Consumer's Light and Power Company (Wash.)

The Consumer’s Light and Power Company owned its brief existence to the genius and energy of Simon Oppenheimer, who intended it to be a competitor with the Washington Water Power Company. With money borrowed from the Amsterdamsch Trustee’s Kantoor, Oppenheimer set up the Northwest Milling and Power Co. and the Consumer’s Light and Power Company. When his credit was overextended and investors foreclosed, Oppenheimer fled to South America.

From the guide to the Consumer's Light and Power Company Letterpress Book, 1895-1896, (Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives)