-1910 -HYDROELECTRIC Substation

In back of the Wheaton & Luhrs building, still stands the HYDROELECTRIC Building - a substation for distribution of the Bodie’s electricity in 1910.

SALE AT AURORA MAY CREATE SUMMER BOOM

Los Angeles Herald - 25 March 1910

BODIE, March 24— The “property known as the Cain Consolidated Mining Company of Aurora” has been sold, and the price paid for it is $250,000, according to James E. Cain.

The purchasers of this property will “install Electric Power and machinery for the purpose of working it on a large scale.”

By the early summer Aurora will experience some of her old-time activity. The Southern Consolidated property in Bodie has gone through a little change, and “that ground will be given an opportunity to show what is contained in its ledges.”

The “Proposed Power Plant” will be built this summer, and operations start immediately. This plant will furnish power for Bodie and Aurora, and for the present will be continued to those two camps.

As to other Enterprises in which Mr. Cain has an interest, each and all will be taken up and advanced in turn. The connecting line of  the “proposed Railroad” will be rushed to completion, so as to give Freight an opportunity to land on the ground at a closer terminal than the point now used in Nevada.

Judging from the information and the general topic of conversation, “the outlook for Mono county is good.”

The Water that has been flowing into Mono lake for years will be used and consumed by promoters in the advancement Commercial Possibilities.