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wUNIVERSITY U BRARIESUNIVERSITY of WASHI NGTONSpe ial Colle tionsPuget Sound Power and Light Company recordsInventoryAccession No: 2250-001Special Collections DivisionUniversity of Washington LibrariesBox 352900Seattle, Washington, 98195-2900USA(206) 543-1929This document forms part of the Guide to the Puget Sound Power and Light Company Records. Tofind out more about the history, context, arrangement, availability and restrictions on thiscollection, click on the following /permalink/PugetSoundPowerLight2068 2250 5689/Special Collections home page: earch Collection Guides: ch
PUGET SOUND POWER & LIGHT COMPANY#2250GuideOrganizational HistoryOn October 19, 1885 the Seattle Electric Company, the earliest predecessor of the present Puget Sound Power & Light Company, was organized.It began generating electricity on March 22, 1886.During the next tenyears as many as 30 small electric companies operated within Seattle, butmost were lost to financial insolvency and merger by 1899.During thissame period the Stone & Webster Service Corporation was formed and began toprovide management for small utilities nationwide.In 1899 Stone & Websterwas engaged to study the competitive situation in Seattle.The result wasa consolidation in 1900 which placed most of the power, light and railway-services in Seattle under the management of the newly organized SeattleElectric Company and thus established the city's first unified electricsystem.The increasing electrical demands of the following decade necessi-tated further mergers among the more than 50 separate utilities in thePuget Sound region, from which emerged five major operating companies.On July 8, 1912 Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power came into existenceand was incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, under the managementof Stone & Webster.The properties purchased and consolidated to form PugetSound Traction, Light & Power included those of the five major power compa-,nies in the region:The Seattle Electric Company, Seattle-Tacoma PowerCompany, Pacific Coast Power Company, Puget Sound Power Company, and WhatcomCounty Railroad&Light Company.The connection of these separate facilitiesand territories was the beginning of the first r egional power service inWestern Washington.Jacob Furth, Seattle banker, railway organizer and president of SeattleElectric Company served as president of the company until his death in 1914.
2He was succeeded by A. W. Leonard, who directed the company until 1931,when it became a subsidiary of Engineers Public Service Company.From1931 until 1959 PSP&L was led by Frank McLaughlin.The company's name was changed to Puget Sound Power & Light in 1920following the sale of the Seattle street railway system to the City.Duringthe decade of the 1920's the company acquired additional power companiesand expanded to serve 19 counties.Two major companies acquired in 1924were the North Coast Power Company in southwest Washington and WashingtonCoast Utilities in central and western Washington.In the 18 years followingits incorporation, PSP&L absorbed 128 separate companies.Puget also expanded its rail service during the early 1920's.A stageline was developed, which by 1924 furnished most of the interurban railwayservice in the Puget Sound region.The company also operated the streetrailway sys.terns in Bellingham, Everett, Tacoma, Olympia, Chehalis, Centraliaand Vancouver, Washington.With the demise of electric transportation,however, Puget decided to concentrate on the sale of electricity and in 1947sold its subsidiary, North. Coast Transportation Company, to the GreyhoundCorporation.The 1930's marked the turning point in the company's expansion.In1930 the State Legislature passed a Public Utility District law which grantedPUD's the power to condemn privately owned electric property.For the next20 years PSP&L was continually involved in litigation with PUD's and wasforced to sell much of its distribution system.The first effective condem-nation suit was that of Clallam County in 1944.In 1948 the company soldproperties in Cowlitz, Mason, Chelan, Grant, Douglas, Lewis, Pacific andGrays Harbor Counties.Its large territory in Snohomish County was sold in1949, and in 1951 its Seattle properties were sold to City Light.In theearly 1950 1 s Puget considered a plan to sell its remaining properties to the
3combined PUD's and in 1953 resisted a merger with Washington Water PowerCompany.The 1940's produced additional legal setbacks for PSP&L.In 1940Federal Power Connnission hearings investigated the political expendituresof five power companies, including PSP&L.The hearings determined that theutilities, during the period 1935-40, had spent large sums of money tofurther their political interests and influence public opinion whilecharging some of these expenses to operating costs.The 1935 Public Utility Holding Act forced the breakup of large utilityholding companies such as Engineers Public Service Company.PSP&L was forcedto reorganize and recapitalize and in 1943 severed its connection withEngineers Public Service Company.In 1960 Puget reincorporated in WashingtonState.Chronology of Generating Plants. (.completion dates)1898Snoqualmie Falls hydroelectric plant, first large hydro plant in thestate, originally operated by Snoqualmie Falls Power Company, (not aStone & Webster Co,) later Seattle-Tacoma Power Co.ca.1903 Electron plant, cons.tructed by Stone & Webster on the Puyallup River190,5Geo.rgetown Steam Plant, supplied Seattle Electric Company, the PugetSound Electric Railway between Seattle and Tacoma and the street1railway system of Tacoma1911White River hydro plant, built by the Pacific Coast Power Company1926Lower Baker River hydro plant1930Shuffleton Steam Plant1q:33Rock Island Dam, first to span the Columbia River1959Upper Baker River dam and hydro plant
4Notes on Source of RecordsRecords in Accession #2250 were stored in a Bellingham building ownedby PSP&L when the University acquired them in 1974.At that time Universityarchivists with the assistance of C.B. Schoeggl, former Secretary of theCompany, screened out numerous financial records before the remainingrecords were moved to Seattle.At about the same time Western WashingtonUniversity, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, acquired from PSP&Lrecords of predecessor companies involved primarily in interurban and streetrailways.A few of these firms also handled light and power operations.An inventory to these PSP&L records at WWU is available in the UW ManuscriptsSection.Notes on ArrangementThe main body of the accession are the records of Puget Sound Power &Light from 1920-1953.Records of Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power, 1912-1920, have been separated and treated as a subgroup and Seattle ElectricCompany has been sub grouped as a predeces:sor company.Because the recordsof these three companies were originally interfiled, they are organizedsimilarly.For instance, in each of the three there is a series, GENERALCORRESPONDENCE, re plant (or operations), which includes correspondence withsuppliers, associations, unions·, insurers and others,. about operations INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCE for PSP&L AND PSTLP included correspondence with ,Dn e. s erie.s)' II / T& R. DF Fie le t.o f{ es ptJ ;///) lVC G" tu; ft1 Sir) Fi -e --/ /,t}-( b s1e., C 0,-1 tt':-n,1 t.5 7}!Y'o::,r,\branch offices.A Before 1924 the branches were known by the citie in which ?1-e S 0,v1-1f It t)e dri' C. Cov0.prn'j Ci '1 o{ Pc ) e·r .f:ot,H, t{ 'Y-Cl {, h (Ii'/ i!q t- 0 1 c,/ hLt'. ,n,··su 1Jr()uj-Je{ ,::u,,/they we e headquartered: Seattle, B.ellingham, Everett' 'We\\. a,t h ' racoma//'the. l'llcun hoot r; o f 'h ::. rec·cwd.s. rA/s s--er/r's /11c/t,(des )au5,1;,1ef5 r"e.por1J L N pohTica/and Che alis. In 1924 the. compan c,h.3:ni,edq to. e;eographical districts:,,t,Cc'.)l'\0111\1 C c11J, lcd,or. v'e.lc-tfe.J evuirs 01 .A'cd ·lc.Central, Northern, Northeastern, Eastern, Southern and Southwestern,Irespectively, although the offices remained in the same cities,s.ame divisions are represented in REPORTS.These
5Most original foldering and folder headings have been retained.Likewise, subject series used by PSP&L have been retained; most includecorrespondence,In addition, one large SUBJECT SERIES, Condemnation Cases(boxes 51-83), has been expanded to include not only individual condemnationcases brought against Puget by th.e PUD's but related series as well.TheFPC hearings of 1940 investigated not only PSP&L's political expendituresbut also its expenses in contesting the Whatcom County PUD condemnationsuit,These hearings, therefore, were included in the SUBJECT SERIESCondemnation Cases,Also included are records relating to the proceedingsof the Securities & Exchange Connnission in 1941-43 in regard to Puget'srecapitalization plans.Although thes.e proceedings were not strictlyrelated to the local condemnation cases, they were grouped together becauseboth dealtwith divestitute of PSP&L operating companies and assets.Anotherlarge SUBJECT SERIES, Sale of Seattle Metropolitan Area, (boxes 91-100)concerns the negotiations between Puget and City Light which culminated inthe sale of Puget's Seattle properties to City Light in 1951.The Subgroups - PREDECESSOR COMPANIES include records of four of thefive companies which merged July 8, 1912 to form PSTLP:Seattle Electric,Seattle-Tacoma Power, Pacific Coast Power, and Puget Sound Power.Included also is a Stone & Webster subgroup, Columbia Improvement Company.The engineering section of Stone &Webster worked through Columbia ImprovementCompany on hydro construction in the Puyallup and Tacoma area. Also ivi eluded "1.Werry,Mj a s " @ : are-- edr-e.serds of smaller predecessors ofthese companies and records of companies acquired after 1912; these recordshave not yet been processed.original PSP&L inventory.They can be located by item number on the
6See also Puget Sound Power & Light Company Acc. No. 2068, files ofFrank McLaughlin, for additional material concerning the City Light rivalryand sale, proposed sale of PSP&L properties to the PUD's ca. 1953, andproposed merger with Washington Water Power Company.Discarded RecordsAs mentioned previously many financial records were not acquired alongwith the rest of the records in 1974 . During processing in 1981 and 1982certain parts of the accession were selectively sampled.Company subgroup was reduced by approximately two-thirds.correspondence with stockholders was retained.and similar records were also discarded.The SecuritiesOnly a sample ofInvoices of stock transactionsFor PSP&L and major predecessorcompanies correspondence about operations, mainly with suppliers, wassampled.The weeded correspondence was discarded and a very small voluraereclaimed by the company.Also during processing other records were appraised for their researchvalue.Many reports, appraisals, and case files were found to be duplicatesand were set aside for discard.Many legal documents, including land andbuilding leases, clippings, and pole permit maps were also set aside.Company officials reviewed these records and reclaimed 38 cartons, mainlyabstracts and other land records.They authorized the destruction of theremaining records proposed for destruction.available.A brief list of these isAltogether the Manuscripts Section retained only about half ofthe volume transferred in 1974.
7 I I' -·fPUGET SOUND POWER AND LIGHTAcc. No. 2250Table of ContentsPuget Sound Power & Light CompanyRecord Seri es. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Subject Series .13SubgroupsPUGET SOUND POWER AND LIGHT SECURITIES COMPANY . .PUGET SOUND POWER AND LIGHT SECURITIES COMPANY.ENGINEERS PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY . .PSP&L SECURITIES COMPANY. NATIONAL ELECTRIC LIGHT ANDPOWER ASSOC IAT ION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSP&L SECURITIES COMPANY. COMMUNITY CHEST. SEATTLE .PUGET SOUND TRACTION, LIGHT AND POWER .PSTLP. PREVENTION OF CABLE JERKS COMMITTEE .PSTLP. EFFICIENCY AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSTLP. SAFETY COMMITTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSTLP. CABLE CARS COMMITTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSTLP. PACIFIC COAST UTILITY ASSOCIATION .PSTLP. EMPLOYERS ASSOC IAT ION OF WASHINGTON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PSTLP. PACIFIC CLAIM AGENTS ASSOCIATION .PSTLP. PACIFIC COAST ELECTRIC RAILWAY ASSOCIATION .PSTLP. PUGET SOUND ELECTRIC EMPLOYEES BENEFICIALASSOCIATION .PSTLP. SEATTLE ELECTRIC EMPLOYEES BENEFICIALASSOC IAT ION . or CompaniesSEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY .SEATTLE-TACOMA POWER COMPANY . .PACIFIC COAST POWER COMPANY . .PUGET SOUND POWER COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .STONE AN WEBSTER (COLUMBIA IMPROVEMENT COMPANY) .1822232324
PSP&LAce. 2250Page 2Table of Contents (cont d.)1Subgroups-Predecessor CompaniesBUCKLEY ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . . . 24CASCADE POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . . 25CENTRAL OREGON IMPROVEMENT COMPANY . . . . . 25CENTRAL WASHINGTON GAS COMPANY . . . . . . 25CHELAN FALLS POWER COMPANY . . ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25CLARK COUNTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY . . . . . . 26COLUMBIA RIVER ORCHARD COMPANY . . . . . . 26CONSUMERS ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . 26EDMONDS ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . 26ENTIAT LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY. 26EVERETT RAILWAY, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . 27GRANITE FALLS ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . 27HOME ELECTRIC COMPAN . . . . . . . . . . . . 27INDEPENDENT ELECTRIC COMPANY . 27INDEPENDENT LIGHT AND WATER . 27JAMES STREET CONSTRUCTION COMPANY . . . . . . 28JIM CREEK WATER, LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . 28KEY CITY LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . 28LAKE DOROTHY IMPROVEMENT COMPANY . . . . . . . 28MONTESANO LIGHT AND WATER COMPANY . . . . . . . 28MOUNT VERNON ELECTRIC AND LIGHT . . . . . . . 29MOUNTAIN SPRING COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . 29MUTUAL ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . ,29MUTUAL LIGHT AND HEAT COMPANY . . . . . . . 30
PSP&LAcc. 2250Page 3Table of Contents, cont'd.Subgroups Predecessor CompaniesNORTH COAST POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . 30NORTH COAST TRANSPORTATION COMPANY . . . . . 30NORTHWEST ELECTRIC AND WATER WORKS . . . . . . 31NORTHWEST LIGHT AND POWER . . . . . . . . 31NORTHWEST POWER AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY . . . . 31OLYMPIA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . 31OLYMPIC POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY . . . . . . . '3'132.PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRACTION COMPANY . . . . . . . . . 32PUYALLUP ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . 33PEOPLES UTILITY COMPANY . . . . . . . 33PEOPLES CO-OP TELEPHONE COMPANY . . . . . . . 33PACIFIC ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY . . . . . . . 33SEATTLE CATARACT COMPANY . . . . . . . . . 34SEATTLE CENTRAL RAILWAY . . . . . . . 34SEATTLE EVERETT TRACTION COMPANY . . . . . . 34SEATTLE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . . 34SEATTLE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . 34SEATTLE STEAM HEAT AND POWER COMPANY . . . 34SEATTLE TACOMA TIMBER COMPANY . 35SILVERDALE LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . 35SKAGIT POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . 35
PSP&LAcc. 2250Page 4Table of Contents, cont'd.PageSNOQUALMIE FALLS POWER COMPANY . 35SNOQUALMIE FALLS AND WHITE RIVER POWER COMPANY . . 36SOUTH B'END ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . 36TACOMA BUS COMPANY .c1t 'Clfl01 l' ·w«:i36TACOMA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY . . . 3610 er.o 111TACOMA CATARACT COMPANY . . . . 36TENINO WATER COMPANY 37TWIN CITY LIGHT AND TRACTION COMPANY . . 37UNION ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . . . · . · 37VASHON LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . 37VANCOUVER WATER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . 38WASHINGTON COAST UTILITIES . . rn 38WALLACE FALLS POWER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . 38WASHINGTON ELECTRIC COMPANY . . . . 38WASHINGTON ELECTRIC COMPANY, AGENT . . . 38WHATCOM COUNTY POWER COMPbl:1NY . . . . . . 39WESTERN WASHINGTON POWER COMPANY . . . . . 39WENATCHEE VALLEY GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPA'NY . - 'H , rn 39WASHINGTON-OREGON CORPORATION . . . . . . . . . 40WASHINGTON AND OREGON POWER COMPAN . . . 40WENATCHEE ELECTRIC COMPANY . . 40WHATCOM COUNTY POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY . . . . . 40WHITE RIVER POWER COMPANY . . . 41YAKIMA WATER COMPANY 41
PUGET SOUND POWER AND LIGHTAce, #2250InventoryBox#DatesORGANIZATION# ofFolders1921RECORD SER I ES1-22-445677-11INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCE(Executive Offices with other Divisions)Central DistrictNorthern District (Bellingham)Southwest Disctrict (Tacoma)Eastern DistrictNortheastern District (Everett)Southern DistrictStone and Webster ( :.ov-.ii'ni-c,-h'o1/1 of sev-;,t:, ',n, Re:· Operations rs, Lf P wb.::JV""",/t)Re: Everett Reorganization(separation of Light & Railway)Re: Puget Sound 25-281920-311920-311925-261921-25INTEROFFICE CORRESPONDENCE - of Treasurers DepartmentComptrollers Office1922-30Applications for Consent to Renewal ofNotes41934Gold Coupon Notes1930-·35Bond Series1929-35Sales of Stocks1935Director and Trustee Meetings1934-35Financing re: Bond Issue1932-34Financing1912-24,32-33Financing re: Series E Bonds1937-38Legal Opinions1923-35Re: Coupville Lighting Company1927Re: Darrington Light and Power Company1929Re: North Coast Power Company1923-24, 1940-48Re: Sequim Light and Power Company1925Re: Sultan Electric Company1926Wenatchee Valley Gas and Electric1921GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE of Real Estate Agent1926-27GENERAL CORRESPONDENCERe: Plant Operations (includes Suppliers)1921- 5
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250P age 4-2525262728-34342635273436-3738-4243-43bRECORD SERIES (continued)REPORTSCentral District (Seattle)Operating ReportsStockholders ReportsDirectors ReportsAnnual ReportsNorthern District (Bellingham}Operating Reports·Annual ReportsFeeder Study (includes Correspondence)Northeastern District (Everett)Operating ReportsAnnual ReportsEastern DistrictOperating ReportsWestern District (includes Bremerton)Operating ReportsSouthern District (Chehalis)Operating ReportsSouthwestern District (Tacoma)Operating ReportsAnnual ReportsFINANCIAL RECORDSCentral DistrictFinancial ReportsNorthern DistrictFinancial ReportsGeneral LedgerSouthern DistrictLedgersSouthwestern DistrictTrial BalanceEastern DistrictGeneral LedgerWe.stern DistrictDetail of Fixed CapitalCombined DistrictsFinancial ReportsSummary of Trial BalanceTrial BalanceBalance Sheet (includes Subs)Detail of Fixed CapitalSubsidiary CompaniesFinancial ReportsLEGAL DOCUMENTSPower Contracts (Street Lighting)Power ContractsLegal Documents, miscellaneous(Agreements, electric franchises,miscellaneous contracts re powerand traction - PSP&L andpredecessor companie )Dates# 261921-281921-311927-363 vols.1929-362 ols.
. Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 3Box#RECORD SERIES (continued)44LEGAL DOCUMENTS (continued)Legal Documents - White River Muckleshoot Case45-46CLIPPING INDEXESDates# ofFl d rs.1952-56PUBLICATIONSLIST OF RECORDS DESTROYED47484949-5050-515152531924-26PHOTOGRAPHS - Northern DistrictSUBJECT SERIESBone Power Bill (EphemeralBonneville Power AdministrationReportsStatisticsClippingsBuzzell StudyCity Transportation CompanySUBJECT SERIES - Condemnation Cases Federal Power Commission Hearing- Docket IT 5647Index to TranscriptTranscriptExhibitsReports - PSP&L Statistics andStockholders - Los AngelesNotebook Copy No. 1General NotebooksData to FPC - News ClippingsSUBJECT SERIES - Condemnation Cases Securities and Exchange CommissionHearingsSale of Assets - Testimony Plates 1-74SEC Hearing - Plates 1-74Proposed Testimony - SEC HearingGeneral Notebook - SEC HearingExcerpts of TestimonyGeneral NotebookPSP&L Company - File 54-52 - AbstractAbstract of Transcript - Hearing onRecapitalization (Index)Index to ExhibitsInventory of Property not in Power Pool- Whatcom - Tri-CountyApplicants BriefProceedings on Recapitalization Plan Docket 54-52n.d.1942-471944-461945-52ca. 193119401940· 19401930-422411VO l 5.3 vols.19401940219411941194119411942.1942194219422 vols.3 vols.1942194219426-17-42 to8-18-4216
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 4Box#545556-575861B6162-6465666768-70DatesSUBJECT SERIES - Condemnation Cases Securities and Exchange CommissionHearings (continued)Proceedings on Recapitalization Plan Docket 54-52Oral ArgumentTestimony - Gilman, Wm. C.ExhibitsProceedings Docket 59-4 - pp. 48405627ExhibitsProceedings Docket 70-657Unidentified ProceedingsNotebook Re: Preparation of CaseNotebook Re: PSP&L Electric RatesRefinancing Correspondence and RelatedPapersRecapitalization Plan - Correspondenceand Related PapersRefinancing - Correspondence and RelatedPapersRegistration Statements and AmendmentsRefinancing and Registration Statementsand AmendmentsSUBJECT SERIES - Condemnation CasesOrganization - Work ChartInventoryFisher (Frank E.) Data BooksAppraisalsGeneral NotebooksFord, Bacon and Davis AppraisalsSpecific CasesWhatcom CountyGeneral Correspondence (includesinteroffice, legal, miscellaneousPUD market values, Black & Veatch)General NotebooksInventoryAppraisals (Black & Veatch)Electric PropertyPower Pool PropertyWorking Papers (Fisher Appraisal)Court PapersLegal PapersExhibits# ofFldrs.8-19-42 to10-26-422-19-438-6-4219426-22-4219423-29-43 to4-1-43ca. 1943ca. 1934-351939-431936-431939193919391939-414 vols.
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 5DatesBox#68-70 T SERIES - Condemnation Cases (cont.)Specific Cases (cont.)Whatcom County (cont.)Court Papers (cont.)s. McFadden's Working PapersNotes on PUD WitnessesTrial Transcript with Index U.S. District CourtTrial Transcript - U.S. SupremeCourt AppealTri-County CaseInventory (includes Fisher Notebook)Thurston, Cowlitz, LewisGraphicsAppraisals (Black & Veatch)Thurston, Cowlitz, LewisNotebooksGraphicsCourt Papers, Trial Transcripts,ExhibitsTranscript - Cowlitz County vs.Washington Gas & ElectricClallam CountyPort Angeles caseLegal Documents, Correspondence,ContractsGeneral NotebookCorrespondence, Legal Documents,Miscellaneous Court PapersInventory Working PapersAppraisal Working PapersCourt Papers, Exhibits, TrialTranscriptJefferson CountyLegal Papers, Transcript, Correspondence, Statistical DataIndian Island CorrespondenceKitsap CountyCorrespondence, Legal Papers, TrialTranscripts, ExhibitsU.S. Housing AuthorityBremerton Acquisition SuitSnohomish CountyGeneral NotebookInventoryMapsAppraisalCourt Papers, Legal Papers, TrialTranscript, Exhibits# 31941194219411941-421941194219422 vols.
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. 1/2250Page 6Box II8282-838384(Condemnation Cases, cont'd.)Miscellaneous CasesPeninsular CountiesInventory, Court Papers, WorkingPapersGrays HarborLegal Papers, CorrespondenceValuation InventoryPierce County (Tacoma)Puyal !up CondemnationAppraisal, Trial TranscriptPuyal !up CondemnationCorrespondence, Court Papers,CI i pp i ngsSUBJECT SERIESFederal Trade CommissionGeneral CorrespondenceFederal Trade Commission ExaminerFederal Trade Commission - Informationon District Power Bi I I CampaignFriday Harbor Power and LightInvestigationGovernment and Municipal OwnershipGrand CouleeGeneral CorrespondenceSpeeches and WritingsReportsHearingsMinutes - CBIACLegislationFinancial RecordsNews Re IeasesCI i pp i ngsMapsEphemeraGreat Northern Power CompanyInterstate vs. IntrastateInterchange Agreement between Companyand City of SeattleKitsap County Transportation CompanyNooksack River Irrigation PlanNorthern Division Interurban(Abandonment of)Northwest Power CompanyNorthwestern Power CompanyPortland Power CompaniesDatesII 1931-341929-411926-271939-413223
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 7Box#8686-8989-909191-93DatesSUBJECT SERIES (cont.)Powdered CoalPower Expansion - War EmergencyPower Studies in CapacitiesPower Pool Inventory (H.L. Gray)Working PapersFina 1 CopyPredecessor CompaniesPuget Sound Elettric RailwayRate Control ClausesRock Island DevelopmentGeneral CorrespondenceInteroffice CorrespondenceTreasurer's DepartmentCourt Papers - FPC ProceedingsSale of Seattle Metropolitan AreaGeneral CorrespondenceFarrel 1 LettersCompetitive AreaSnoqualmie, White River &Transmission LinesRe: City MergerGeneral Correspondence - NotebookCentral Engineering - City MergerFalck, Edward - City MergerMi see 11 aneousGeneral Correspondence Re: Seattle.Lighting DepartmentGeneral CorrespondenceMinutesFinancial RecordsRe: Seattle. Lighting DepartmentPuget Sound Power and Light Company- Seattle.Lighting Department SaleStatements of ExpenseBook of Tax Cost of PropertyTaxesClosing EntriesRevenues and StatisticsSpeeches and WritingsMi see 11 aneousTestimony of Dr. John Bauer - NewHaven Water Company CaseData on Dr. John Bauer''Americas Struggle for ElectricPower''ReportsTechnical and FinancialPower Generation - Capacity 94719351933-341939-42# ofFl 8-511949-501931-511948-511950-521951195119511914, 194950,n.d.1943n .d.19351933 50,n.d.4
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 8Box#DatesSUBJECT SERIES (cont.)Sale of Seattle Metropolitan Area (cont.)Reports (cont.)Technical and Financial (cont.}Various Proposals for CompetitiveSituation··93-9494-95Comparisons of PSP&L with Seattle.Lighting DepartmentAnnual Reports - Seattle. LightingDepartmentTo City Council on proposal to acquireand operate PSP&L CompanyProperty in King CountyProposed acquisiti6n by Seattle ofcertain properties owned byPSP&L CompanyPSP&L and City Light - Comparisonsand Working Papers18th Annual Board of Administration- City Employee's RetirementSystemCity Merger - Personnel StudiesCity Merger - Employee StudiesRoss Report on King County PropertyMiscellaneous·Legal Documents - MiscellaneousLegal Documents - Draft Agreement ofPurchase: Sale bet een PSP&L andCityLegal Documents - Agreement of Purchase:Sale between P P&L and CityHearings - Before Washington Public ervice Commissio Re: PSP&Lapproval of sale to Seattle.Lighting DepartmentAppraisals - Public Utility Appraisals- by Jensen, Bowen and FarrellAppraisals - PSP&L - Reproduction CostNew AppraisalSnohomish CountyOrdinances - SeattleCourt PapersNews ReleasesMapsNotesNewslettersC1 i pp i ng s - Re: Propos i ti on 11 c11Clippings - Articles by J.C. UngerRe: Mercer# 193641948194919461933-54,n.d.1938, 1949,1951,n.d.19516195132-·16-5122193719482 vols.1902, 193138, 1943-511950-511934-50,n.d.1938, 194851 ,n. d.1950-51,n.d.1934-5019501936-5634
Puget Sound Power and LightAcc. #2250Page 9.DatesBox#96-979898-9999100100-101SUBJECT SERIES (cont.)Sale of Seattle Metropolitan Area (cont.)ClippingsEphemeraSubject SeriesExhibits, Data, Memoranda Re:Bonneville ConferencesSummary of Exhibits Relating toAcquisition of King CountyProperty and Rock. IslandRate of Return DataSeattle. Lighting Department Purchase- Property ListingArticles by Pat Johnson Re: SeattleFranchise and CompetttiveSituationRadio Programs against Proposition 11 c11List of Properiies of PSP&L proposedfor inclusion in sale to Cityof Seattle·Details of negotiations - PSP&L andSeattleOffice Equipment and MiscellaneousMattersExperience Records [of InventoryEmployees]Miscellaneous Data Re: City MergerCity MergerCity Merger - P.J. Notebooks {PatJohnson]City Merger - Inventory - S.H. Data- Miscellaneous DataCity Merger - Requests - Log ofD ta to City· ·City Merger - Completed RequestsLetter o Mayor and Exhibits Re:City MergerSteam Heat SaleCentral Division - Steam HeatE
concerns the negotiations between Puget and City Light which culminated in the sale of Puget's Seattle properties to City Light in 1951. The Subgroups -PREDECESSOR COMPANIES include records of four of the five companies which merged July 8, 1912 to form PSTLP: Seattle Electric, Seattle-
