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<p>Thank you.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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?<br>
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<p>Ken</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/11/19 9:32 PM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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<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"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article143560899.html</a></div>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>
Moscow Idaho USA</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:11
PM Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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 the Internet:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"> <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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face="DejaVu Serif, serif"><br>
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face="DejaVu Serif, serif">Ken</font></p>
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