West Texas utility buys water rights in Oak Creek Lake deal
The West Texas Utilities Company secures half of Gulf Oil Corporation water rights at Oak Creek Lake to support a new Abilene-San Angelo area power plant. Sweetwater scales back pumping obligations as the lake capacity rises from 40 000 to 50 000 acre feet with a $75 000 weir project funded after plant completion and increased water sales.
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West Texas Utilities Company
Abilene
San Angelo
Sweetwater
Oak Creek Lake
Gulf Oil Corporation
Oak Creek
WTU
Oil Company
City of
WTA
Concho
Three Rivers
Young
Reading Clinic Attendees Highlight 11th Conference
Mr and Mrs Vetal Flores attended Sul Ross College 11th Annual Reading Conference in Alpine. Flores elected chairman of publicity and Mrs Flores joined the planning committee. They toured Old Mexico and McDonald Observatory. Dr Helen Haus spoke on Reading Around the World. Shakespeare play staged by Sul Ross speech class.
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Vetal Flores
Alpine
Sul Ross College
Flores
Old Mexico
McDonald Observatory
Indian Lodge
Helen Haus
University of Pensylvania
Power travels miles along WTU high voltage lines
West Texas Utilities operates 2652 miles of transmission lines linking Twitty in Wheeler County to Presidio at the Rio Grande with feed across the border to Ojinaga. The system serves 104,000 customers in 166 towns across West Texas, about two customers per square mile. WTU is among Texas’s smaller private electric utilities, yet Cal Young, WTA president, envisions growth with the region.
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Twitty
Presidio
West Texas Utilities Company
WTA
Texas
Wheeler County
Oklahoma
Fort Worth
WTU
West Texas
Cal Young
Wta Presdent
West Texas Utility to Launch Five Year Power Expansion
WTU unveils a five year program adding 470 500 kilowatts and expanding transmission to 138 000 volt lines from the Oklahoma border to San Angelo and McCamey. New gas turbine and steam units at Paint Creek Rio Pecos and other plants will push total generating capacity to about 421 000 kilowatts by 1961.
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WTA
Young
WTU
Fort Stockton
Paint Creek
Rio Pecos
Lake Stamford
Haskell County
McCamey
Oklahoma-San Angelo
Paint Creek Plant
Munday
Lake Pauline
Oklahoma Border
Abilene
Central Power and Light Company
Val.Verde County
Southwestern Public Service Company
Texas Electric Service Company
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Public Service Company of Oklahoma
Cental Power and Light Company
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West Texas Utilities
West
Allen Sherrod
R. J. Barnett
James
Graham
Great Southwest
Snce
Quanah
Val Verde County
Central Power & Light Company
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