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,487 ]6 METROPOLITAN W..\TER D]STRICT placed in regular service at 12 :01 a,m., January 1, 1946, During the remaining five months of the Boulder operating year 126,197,767 kilowatthours were transmitted for the Edison Com- pany, and $68,927,39, or 76,8 per cent of the joint cost during the period, was paid by the Edison Company. Installation by Stone & Webster for the Edison Company of a 230-kv oil circuit breaker at Camino in the Camino-Gene branch of the transmission line was nearly completed at the end of the fiscal year, The Edison and District telephone systems were interconnected through the switch- board at the La Verne softening and filtration plant, The 1945 power contracts relieve the District of all carrying charges for unused Boulder energy after 1950 and guarantee the District a substantial income from the sale of Parker energy and the rental of the District's transmission line and the generating equipment assigned to the District's service at Boulder Dam. The District retains its right to use as needed Boulder and Parker power sufficient to pump approximately 750,000 acre feet per year, At the close of the fiscal year negotiations were in progress for the extension of the power supply to the Basic Magnesium project after the termination of the 1945 agreement on May 31, 1946, The unexpectedly great demand for power following the end of World War II raised the question of additional generating capacity at Boulder Dam, and studies of various plans for new units and the permanent disposition of unit N7 were requested of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. I Boulder energy for .4.,-izona Electric energy furnished by the City of Los Angeles and the Southern California Edison Company, Limited, to relieve a power shortage in Arizona is being generated on equipment in Boulder power plant assigned to the service of the District, and transmitted over the District's line from Boulder to Parker Dam under a one- year contract terminating May 31, 1947, For generation and transmission of the City's share (one-half) of the energy furnished, the District receives 0.83 mill per kilowatthour, a part of which is credited to the Edison Company as earnings of facilities used jointly, The charges paid by the Edison Company are at the rate of 0.23 mill per kilowatthour, in addition to payment under the District-Edison Transmission Contract and the 1945 Collateral Contract of a proportionate part of the net cost of jointly-used facilities. Under this contract 3,414,252 kilowatthours were de.