THE JORDAN NARROWS PLANT one of the recent acquisitions to industrial enterprises is the power plant installed at the jordan narrows by the salt lake city water and electrical power company during buring the past year this company has constructed a plant in the jordan narrows eighteen miles south of salt take lake city on the line of the rio kio grande western power is obtained from the waters of utah lake flowing through the jordan river the com banys canal has a length of feet parallel with the river this canal has a minimum bottom to m width of about thirty feet where ever necessary the canal has been lined with concrete if used to its full badac capacity the canal will carry cubic feet of water per second atthe powerhouse power house the canal is seventy five feet above the river the total amount of power available under this head is estimated estima ted at horse power As many as men have been carried upon the payroll during the pro gress of the work the power is transmitted from the powerhouse power house to bingham a distance distance of twelve miles upon one transmission line upon another transmission line the power is carried to Ider mercur cur the distance being twenty two miles distribution lines for light and power purposes are constructed in both mercur and bingham A number of contracts have been made for the supply of current in both places and many are under advisement mines and mills will install electrical machinery rep replacing lacine steam with few exceptions A description of the jordan narrows plant is as follows A concrete forebay beside the canal fifty feet square with regulating lating 1 gates and spill spillway w ar convey surplus water to the river four caissons chaissons cais sons and intake valves of steel boilerplate boiler plate valves being operated by mechanical means and located in the bottom of the forebay from these valves four feeder pipes of boilerplate boiler plate steel each seventy two inches in diameter about feet long extend down to the power station supplying water to the power station machinery four double horizontal turbine wheels are arranged in four boilerplate boiler plate steel wheel cases the wheels in each wheel case being capable of producing 1400 horsepower and the complete system capable of producing an aggregate rated capacity of horsepower horse power the plant has two horizontal turbine water wheels of forty horsepower each with steel feeder pipe connections and draught tubes besides suitable wheel pits tail races weirs distributing gates and foundations which required 1400 cubic yards of concrete in their construction and are so provided as to permit the discharge of tail waters from froin the double turbine wheels upon either of two levels viz under fifty five feet head bead and under seventy five feet head below the level of the forebay when operating the wheels under afif fifty ty five feet bead d the ta fail il water is supplied fa 0 o the irrigation canals supplying the salt lake valley during the summer season the hydraulic apparatus is from the shops of the S morgan smith company york pa the electrical apparatus was specially designed and built by the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company of pittsburg pa when fully installed it consists of four three phase sixty cycle sine wave kilowatt revolutions 61 u eions per minute electric generators each directly coupled to one ji T I 1 j ara FRONT VIEW OF POWER PLANT AT JORDAN NARROWS shaft shaf t of the double horizontal water wheels these machines are liberally designed for the service vice required and will give an electric output of 50 percent per cent in e excess X cess of the rated capacity if required for p periods periods of short duration the water wheels are so arranged as to produce this increased power when required two direct current electric generators era tors each direct coupled to one of the forty horse power turbine water wheels and used to excite the fields of the large generators suitable switch h boards and station apparatus for governing indicating and registering the output of the station permitting the four kilowatt generators to be operated in parallel delivering a common effort into the transmission system static transformers fo mers sufficient for the output of the station oil insulated and cooled and so designed as to raise the voltage of the station output in the ratio of 30 to 1 the generators be being 1 ing operated at volts and the transmitted energy is volts the station building is thirty feet feel by eighty six feet for the machinery department and the transformer house department is sixteen feet by thirty two feet the walls are seventeen inch brick and the roof and floor work is of steel frame filled filled with con ON fica 91 I 1 THE JORDON NARROWS PLANT CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE crete the excavation concrete foundation found atio tail race and wheel pits represent four fifths of the total building cost the entire construction st is built in as substantial I 1 reliable and durable manner as could possibly be desired the station has now had four months continuous operation without one minutes omission accommodations for the he employees necessary for operating the station will be provided in a brick structure adjoin adjoining ing the transmission lines to mercur and bingham consist of extra heavy poles thirty feet or upward in length forty six to the mile with extra heavy cross arms and large porcelain triple petticoat insulators both lines are equipped with soft drawn copper transmission wires transposed at each intervals of one half mile and telephone wires so arranged as to neutralize inductive effects the wire was manufactured by john R Koeb lings sons company the station is also connected by private telephone line with the general office of the company compan y in the mccornick block salt lake city over the rocky mountain bell telephone cos lines the station began operations supplying electrical energy in mercur january 15 last and to bingham in february the officers of the company are allan G lamson president E E lamson vice dent W S mccornick treasurer C W L stevens secretary E R M jones chief engineer the company is capitalized at 1000 having shares of a par value of each