HAER No. AZ-6-B, Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line (the 115kV System), Gila County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data
Author(s): Leah S. Glaser
Year: 1996
Summary
The Eastern Mining Area transmission line was first built to carry hydroelectric power generated at Roosevelt Dam, the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s first large scale work, into Phoenix. It soon expanded to serve the area mines the southern portion of Gila County. The sale of power to these mines provided revenue to expand the Salt River Project’s hydroelectric system and furnish Salt River Valley farmers with electricity.
Cite this Record
HAER No. AZ-6-B, Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line (the 115kV System), Gila County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data. Leah S. Glaser. 1996 ( tDAR id: 410795) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8410795
Keywords
Material
Metal
Site Type
Transmission Line
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Architectural Documentation
General
Salt River Project
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SRP
Geographic Keywords
Gila (County)
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Goldfield, AZ
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Maricopa (County)
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Miami, AZ
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Pinal (County)
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Roosevelt Dam
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Superior, AZ
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Superstition Mountains
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -111.635; min lat: 33.029 ; max long: -110.649; max lat: 33.523 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager
Contributor(s): Leah S. Glaser; James R. Eastwood
Landowner(s): Salt River Project
Submitted To(s): Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Record Identifiers
HAER No.(s): AZ-6-B
File Information
| Name | Size | Creation Date | Date Uploaded | Access | |
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| 1996_Glaser_PhotographsWritten_OCR.pdf | 58.63mb | Jun 1, 1996 | Mar 21, 2017 12:22:40 PM | Confidential | |
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Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager