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Eastern Sierra Nevada Power Plant Construction California Electric Power Corporation Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. Southern Sierras Power Company Supporting Facilities Supplies and Equipment Transportation The Golden Princess |
 Main Substation of the Southern Sierras Power Company - San Bernardino, CA This is the southern terminus of the 238 mile steel tower transmission line from the Control Station on Bishop Creek. Here current is received from four sources for distribution - from the eleven hydro plants in the North; from the San Bernardino steam-electric generating plant, from the interconnections with the Southern California Edison Company's system, and from the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company through the Rincon interconnection. Power is distributed here to all points on the System in Southern California and for resale in Arizona and Lower California. This station was completed in 1927 |
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All photos and text are from The Huntington Library Digital Collection unless otherwise noted |
Southern Sierra Power Company Supporting Facilities |
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 Abelour Ranch house - Hillside Water Company This is the residence of the Ranch Manager and the headquarters of our ranch operations in Inyo and Mono Counties. |
 Abelour Ranch ranch dwelling |
 Abelour Ranch ranch dwelling |
 Abelour Ranch ranch hog shed |
 Abelour Ranch ranch feed barn |
 Abelour Ranch ranch stables |
 Abelour Ranch ranch repair shop |
 Abelour Ranch ranch bunk house |
 Abelour Ranch ranch repair grain silos |
 Abelour Ranch ranch corn crib |
 Cain Ranch - Cain Irrigation Company Beef cattle on summer range on the Cain Ranch. Over 1000 head of cattle are in the herd shown in this photograph. The ranch is irrigated with water impounded at Grant Lake Reservoir, below the Rush Creek Power Plant. |
 Cain Ranch clubhouse and ranch headquarters |
 Cain Ranch private garage |
 Cain Ranch storage building |
 Cain Ranch sawmill |
 Cain Ranch implement shed |
 Red Hill Ranch dwelling |
 Red Hill Ranch Granary |
 Red Hill Ranch dwelling |
 Turner Ranch Granary |
 Turner Ranch Dwelling |
 South Hillside Ranch Dwelling |
 Warehouse at the SPNG depot at Laws, CA |
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 Warehouse at the SPNG depot at Laws, CA |
 SPNG gantry at Benton, CA |
 Bishop, CA office |
 Bishop, CA office interior |
 Big Pine, CA office |
 Big Pine, CA office |
 Independence telephone exchange |
 Bishop Switch House |
 Big Pine automatic telephone exchange |
 Independence office |
 Lone Pine telegraph office |
 Storage warehouse in Lone Pine |
 Warehouse on the SP at Lone Pine, CA |
 Warehouse on the SP at Lone Pine, CA |
 Bishop Creek warehouse |
 Warehouse at Benton, CA |
 Wives supporting their husbands in one of the construction camps |
 Packard Biplane The owner and pilot was D. E. McDaneld of Pasadena who was a Packard dealer and early Pacific Coast pilot. The other owner of NC298 Curtiss JN-6H was Boyd Monteith Shelton. In 1927 they had a firm based out of Arcadia that did Fairchild Aerial Mapping surveys. Shelton was primary pilot. (Hal Eaton) McDaneld & Shelton also took aerial shots and ferried materials for motion pictures. Boyd also was a pilot in Al Wilson's stunt crew in "The Cloud Riders" in 1925. (Hal Eaton) |
 Packard Biplane |
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 Main exchange and office of the Interstate Telegraph Company - Bishop, CA 1923 |
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Transporting Equipment & Materials to Powerhouses |
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 Plant equipment arriving by rail on the SPNG at Laws |
 Hauling a piece of equipment to one Bishop Creek Plants by wagon |
 Plant equipment arriving by rail on the SPNG at Laws |
 Hauling sections of steel pipe by mule team |
 Accident at a bridge crossing. |
 Hauling generator section up Bishop Creek |
 Hauling sections of steel pipe by mule team up Bishop Creek |
 Crashed wagon between plants #3 and #4 |
 24 mule team hauling / pushing power house equipment up a Bishop Creek steep incline |
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 16 horse team hauling a transformer |
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 Transporting cement by truck |
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 Transporting a generator by truck |
 Hauling a load of hay for the livestock |
 Transporting a transformer by tractor |
 Transporting 55' long power poles for transmission lines. |
 Transporting 55' long power poles for transmission lines. |
 Transporting 55' long power poles for transmission lines. |
 Hauling steel pipe to the powerhouses |
 On the road between Laws and Benton |
 Southern Sierras Power Company truck |
 Transporting a 7.5 ton transformer to one of the powerhouses |
 One of six caterpillar engines hauling freight 56 miles from Benton to Silver Lake |
 Fleet of trucks ready for work |
 Trucker on his way to Mono Lake with a load of cement and steel pipe |
 Lingo Brothers Mountain & Desert flatbed truck with a load of cement |
 Trucker on his way to Mono Lake with a load of cement and steel pipe |
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 Loading up with a truckload of cement |
 Duplex truck with a tractor loaded on the back |
 Two packers with their strings of mules near Mono Lake |
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 Transformer sled and trucks |
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 Truck with a load of lumber |
 Group of men working on a makeshift road |
 Men working on intake dam |
 Construction workers taking a break |
 Duplex truck with a load of cement |
 Workers taking a break from picking up wooden planks |
 Truck on it's way from Benton with a load of steel pipe and cement |
 Truck hauling transmission line towers |
 Truck hauling transmission line towers |
 Nevada Power Mining and Milling Company - Line construction crews leaving Bishop, CAA in the winter |
 01/23 Steam Donkey in operation lifting telephone poles for transmission lines. June Lake area - circa 1915 (Photo courtesy Huntington Digital Archives) |
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Shooting "The Golden Princess" (1923) on Bishop Creek |
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 Filming the silent movie "The Golden Princess" on Bishop Creek during construction of the Bishop Creek Powerhouses |
 Filming the silent movie "The Golden Princess" on Bishop Creek during construction of the Bishop Creek Powerhouses |
 Cabin used in the movie The Golden Princess |
 Stagecoach used in the movie The Golden Princess |
 The Golden Princess (Photo courtesy of eBay) |
 The Golden Princess (Photo Internet Movie Database) |
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Big Pine Citizen Newspaper |
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A Thousand Acres of Nothing - 'Aim Morhardt and Lee Early | |
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Irene Cuffe | |
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More Eastern Sierra Nevada Power Plant Construction |
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A Trip Through the California Sierras - 1904 |
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Monache Rodeo |
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