System Would Cost $100,000,000 and Cover New England—Development Half Million Horsepower From Tides—Engineer Sees Adequate Financing
New York, Sept. 20.— (AT)—Development of power from the tides of Passamaquoddy Bay, a project approved by the people of Maine in a referendum vote, would result in formation of an electrical system costing $100,000,000 covering New England, according to engineers who surveyed the situation. it would be linked with the power lines from Niagara on the west, the report said, “thus forming a great reservoir of power for the most densely populated portion of the state.” W. S. Murray, one of the engineers who made the investigation, announced today 600,000 horsepower could be developed from the bay tides. He expressed confidence adequate financing could be arranged on the basis usually followed in electric utility promotion.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, September 21, 1925