WATER-POWER ON NATIONAL FORESTS 



IN the fiscal year 1916, says Henry S. Graves, Chief of 

 the Forest Service, in his annual report, twenty new 

 water-power projects which utilize National Forest 

 land began operation. This was an increase of eighteen 



POWER HOUSE NO. 2. PACIFIC LIGHT & POWER CORPORATION 



This and 



This plant has an installation of 47.000 horsepower which will eventually be increased to 94,000. 

 another power house of the same size and owned by the same company are on the Sierra National Forest, California 

 They are the first units in an ultimate development of about 250,000 horsepower, all on the Sierra National Forest 

 constructed and operating under a revocable permit issued by the Secretary of Agriculture on July 16, 1913 



and one-half per cent in the total 

 number. In the fiscal year 1915 

 the number of new projects which 

 began operation was twelve. 

 Forty-two per cent of the total 

 developed water-power of the 

 United States utilize National 

 Forest land, the Forest Service 

 figures show. 



i Development of relatively 

 small projects is particularly in 

 evidence, according to Mr. 

 Graves, in the Rocky Mountain 

 States. California leads in the 

 amount of power under permit 

 and in operation. The number of 

 transmission line permits in effect 

 was increased by thirteen during 

 the year. The forty applications 

 for power-project permits received 

 in 1916included eight from Alaska 

 a notable evidence, according 

 to the report, of increased local 

 interest in power development on 

 National Forest lands there. 

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Concerning the report prepared by the Forest Service in 

 response to a resolution of the Senate calling upon the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture for information regarding the owner- 

 ship and control of water-power sites and any facts bearing 

 on the question as to the existence 

 of a monopoly in the ownership 

 and control of hydroelectric power 

 in the United States, Mr. Graves 

 says: "This report presented in 

 far greater detail than has ever 

 been attempted before, an exhaus- 

 tive analysis of the general power 

 situation. It showed a marked 

 concentration of definite and 

 complete control of a large per- 

 centage of developed water power 

 by a very few companies. Data 

 presented regarding interrelation- 

 ships through common directors 

 and principal officers indicated a 

 marked tendency toward asso- 

 ciation or community of interests, 

 particularly between the prin- 

 cipal holding companies. The 

 movement toward concentration 

 in commercial central stations of 

 all the primary power employed 

 in the electrical industries and 

 in manufactures was found in all 

 sections of the United States, the 



A POWER HOUSE ON THE INYO NATIONAL FOREST 



This is the No, 6 power house of the Nevada-California Power Company on Bishop Creek, Inyo National 



Forest, California 



