Show UTAH POWER AND LIGHT S Z mitchell president of the utah securities curi ties company has sent out a notice to stockholders giving some inhere interesting sting details as to the power being developed by the utah power and light company the letter says the properties acquired by your company have been merged into utah power and aig light ht company which has now completed organization and is in active operation the territory served covers sou southeastern h idaho northern utah and a section of western colorado within this territory are some thirty cities and towns having an aggregate population of since consolidation soli dation of the seventeen hydroelectric hydro electric pro properties Pertle s which comprise this system with a total of horsepower there have been acquired three additional properties with an aggregate of horsepower there is now being constructed horsepower additional to the power plant at grace idaho A new development is being made at oneida idaho which will have a capacity of horsepower by the end of 1914 the installed capacity of the utah power and light company will probably be horsepower the present transmission and distribution system comprises 1454 miles of lines there are now under construction miles of additional transmission lines on june I 1 there were connected to this system customers whose motors lights and other electrical machinery aggregate horsepower the company has cosed closed long term contracts with many of the large power consumers in this territory including the utah copper company salt lake ogden railway company union portland cement company and utah light and railway company on june I 1 there were outstanding 16 of ten year 6 per cent notes of this amount represents expenditures for construction work lines and water rights not yet productive the old plants have been overhauled and interconnected so as to increase output and operating efficiency fi fici ency As the additional horsepower is made available through completion of the oneida and grace plants it is expected that net earnings will be substantially increased and when this additional power has all been sold the company should earn darn a substantial surplus over and above interest on its notes it is dropped to a storage bin feeding a ten stamp battery the stamps weigh 1050 pounds and drop five inches times a minute the ore is crushed through 20 mesh and flows over twelve feet of 56 lucri silver plated amalgamation plates on a grade of one and one half inches to the foot A pierce amalgamator is used at the end of the plates the pulp is classified in spitz kasten and the sands are treated in three leaching tanks 21 feet iby by 5 feet the slime is thickened and agitated etc zinc shavings and electrolysis will be used for precipitation according to reports the details are not clear A strong solution is to be used two pounds to the ton consumption of cyanide is expected to be about one half pound per ton of ore arr treated sted |