| Title |
Ames power plant, San Miguel County, Colorado [003]: Lake Trout |
| Photo Number |
p0206gn_n42_013 |
| Description |
Scan of glass plate negative showing "Trout Lake, Elevation 9800 ft.," located near Lizard Pass south of Telluride in San Miguel County, Colorado. Looking southeast up Lake Fork |
| Date |
1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920 |
| Textual Date |
circa 1915 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain Power; Trout Lake; Telluride; Colorado |
| Subject |
Trout Lake (Colo.)--Photographs; Lakes--Colorado--San Miguel County--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Trout Lake (San Miguel County, Colo.); San Miguel County (Colo.) |
| Latitude |
37.829569 |
| Longitude |
-107.888842 |
| Additional Information |
Trout Lake was dammed to provide additional water storage for the Ames hydroelectric power plant. The Ames plant had its beginnings when L.L. Nunn installed a Westinghouse electric generator and motor in the winter of 1890-91 on the South Fork of the San Miguel River to provide electricity to the Gold King Mine stamp mill, located 2.6 miles away. This was the first commercial power system to use alternating current. A powerhouse was built in 1895 by Nunn's Telluride Power Company, to be replaced by a new plant in 1905-06. Telluride Power later became part of Western Colorado Power Company, a subsidiary of Utah Power & Light (predecessor of Rocky Mountain Power). The hydroelectric plant, still in operation today, has been owned by Public Service Company, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, since 1992. |
| 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, RGB, at 2000 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6km03f2 |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
984539 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6km03f2 |
