Collins, George2007-01-032022-02-032007-01-032022-02-03https://hdl.handle.net/11124/9970Electric Station Idaho Spgs.Date scanned: 2000-10-19.Identifier: SC732.Related photographs: SC616, SC731, SC799.Unmounted; text on verso.Held in the Russell L. and Lyn Wood Mining History Archive, Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines.Photograph showing the Gem Steam Electric Plant and its transformer house and warehouses. The Gem Steam Electric Plant and the Gem Mining Company Hydroelectric Plant, which was located along Clear Creek two miles east of Idaho Springs, supplied electricity to the Gem Company Mills in Idaho Springs and to the Gem Mine in Gilson Gulch. The Gem Steam Electric Plant also supplied part of Idaho Springs with electricity and steam for heating. In 1901 the Cascade Electric Company opened in Idaho Springs and a rate war quickly broke out, resulting in 95 percent of the houses in Idaho Springs having electricity by 1903. A series of acquisitions and mergers took place among the electric companies operating in Clear Creek County, and when the Big Five sold its interest in the Gem Mining Company, the Gem Steam Electric Company discontinued service and was taken over by Cascade Electric. In 1906, the Cascade Electric Company and the United Lighting and Power Company were acquired by th=500 \\Rights management statement available at: http://library.mines.edu/digital/rights.htmlGem Mining CompanyPower plantsScenes, river and streamStillImage