dogdayz
01-28-2021, 03:31 PM
Dawson City, Yukon in 1898.
Note all the electrical poles and wiring. Dawson was well electrified many years before cities in the south. They had a steam generating plant that utilized three 150 hp marine boilers powering a Westinghouse turbine and burned fourteen cords of wood per day.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Woman_arriving_in_the_streets_of_Dawson_with_a_dog _team_carrying_her_luggage%2C_Yukon_Territory%2C_1 898_%28HEGG_351%29.jpeg
Note all the electrical poles and wiring. Dawson was well electrified many years before cities in the south. They had a steam generating plant that utilized three 150 hp marine boilers powering a Westinghouse turbine and burned fourteen cords of wood per day.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Woman_arriving_in_the_streets_of_Dawson_with_a_dog _team_carrying_her_luggage%2C_Yukon_Territory%2C_1 898_%28HEGG_351%29.jpeg