<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">There was electrical power in Moscow earlier:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><span style="font-family:Lyon,serif;font-size:17px">...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...</span> </i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article143560899.html">https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article143560899.html</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Edison built the first centralized power plant in 1880. It appears to have been rapidly adopted.<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><b><font size="+1">First electrical power to Moscow, Idaho</font></b><br>
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<p>Here is a one-paragraph news item recovered from the archives of
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<font face="DejaVu Serif, serif">From the third column on page 18
of
Western Electrician, dated July 2, 1904:</font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="DejaVu
Serif, serif">The
Moscow Electric Light and Power Company of Moscow, Idaho, has
secured
a 10-year contract</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="DejaVu
Serif, serif">from the City of Genesee for lighting the streets
and pumping the city water, and will put in a substation in that
town,</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="DejaVu
Serif, serif">taking the current from the new transmission lines
being run to
Moscow by the Lewiston Water Power Company.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="DejaVu
Serif, serif">It is expected that the
line will be complete to Genesee before September 1<sup>st</sup>
and
to Moscow October 1<sup>st</sup>.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font face="DejaVu
Serif, serif">Power is being transmitted at
22,000 volts over a 60-mile line from Asotin, Wash.</font></p>
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