<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Several publications mention the "electric light plant" . Here's a couple of pictures from the UI Special Collections.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/collection/ott/id/453/rec/1">https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/collection/ott/id/453/rec/1</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/collection/ott/id/454/rec/1">https://digital.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/collection/ott/id/454/rec/1</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The story:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qLJNIiwGuVUC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=michael+j+Shields+moscow+id&source=bl&ots=ZqQqFvjlls&sig=ACfU3U0It0Ut3OsTFCufQfTw98s6fiIg1A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin8NKFp_7jAhVJlFQKHZbbBFsQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=michael%20j%20Shields%20moscow%20id&f=false">https://books.google.com/books?id=qLJNIiwGuVUC&pg=PA78&lpg=PA78&dq=michael+j+Shields+moscow+id&source=bl&ots=ZqQqFvjlls&sig=ACfU3U0It0Ut3OsTFCufQfTw98s6fiIg1A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwin8NKFp_7jAhVJlFQKHZbbBFsQ6AEwBXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=michael%20j%20Shields%20moscow%20id&f=false</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sadly, Shields died at 57, and was preceded in death by his children:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24033911/michael-joseph-shields">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24033911/michael-joseph-shields</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">He had gone bust in the 1893 depression but had recovered somewhat:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://accessgenealogy.com/idaho/biography-of-michael-j-shields.htm">https://accessgenealogy.com/idaho/biography-of-michael-j-shields.htm</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">One of his buildings lives on:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,30,30);font-family:metropolis-regular,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(251,251,251)"> Use of the Italianate style for downtown buildings was also relatively common as in the Shields Building on the intersection’s southeast corner. Michael Shields developed the Shields Building North as Moscow’s first three-story brick building with an elevator in 1889. The building has since lost some of its original ornamentation and has been modified at the street level.</span> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ID-01-057-0003">https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/ID-01-057-0003</a> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_5516902677449439343m_7611719973129520006gmail_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 Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 5:33 AM Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" target="_blank">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>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="gmail-m_5516902677449439343gmail-m_7611719973129520006gmail-m_4385676575333567739moz-cite-prefix">On 8/11/19 9:32 PM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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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" target="_blank">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" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:11
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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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