[Vision2020] First electrical power to Moscow, Idaho

[Kenneth Marcy]

Thank you.

That's nice, and an information improvement in that it pushes the 
timeline back fourteen years and seven months, but it still doesn't 
answer my original question to myself: "When was electric service first 
publicly available in Moscow, Idaho?"  At the moment, my answer is 
"before March, 1890," but apparently that is not the end of the story.

Related questions now occur to me: Has publicly available electric 
service ever been generated in Moscow, Idaho?  If so, what are the 
details and dates?



Ken



On 8/11/19 9:32 PM, Ron Force wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 1^st .
>
>     Power is being transmitted at 22,000 volts over a 60-mile line
>     from Asotin, Wash.
>
>
>
>     Ken
>
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