Ames power plant, San Miguel County, Colorado [021]: Men carrying pipe, 1890s

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Title Ames power plant, San Miguel County, Colorado [021]: Men carrying pipe, 1890s
Photo Number P0206add2n01_09_010
Description Scan of a photo of the Ames plant with men carrying pipe
Date 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900
Textual Date 1890s
Keywords Rocky Mountain Power; Ames; Colorado; Personnel; Pipe
Subject Hydroelectric power plants--Colorado--Ames--Photographs; Ames (Colo.)--Photographs
Spatial Coverage Ames (Colo.); San Miguel County (Colo.)
Latitude 37.864583
Longitude -107.881692
Additional Information The Ames hydroelectric generating 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. Flumes, and later penstocks (steel pipes), brought water from Trout Lake and Lake Hope, located to the south up Lake Fork. Howards Fork, to the east, supplied additional water. 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 400 dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF.
ARK ark:/87278/s6ff4j22
Setname uum_map
ID 985407
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ff4j22
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