March 2017


www.cimarronelectric.com Cimarron Electric Cooperative is Growing!


That same project in today’s dollars would cost over 10 mil- lion. As the lines were being built, the desire for electricity increased. More and more people wanted electricity in their homes. It could extend their day, add to their productivity and make life better!


Matt Crandall shows the original “Project 1-A” contracts that he found. The 2 maps behind him show our lines in 1940 and today.


You might say we are busting out at the seams! As we were cleaning out the warehouse, try- ing to make room for more supplies, we found some very interesting documents. We found the contracts for Cimarron’s first lines that were built. It was called Project 1-A. The project was dated June 7, 1937. Consumer’s Rural Electric Company was incorporated on Dec. 23,1936. That name was changed to Cimarron Electric Cooperative in 1939 to comply with REA rules. It is amazing to see how far we have come in the past 80 years and how much buying power a dol- lar had back then. The project 1-A consisted of building 20 miles of 3-phase line, 12 miles of 2-phase and 247 miles of single phase line in Kingfisher, Blaine and Lo- gan counties. The low bid to build the lines was $243,077.28 and it would provide electricity to around 446 members or farm families!


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* Classifieds. * Conservation.


The same can be said for elec- tricity today. The growing de- mand is in the oil and gas fields. To meet that demand, Cimarron Electric is building lines and adding new substations. The North Kingfisher substation will be doubled in size by the end of next Month.


(Story continues on page 6.)


The actual signatures of E.A. Bourquin & Dwight Chapman on Project 1-A. This contract was to build the first REA lines in Oklahoma. It started Cimarron Electric Cooperative!


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