Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 60

OAKLAND TRIBUNE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1935 TRAINS FOR GREAT BAY BRIDGE ARE NOW BEING BUILT THE NEW. AND THE OLD IN EASTBAY TRANSPORTATION STREAMLINED ELECTRIC MIDI STBEETiSIlL. BUILT FDR TRAf FIG OVEfl BRIDGE There won't be room on the bridge ary and fan out Broadway and for Old Dobbin. Telegraph to 40th Street It was a single track, standard gauge road. That company was' the first of many horse-car companies which were formed, all of which had a varying existence and all of which played a part in the -development of Metropolitan Oakland.

FIRST ELECTRIC CARS Old Dobbin and nU felloWto. gether with steam trains, provided the transportation for Mr. and Mrs. Oakland until May 15, 1891, when the- Oakland and Berkeley Rapid Transit Company came into operating existence and the region had its first electric street car service. -v There won't have to be, for when rail traffic opens in December next year electricity will nrdvide the motive power, not the horses which provide Oakland's first street car service in 1869.

The Key System will ake commuters and other travel from all parts of Metropolitan Oakland ecross' the bridge in new semi- streamline, articulated trains, construction of which was ordered some time These modern trains will be a far try from the small cars, with a horse plodding along in front, which became the mass transportation system in 1869, when Oakland's population was 10,000 and a far cry," too, from the first electric street cars which went into service, in 1891. 4 I The Oakland Dally Evening Trjb4 une oi tnai aaie sam: "Today the electric motor road connecting this city with Berkeley is in complete running order and Oakland will begin to get the bene 'f i II mi I imm jA yawiuM.yy m-w rn- iillllllllii 'VvSAi 1 IP -vi fc, J.l'. MtiMW Bf 1M PI WWW 1 1 i n.iw HWW tfi I Hi Winn ml i V'" mm, i dpi i j-- 's-j IflH fits to be derived from one of the greatest improvements which pri-, vate enterprises has yet attempted Jh this vicinity. "For over a year a large force of workmen has been engaged in laying tracks, erecting poles, putting up substantial buildings, stringing wires and arranging machinery, until now everything is in rtadi-ness for the operation to begin. Alameda County has its' first electric road." GALA DAY The article went on to describe the road as "as well equipped as any the world" and to give a graphic description of the gala day of 45 years ago, a word picture interesting when compared with this week's program.

4 "It was just 5:35 o'clock this morning when the pioneer regular service car came swinging put from the big car house at the corner tl 4'ith and Grove streets and as it turned and sped on toward Oakland with all the regularity of a well-tried machine. 32SU-lCi2nt Coleman and his men braced up to meet the probable disasters o( the first day's running. "Such a time -is always eventful in the history of a new line, especially when the motive power is electricity, for there are. many possibilities in the shape of breaks, non-working of switches and curves, failure of. current and so on.

There were celebrations here when the first horse-car and later the first electric car went into ser? vice, just as there are' this week with the "first" bridge-crossing automobile Bnd as there will be in a year with the first trans-bay trams. GREAT DIFFERENCE But what 4 filiierence Those fetes of yesteryear and those of today. That attending the open- ing of the horse-car- line wasn't long after the days they hunted wild ducks at 14th Street and Broadway and didn't make enough impression on the -historians for them to record it. J' The celebration "the opening of the electric railway was quite a thing, with some customers worrying about the electricity stopping their watches and others cer-. tain that riding the cars was 'a surt cure for rheumatism." The first horse-car line had its beginnings on paper in 1864, when an application was filed for a franchise for A line on Broadway and on out Oakland's City Charter, however, contained no provision permitting the granting of such a franchise and the matter had to be delayed 1 until the State Legislature changed the charter, The Oakland Railroad Company undertook operation of a horse-car service, during', the latter part of 1869.

The line started at the Estu- r(jsMSMaMaMaaaa CD A is Cam 1 1 0 1867 -1936 5 1. Oakland commuters. (Center left) A scene familiar to early resi way looking north, in 1873. (Lower right) The Oakland, Brooklyn and Fruitvale tramway, How far transportation has progressed since 'the early days, both in speed and comfort, is vividly demonstrated by these viejvi. 1 he old and the new are pictured above.

(Upper left) modern passenger but of the Key System during a tour of inspection of the bridge. (Upper right) Qne of llief streamlined trains now under con-itruction Vil provide faaf transportation for San Francitco and i dents of the Easibay, the Broadway-Telegraph Avenue limited. (Right center) One of the first electric cars on the Oakland-Berkeley electric line. (Lower The busy corner of Twelfth and Broad- BridgeServes Regiqn of Central Valley Water Project 160 feet above sea level and con-, the northern San Joaquin Valley, veyed. to a point about 150 miles By means of this exchange the en-south ot the delta.

The lower part tire flow of the San Joaquin River ot this pumping system will utilize will be made available for i i ri a. transmission line about 200 miles the natural channel of the San ana regulation itni xvv By. CLARENCE H. BREUNER, Chairman Central Valley Water Project Committee, Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. long extending Sacramento Valley This is tbeday of huge public works ia California! Completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which will make more ac-oessibleothe great interior Valleys of the State is followed by the begin 3 I -the second borage unit ot the Jhf rJoauln Wver.

the plan provid ng oiecthom whIcg reguiated Bi.P-r of the NcXern for lWiM of damS nd Pumping pile wiU be conveyed to the arras down through the rff 'OF ALL KINDS VtA ISAFETYiS FUSE Antloch, which plants. The provision ot locks in bt deficient water supply in the Valley win k.n r.a fiftwn thMft rjRtni will make it DOBSible to southern San Joaquin ning of construction on one of the' 'kVM iiwn yvtww I the Sacramento River providing i restore commercial navigation on a sufficient" water to maintain de-1 congiderable aeciioa the San through two large canals, one extending north for a few miles an 1 the largest extending southerly 1 miles to a point near Bakersficld Kern County." The project, when completed, involves an estimated capital xr un commercial navigation and a full Joaquin i River. The wa er pumped from the delta through the San Joaquin pumping system will be used to replace San Joaquin, River water now utilized for irrigation in diture of about $170,000,000. largest and most important water conservation projects in the West-the Central Valley Project of California. Near the foot of the rugged forested terrain crowned by towering snow-clad Mount Shasta, preliminary operations are now under way In preparation for the construction Work on the principal storage unit of this project Kennett Reservoir.

A huge masonry dam, comparable in size to the recently completed Boulder Canyon Dam, is to be erected 'in the harrow gorge in the Sacramento River Canyoaear the- old mining town of Kennett. This dam will control and conserve the run-off from trie energy. The area which will be served directly by the project is some 500 miles long by 40 miles wide, "stretching from Redding on the north to Bakersficld on the south and embracing about 20,000 square1 miles. It contains about 3,000,000 acres, of irrigated lands nearly 60 per cent of the irrigated area within the State. This great interior valley of California with its extensive agricultural and related lndustiral activities is the back country of the metropolitan and industrial areas centering about San Frandsco Bay findXos Angeles, Kennett Reservoir will be operated for many useful purposes.

A portion of the reserypir capacity during the period of tfte year when floods occur will be reserved for controlling floods and thus provide a substantial degree of flood protection for the lands bordering the Sacramento River. Water released from the reservoir will be first passed through hydrO-elcctricunIts 000,000 to carry on construction dur-ing the coming year. Additional appropriations will be made by Congress to carry "on the work progressively. The United States Bureau of Reclamation has been designated as the construction agency. The bureau has been actively engaged on the preliminary work of the project for some six months or more Walker R.

Young, formerly construction engineer in chafge of Boulder Dam, as construction engineer In charge of the Central Valley Project. The" Water Project Authority of the State of California which was created by the Central Valley Project Act of 1933, has been diligently engaged in cooperating with the Bureau of Reclamation on many important phases of the project. The technical work of the Water Project Authority is being handled through the State engineer and his staff ot the Division of Water Resources fit (EMUii 1667) supply for all of the lands now irrigated from the Sacramento River and amplequantities for municipal and industrial use as well-It will provide a flow into the- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta sufficient to supply its full water demands and prevent salt water from entering; 'the Delta channels; an additional supply for municipal, agricultural and Industrial us la the upper bay area which will conveyed from the delta by the Contra Costa Conduit; and finally, a supply above all of these requirements for conveyance to the areas of water shortage in the San Joaquin Valley. A new connecting channel be 6650 square miles of mountain water JThis pidneer industry of the bay sheds of the upper Sacramento River and its tributaries, including the Pitt River. But before actual construction ot the dam can be started, some 35 miles of the main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad along the Sacramento River which will 'be tween the Sacramento River 'and the San Joaquin.

River within the of' about 300,000 horsepower in- submerged by the reservoir must the Department of Public Works. bepiadJ district congratulates the people, of Oakland and San Francisco upon completion of the monumental. San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. to provide for the necessary divi wijl be re-regulated at an afterbay at the head, as the key unit, of the sion of the regulated flow entering the aelto from the Sacramento River. The supply ot the San Joaquin Valley will be Transported from the delta by the San Joaquin pumping system by which the water will be lifted in successive stages to a total elevation of about dam a few miles downstream and pasted through a second hydroelectric plant of about 60,000 horsepower.

These power plants' will be capable of generating on the average of about one billion and a half kilowatt hours annually and the power will be conveyed over a ground. The dam foundation must be explored in detail before preparing final plans and specifications. These preliminary features of the work are now well under way as a part of the first year's program of construction. On November 16, 1935, an executive order was Issued by the President of the United States allocating $15,000,000 from the Emergency Re entire project which provides a comprehensive plan of water supply development and utilization of the Sixramento and San Joaquin Rivers. The primary objective of this project is to provide urgently needed water supplies for irrigation, do-mestic and Industrial use for.

the1 existing agricultural, industrial and municipal developments throughout 1 lief Appropriation of 1935, to start the Sacramento and San Joaquin construction of the Subse-j Valleys and in the upper San Fran- cisco Bay region. In addition, it quently, this has been reduced to $8,100,000 but at the last session, Congress appropriated $6,900,000 for will provide for improvement of navigation, increased flood control and, incidentally, the generation of a substantial output of hydro-elec- continuation of the project. As a fir result, there is now available "The Friendly tmk" FARMERS AND MERCHANTS SAVINGS BANK Franklin it Thirteenth Street A Savings Bank of strength and character. Home owned. Operated under the same and by the same management for 45 years.

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