Santa Barbara County History

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Source:
A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara,
San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California
by Yda Addis Storke
Published in 1891 in Chicago by the Lewis Publishing Co.


ELECTRIC LIGHT. 

Since November 1, 1887, Santa Barbara has been municipally lighted by the electric 
system. There are two towers 150 feet high, each having four 2,000-candlc power 
lamps, and twenty-eight masts sixty and eighty feet high, each with one 2,000 
candle-power lamp. State street is thus lighted throughout its entire length, and the 
rest of the lamps are distributed about the city. This system costs the city about $500 
monthly. Besides the city lights, there are in use over sixty arc -lights of l,200 candle-
power, and a large number of incandescent lights of various powers, used for the 
lighting of mercantile houses, hotels, and other private establishments.