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<br />Q')0921 <br /> <br />AHXANSAS RIVER VAu.gy <br /> <br />PCW~R <br /> <br />./ <br /> <br />~he electric power industries i~ the State of Color~do up to about <br /> <br /> <br />1905 had been de.veloped in metal mining districts and in a nunber of tCt'ins <br /> <br /> <br />where sro~ll pl~nts were installed by private c~panies who supplied libhting <br /> <br /> <br />to the local co:nmunity. Laad7ille was the second town in the sta.te to have <br /> <br /> <br />eleotric liGhts. These were arc lights installed in 1683. <br /> <br /> <br />The most intensive electrical develDp~nt in the state occurred <br /> <br /> <br />.fran 1905 to 1915. In this dec!l.de the gro....th of the industry changed from <br /> <br /> <br />individ<.lal mining and town plnnts to that of the interconne~ted trnnsmission <br /> <br /> <br />system. The Southern Colorado Power Company and the Trinidad Electric Trans- <br /> <br />miBsi~ Railway nnd Gas COmpany were formed in the Arkansas Valley during <br /> <br />this pe:-iod. <br />The Southern Colo!"!~do Power Coo.pany developed froIll the Pueblo Street <br /> <br /> <br />Railway Co'llpany, f'o!":ned in l~79. The Arknru:as Vnlley Railw&l Libht and Power <br /> <br /> <br />Company was forIlled in 1911 from the Pueb1':) and Suburban Traction and Lighting <br /> <br /> <br />:OO1pany and the Color9do Light B...."1d POIier Co:npany, bringing together a dozen <br /> <br /> <br />predeoessor companies_ The Arkansas Valley Rai 1v1ay Light and POl'ier CO!:Jpany <br /> <br /> <br />became the Southern ':::olorad':) Pm"ler COI"'.PUll in 1922. <br /> <br /> <br />The Trinidad Electric Transmission Railway and G~s Company was <br /> <br /> <br />formed in 1911, consol~dating steaIll plant 5yste~s built in 1907 at Trinidad. <br /> <br /> <br />V !I~sti:lgs and Walsenburg_ The Bastings plant nas been abandoned, pOViElr now <br /> <br /> <br />being supplied by the plents at T:dnidad !lm Vlalsenburg. <br /> <br /> <br />The accO!';1p'1UJ-ing u.n.? shows the loo,"ltion of' the power pln.nts and <br /> <br />transmission S'Jstems in the Arka.ns~s River basi!'! nt the present time. <br />