Fog Signal General

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Cape Flattery Light Station - 1910

Fog Signal General

Steam fog signal 12" whistle in duplicate

1 hour to 1.5 hours

Whistles and one engine from Tompkinsville, NY; other engine NY Safety Steam
Power Co.

unknown

8 sec blast, 52 sec silent

2 complete plants by whistles are only strictly duplicate parts.

Governors on engines; Pickering on N; Gardiner on S.

75 lbs

117'

90' N'ly from tower & established to mark entrance to Straits of Juan de Fuca.

About 100' NW'ly

Cistern & tank

by foot walks

Brick bldg cemented on outside, roof lined with corrugated iron & covered with plain galvanized iron; Brick stack 36' high surmounted by iron stack 16' long.

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