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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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ee, and extra feedshad to be built to the Civic Center for thispurpose. The scarcity of materials owing to the demands of war and the short spaceof time before Christmas Eve—theinitial lighting of the tree—made thetask very difficult. But Britton threw thewhole resources of the Pacific Gas andElectric Company into the undertakingand succeeded in making the great Christ-mas Eve fete the tremendous successwhich it was. Head Offices, San Francisco IN MEMORIAM Mr. Howard F. Cunningham, whowas in charge of the mailing depart-ment, died at the St. Francis Hospitalon the morning of December 24th. Mr.Cunningham had been employed bythe company since January 3, 1913,prior to which time he was employedby the Pacific Telephone and Tele-graph Company. He leaves one daugh-ter, to whom his many friends extendtheir deepest sympathy. Mr. Franz Louis Hoefer, employedas janitor, passed away on December26th. Mr. Hoefer had been in thecompanys employ since September 3,1918. 254 Pacific Service Magazine
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The California-Oregon Power Companys Greaii River, in Siskiyo The Journal of Electricity in its issueof August 15, 1918, has the following tosay concerning the Copco development: This striking new engineering feat indam construction has recently been com-pleted in northern California for theCalifornia-Oregon Power Company. Thepower from this source will be of con-stant supply throughout the year and thenew interconnections now under waywill soon make this timely energy in thefar North available in the great industrialcenters of the San Francisco Bay district.The breadth of interconnected networkinvolved shatters all previous world rec-ords in the history of electrical engi-neering. This new unit of the California-OregonPower Company, on the Klamath Riverin northern California, is ideally locatedwith reference to the rest of the sys-tem. At the geographical center of thecompanys lines, with lines radiating to the Klamath, the Rogue River, and theSiskiyou Divisions, it relieves the defi-

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