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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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Construction of a new Alpine water power plant near Martigny, Valais, to supply electricity to Swiss federal railways, with a dam costing 20 million francs and total project over 60 million, producing 60,000 horsepower, completion in 1926.
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Geneva, Oct. 22.—A new water power plant is being constructed in the Alps at an altitude of 6,233 feet near Martigny, Canton of Valais, for the purpose of supplying electric energy to the Swiss federal railways.
A dam is being built across the Barberine cascade, whose waters flow into the River Rhone, to form an artificial lake of 40,000,000 cubic metres. The cost of the dam will be 20,000,000 Swiss francs, but with the electric installation the amount will be run over 60,000,000 francs. A total energy of 60,000 horsepower will be supplied.
The work will be finished in 1926. It goes forward slowly, for at this high altitude the cold and the snow permit of only 100 working days a year.
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Alps Near Martigny, Canton Of Valais
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Oct. 22
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the work will be finished in 1926. a total energy of 60,000 horsepower will be supplied.
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A new water power plant is being constructed in the Alps at an altitude of 6,233 feet near Martigny, Canton of Valais, for the purpose of supplying electric energy to the Swiss federal railways. A dam is being built across the Barberine cascade, whose waters flow into the River Rhone, to form an artificial lake of 40,000,000 cubic metres. The cost of the dam will be 20,000,000 Swiss francs, but with the electric installation the amount will be run over 60,000,000 francs. The work will be finished in 1926. It goes forward slowly, for at this high altitude the cold and the snow permit of only 100 working days a year.