Show GLENWOOD PLANT T 0 BE USED AS BOOSIER IER local liblit company compall y will in intall install tall a motor to assist in bet act ter distribution of current WORKMEN FIND ACTS OP OF VANDALISM IN EVIDENCE switchboard and other equipment have been destroyed ind in deilor of power houe hou e c is almost complete wreck tile tho local light and power company has undertaken tile the resurrection and rehabilitation of the glenwood I 1 power plant that little affair across the valley that cost tom brown much sweat and di nd treasure and which gave light to richfield and glenwood Pl enwood for many moons ere the advent of the present company and the installation of the present high voltage lines formerly the lines here carried volts but now u ow there is a voltage of to s send end the current from leaver canyon through the sevier valley the service here has been anything but satisfactory what with storms in the mountains interference from low hanging bran branches C lies of trees boys fooling with the high tension wires and numerous other disturbances along the main line the lighting service has been the cause of much profanity and perturbation it is proposed now to remedy som some e of the trouble by the installation of a motor at the old glenwood plant where between GO CO and 70 horsepower can be developed and this motor will be used to draw current from the beaver river R ver plant and act as a booster for the distributing system here A reaper representative w was as startled to hear one of the men employed in regenerating tile the glenwood plant planty I 1 say s a y the runs huns are not all in ge germany many he was referring to the vandalism which has been perpetrated at the little power house bouse of the glenwood plant formerly there was an up to dato date there of switch board I 1 lightning ighani n 9 arr arresters er r rheostat h co s t at and all the little ingenious contrivances for controlling and distributing the current generated by the water wheel now there a vestige of this left everything that could be broken to is destroyed and the metal parts are bent twisted and torn from their moorings the water pipe carrying the head of water from the canal up on the hill to the water wheel has been filled with largo large stones and much damage done to it this work might be excused in an army of invasion or a band of ma indians say the men in charge of the work at this plant but they can call see no earthly excuse for such vandalism here in this valley and they regard it as aa a terrible arraignment of the forces of law and order in the vicinity if the plant can be put into proper shape the light company officials believe they can overcome much of the irregularity in current hero here and for that purpose they will try to put the plant in operation again the water supply there is constant and the installation of a boosting motor will do much to help the local light situation |