Lehigh Navigation Electric Company.

The Lehigh Navigation Electric Company was a major electric utility company in eastern Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Navigation Electric Co. No. 1, was incorporated April 4, 1911. The company was organized by officials of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. in order to supply power to coal mines in and around Carbon County. It functioned as a legal entity to negotiate contracts for construction of a 20,000-kw power plant near Hauto, Carbon County. The primary contract was negotiated with L. B. Stillwell, a New York-based consulting engineer. As construction of the Hauto plant neared completion in 1912, the company arranged to consolidate with the 37 non-operating township companies which it had organized in 1911 and 1912. This merger, which was finalized on January 6, 1913, resulted in the formation of Lehigh Navigation Electric Co., No. 2.

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