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Show Ideal Power Sites Along Mountain Streams I '(''.' - ,-5ff e B 0 i ' - Upalco Flour Mills, owned :uxl operated by Uintah Power M- Linht company. com-pany. Capacity !."() barrels per day. - ' - - -' -1 View of the power site, Uintah Power V,- Li.zht company, showing Lake Fork river, power house and pipo line. The pipe Hue is J. i miles long- i.s :5D inches in diameter with fall of 110 feet. Interior iew, power plant, Tintah Power & IJht company, khywlng mo of Hie two dynamos, ll,(iot Kiluwnr transformer and switch hoard,. i Estimated 500,000 Horsepower, Sufficient Suffi-cient to Furnish Lights for Twenty Thousand Towns Size of My ton I Total Population J Eleven Million i J The most ideal powersites in the j west are to be found along the I streams running down from the moun ! tains surrounding the Uintah basin. ; Ii Is claimed the power easily j available will amount to GOO, 000 . horse power. Perhaps the average reader does not realize just how much a horse power Is. In order to ascertain the engine power required requir-ed to supersede the work of horses, James Watt employed a strong horse to wind up weights and thus found 22,000 pounds could ho raised one foot per minute. For fear of giving his customers under value, he allowed allow-ed overweight half as heavy again, which made a horse power 33,000 foot pounds per minute. The horse power necessary to furnish fur-nish lights for the town of Myton is about 25, The 500,000 horse power in the Uintah basin would therefore furnish lights for 20,000 such towns as 'Myton. Figuring My-ton's My-ton's population at 550 the total population of 20,000 such towns would be 11,000,000. The United States government rc-c-i.tly finished a big dam in the Missippl river near Quiney, 111. The cost of this dam was millions of dollars. The dam had to be constructed con-structed before power- was available, i In the mountains surrounding the Uintah basin Nature has already constructed these dams. The only cost is in the installation of the proper machinery. : Only a beginning has been made in the utilization of these mountain etreams for power purposes. The Vernal .Milling & Light company in the early part of 1008 finished the system which produces ppwor and liht for the Ashley valley. This cf'i-ip.uiy is composed of local people. peo-ple. (More than $100,000 has been cNpenAled. " 'fhv Uintah Power & Light "c'ffnT pany furnishes power and light forj j 11 yon and Roosevelt The plant is n the Lakefork rhcr about 15 miles noi th west of Myton. One and one-fcurth one-fcurth miles up the river from the plant is the intake from which tha water runs into a wooden pipe, thirty inches In diameter. The fall from the Intake to the plant is 110 feet. The present equipment will develop 150 horse power hut it is planned to Increase this as the demand requires. re-quires. The approximate available I horse power is 1,500. jstreet scenes In Nlyton. Trio of Standardbrcds from Stables of E. A. Daniels, Vernal, Utah. Tix machinery in the power house is the most modern and up-to-date that money would buy. There are two Immense turbine wheels and two dynamos. Just recently, at a heavy cost, the company installed the best lig'itnlng arresters for protection against lightning.- Tli 3 power generated at the plant Ir. ".300 volts, which is transformed or "stepped up" to 11,000 volts and transmitted to the substations at Myton and Itoosevelt, where it is again transformed or "stepped down" to 2,300 volts and distributed throughout the two towns. This I transforming is necessary in order! to transmit the current over a smaller wire than would be used if the current cur-rent should be transmitted at the voltage of the dynamos. In other j words transforming enables the use of smaller wires and less copper, thereby greatly reducing the cost of transmission. It also carries the electricity with less line loss. The plant is in operation twenty-four hours each day, seven days a week, and 52 weeks a year. If something should go wrong with one dynamo a quick switch is made to the other and the user of light or power hardly hard-ly notices the change. The Upalco flour mill, Just outside the northern suburbs of Myton, is one of the most modern in the United Unit-ed States. The capacity is 150 bar-j rels per clay. The flour turned out is famous and is in big demand not; only In -all parts of the basin hut on the outside. The word Upalco Is formed from certain letters In the words "Uintah I'ower & Light Company" Com-pany" as follows: U-intah, P-ower A-nd L-ight OO-mpany. At the mill a large warehouse is now In course of construction and in the very near future the elevator -ilL4jC- cn 1 arpe.d. . Jm1 i"vtt.-.. of -the- Ulntah-i Ulntah-i Tower ir. AkI1 company is $125,-000. $125,-000. The officers are: II. C. Means, Myton. president; John II. Header, Vernal, vice-president; II C "Ward, Myton, secretary; -H. L. Dart, Myton. tieahiii'er. The directors are: II. C. Means, Hnyden Calvert, U. L. Dart, Myton: J. II. Coltharp, Kangely, Colo.; W. H. Coltharp, Georgo E. AdaniH, John II. Header, Vernal. Ed. Jessup is electrician. John IMrchell and J, E. Frizzcll are operators. 1 Work began on the plant in the summer of 1 f 1 3 and was completed complet-ed in the fall of 1914. Interior view, power plant. Uintah Power & Light company, bowing one of the two turbine wheels. Intake of pipe line, Uintah Power SjJJght company's power plant. ThM intake Is on Lake Fork river, 15 miles northwest of Myton. ' I i Locking north ido of power lioue, .vhowinc portion of pipe line ami transmission line to Myton and Hoosevelt. Uintah Power V Light I company Street scenes in Roosevelt. lip-. ' .'7-- '. '"' ' ;V " vj';Sl'' - Flrat Cabin in Uintah Basin and Group of Modern Residences at Vrnal. |