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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">Ken</font></p>
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