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- Edison Electric Light Company (Salida, Colo.)
- On November 27, 1887, the Edison Electric Light Company lighted the first place in Salida. The Salida Mail reported: ‘The incandescent lamps that were lighted on F St. Bridge last evening caused much surprise on account of the brilliantlight that covered such a wide field.’ The process had begun earlier that year in April, when the city council approved H.H. Brown, esquire, to build a power plant in town. An ordinance was then filed in May 1887 by Salida’s Board of Trustees stating the conditions for the plant to proceed. The plan was to light sections of F Street, and some of the outer lying streets, and then the Denver & Rio Grande railroad yards and the round house, the railroad depot and the Monte Cristo Hotel. In August, officers were elected to the board of the company: Superintendent Robert M. Ridgway, who worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was elected president. By October, there was a large crew working on the plant on Sackett Ave. A 75 foot smoke stack was installed and the electric light lamps had arrived in town. The original 28 ft. square frame building had a boiler room, one 80 horsepower engine, and two incandescent dynamos, with a capacity for 750 incandescent lights. The first building to have electric light in Salida was the Monte Cristo,Salida ’s railroad hotel. In December of 1887: ‘The dining room of the Monte Cristo was brilliantly lighted up for the first time last Wednesday evening by electricity. 20 twenty-four candle power incandescent lamps were in use and gave the utmost satisfaction.’ In 1890, two new Edison dynamos were in use. And by the late 1890s, a brick building replaced the wooden structure, which is what we see at the Steamplant Theater today.
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- Elizondo sheep ranching outfit (Colorado and Utah)
- A sheep ranching outfit that operated primarily in Westwater, Utah in the early Twentieth century. Emmett Elizondo, a former Basque sheepherder for other ranchers, was the owner.