electrical plant in connection, as follows: One 150 kilowatt, 2000, volt2-phase 5'SK C" inductor type generator, 3000 light capacity, complete with all equipments; and all the material, insulators, pins and supplies. The generator, switchboard and instruments are of the very latest and most improved pattern. As promised by Duncan Mcintosh, the entire plant is the best that can be had for the money and the most modern. It will cost about $20,000.00; and is all ready to ship, so that it will, barring accident, be installed well within the ninety days. W. P. Dickson, Nelson, has been appointed engineer in charge of the instalation. a large city. It will be opened Thanksgiving by a dance and will accommodate about 60 guests. K is very much needed as at present there is not one half enough accommodation for the traveling public. The past week the town has been full and beds at $1 each could not be had. Every night the stages are loaded both from Oro and Rock Creek, to say nothing of the crowds coming through from Republic and two or three more hotels are needed. Word has been received from Washington to the effect that the reservation is to be thrown open for settlement in January and already land hunters are thick looking over the land west of Chesaw before the snow falls, so as to be ready to make the rush, opening day. There is about twenty miles square of good farming …
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Greenwood (B.C.)
spatial: Greenwood
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0081978
language: English
lat: 49.0883330
long: -118.6763890
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Greenwood, B.C. : The Greenwood Miner Printing Company
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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