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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling & Mining Co

Description: Bishop Creek (construction at Plants 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), operator cottages, wood-stave flowlines, erecting transmission towers, erecting standpipe, diversions and intakes.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1904-1908
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Bishop Creek (construction at Plants 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6), operator cottages, wood-stave flow-lines, erecting transmission towers, erecting standpipe, diversions and intakes.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Bishop Creek hydroelectric project

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Intake 2 Reservoir on North Fork Bishop Creek, Dam site - Reservoir No. 2, Lake on Middle Fork of Bishop Creek (Reservoir No. 1), dam site Reservoir No. 1, dam and intake, wood stave flowline, construction of a Bishop Creek Powerhouse [looks like Plant No. 4].

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California Electric Power Corp.: hydroelectric plants and other facilities; San Gorgonio plants No. 1 and No. 2

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Photographs of San Gorgonio hydroelectric Plants 1 and 2, including a map, operator's cottages, water tanks, pipeline repairs; Bishop Creek - Replacing Plant 4 standpipe, dredging intake 4, snow cat work at South Lake, snow catcher; California Electric Power visit to Big Creek; Transmission line repairs in snow; Palm Springs District Office and other California Electric Power facilities.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: progress reports

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Photographs of Rhyolite Substation, Temescal Rock Company Substation, Banning Substation; Bishop Creek hydroelectric Plant No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5; Reservoir No. 1 [South Lake or Lake Sabrina], Equalizing Reservoir [Intake 2] showing proposed position of Plant No. 1, Control Station, and Cottages; Substations and Transmission Lines, including Victorville, Ransburg, Tonopah, Goldfield, Alkali, Manhattan, Elsinore, El Centro, and San Bernardino; Otay Dam and Reservoir.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Vance & Sandy 1926 - Bishop Creek hydroelectric project

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Bishop Creek hydroelectric project - wood face dams at South Lake, and Lake Sabrina; Intake 2 reservoir; operator's cottage, Plant 4, Intake 5.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Hoover Dam line construction

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Photographic map of Nevada-California Electric Corporation Transmission Line from Victorville to Boulder (Hoover) Dam site with profiles, tower drawings, as well as photographs of construction camps, tower installations, building tower bases, hanging insulators, stringing conductors, splicing conductor, switching towers, angle towers, angle "AP" type towers, dead end towers, and the Hoover Dam Substation.

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