[Vision2020] First electrical power to Moscow, Idaho

[Ron Force]

There was electrical power in Moscow earlier:
*...At the end of March 1890, with Idaho statehood only weeks away,
electric light plants were in operation in these cities, with the number of
lights each of them could supply: Boise, 1,000; Moscow, 750; Wallace, 650;
Blackfoot, 500; Hailey, 500; Caldwell, 500... *
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article143560899.html

Edison built the first centralized power plant in 1880. It appears to have
been rapidly adopted.
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

>
> *First electrical power to Moscow, Idaho*
>
> Here is a one-paragraph news item recovered from the archives of the
> Internet:
>
>
> From the third column on page 18 of Western Electrician, dated July 2,
> 1904:
>
>
> The Moscow Electric Light and Power Company of Moscow, Idaho, has secured
> a 10-year contract
>
> from the City of Genesee for lighting the streets and pumping the city
> water, and will put in a substation in that town,
>
> taking the current from the new transmission lines being run to Moscow by
> the Lewiston Water Power Company.
>
> It is expected that the line will be complete to Genesee before September 1
> st and to Moscow October 1st.
>
> Power is being transmitted at 22,000 volts over a 60-mile line from
> Asotin, Wash.
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
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