| Title |
Western Colorado Power Company Montrose steam-electric station, November 1915 |
| Photo Number |
P0206add2n10_19_001 |
| Description |
Scan of photograph of Western Colorado Power Company Montrose steam-electric station, November 1915 |
| Date |
1915-11 |
| Textual Date |
November 1915 |
| Keywords |
Utah Power and Light Company; Rocky Mountain Power; Western Colorado Power Company; Public utilities; Electric Utilities; Complexes; Industrial complexes; Power plants; Steam power plants; Chimneys; Smokestacks; Transformers |
| Subject |
Steam power plants--Colorado--Montrose--Photographs; Coal-fired power plants--Colorado--Montrose--Photographs; Western Colorado Power Company--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Montrose (Colo.); Montrose County (Colo.) |
| Latitude |
38.4667 |
| Longitude |
-107.8667 |
| Additional Information |
The steam station was built in 1908 by the Montrose Electric Light and Power Company. In 1914, that company became part of the Western Colorado Power Company, which had its headquarters at Montrose. Western Colorado Power Company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Utah Power and Light Company (organized in 1912). Western Colorado Power Company was sold in May of 1975 to a group of rural electric cooperatives in the region |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0206 Rocky Mountain Power Company Photograph Collection |
| Collection Name |
Rocky Mountain Power Company |
| Rights |
 |
| Type |
Image |
| Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, 24-bit color at 600 ppi. Archival file is uncompressed TIF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6vx2fvx |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
1000701 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vx2fvx |
