Word: mocassins
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...blue lake called Hetch Hetchy. Without Hetch Hetchy, San Franciscans would sometimes have gone waterless; so would many a farm in the valley between, a land rainless four months or more a year. Fifteen years ago San Franciscans put their famous reservoir to another use. At Mocassin Creek near the valley floor they built turbines, harnessed nearly 100,000 horsepower of electricity. City-owned transmission lines carry the power to Newark near San Francisco Bay. There, 27 miles from Nob Hill, the power leaves the city's hands, enters those of big Pacific Gas & Electric, which sells San Franciscans...
...full flow the completed system will supply 400,000,000 gal. per day. The first planners did not foresee the vast potential electric power which would lie in Hetch Hetchy water's rush down from the Sierras. But already the $7,000,000 Mocassin Power House has returned $15,000,000 in revenues, is expected to earn $2,000,000 per year. Engineer. Last week Michael Maurice
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