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Show Electric Light & Power Plant Wearing Completion Practically all the construction work on the new Electric Light & Power Plant, which the city is in-stalling in-stalling in the mouth of Pleasant Creek Ca.iyon four miles east of Mt. Plea.-ant, is now completed. The dive! ting works consisting of rock concrete masonry dam and a con-, con-, crete flume, together with screens, gates, operating devices, etc., are completed. They are placed in the creek in such a manner as to protect It from ail freshets or floods that may come at any time down the canyon. can-yon. A well constructed limber screen is buiit on the front of the diverting works on a slant so as to protect tne cement work and steel screens f-om any large boulders that may comi; down the stream. The mortar o which the dam was constructed con-structed was made in the proportion of one part by volume of cement to ( two and one half parts of sand and four parts gravel. The pipe line consists of about 5,-750 5,-750 feet of continuous stave pipe, and nearly 475 feet of steel pipe which covers the distance from the flume at the diverting works to the nozzle of the water wheel in the power house. The staves are first quality Oregon fir. The bands are made of mild steel having a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs per square inch. The pipe has a diameter of 20 inches and' will remain stable at all ordinary weather conditions encountered here. The power house is made with a cement foundation and floor insuring insur-ing a solid foundation for all the machinery. The house is construct-i construct-i ed of dark red brick and covered Vwith a patent roofing. A telephone booth with double walls is built in-f in-f side the building and the house is I surrounded with a cement walk. The transmisson line and distributing distribut-ing system is one of the best of its i kind in the state. The poles are i selected from good sound, well shaped, live cedar wood, which are not less than six inches in ' diameter at the top and taper naturally to the butt. The poles are ',. 30 feet long set a depth of five feet in concrete which, is raised four ! inches above the ground and made I in a shape to shed water away from the poles. There are fifty poles to the mile. All line wire is made of pure copper registering 95 percent, n .-Reluctivity drawn true to gauge 1 f and of the best quality in every re-1 re-1 spect as electrical conductor wires. !J j The city has experienced dissap-I dissap-I ! pointment in delay which has been 1 occasioned b"y the inability of manu-I manu-I , facturers to get the machinery here i I at the time specified, which is a eom-I eom-I ' mon occurance with big concerns. H But they are now promised that the S ; machinery will be here not later than October 15. in which event it is Ej 1 exp?cted that the new plant will be I set in operation by the last ofOcto-S ofOcto-S ier. The contractors will begin the j installation of machinery foundation a i next week., I j The water wheel to be used in the I power h )use is of the impulse or 1 : Pelton type of wheel. It will be operated directly connected as an I '.overhung unit on a generator shaft I paving 225 RPM. It will have an I Efficiency of not less than 80 per .cent, when using approximately 9 sm. ft. of water. The generator I Will be star connected and wound for a voltage of 4,000. It will have I W cycles and be separately excited, 1 wing a speed of 225RPM. The ex-1 ex-1 ,citef will be a direct current gen- er&tor and belt connected having a I skiing base arrangement for I "Shtening the belt. I i The contract was let early in the .8tnnK when everybody seemed to be I ea2" for work and out of six bids I imuted to the council on April 9, 5 selected Lyman & Samuels to J; Uhe plant, this firm having of-: of-: rwl to do the work for a low and . easonable sum of $25,312. It being 'contr eSt b'd received- Ordinarily :e ractors figure on receiving at is r additional 10 percent, of the vjs'ra price for extras. But on !Aontract the extras will not ex-kash ex-kash Wmle some eliminations Qade which. wjll probably i " - ' ..'"v 1 . ' -t , V . - " i ... v - U. ; I - .1 V - i ' ..'- i ; . , , - , a Mayor James W. Anderson. bring the price lower than the original origi-nal contract. The city however is making some extensions on the distributing dis-tributing system which are in addition addi-tion to the first contract. The Council employed Mayor Jas. W. Anderson to supervise the work and under his direction the plant has been erected according to plans and specifications drawn up by the engineers. As was decided by the citizens in mass meeting at the time the bond election was proposed the city has purchased the old plant and distributing distrib-uting system from the Mt. Pleasant Mill & Power Co. for$15,000. Which company has agreed to furnish the city 100 new cedar poles same as those specified by the engineers for the new plant to take the place of such poles m are jointly owned by them and the telephone company. The Mill & Power Co. further agrees to release claim of meters and to pay to the city the difference between purchase pribe and present value of the same. , It is the intention to furnish light to all as soon as it is possible to make the necessary extensions. It is estimated by the engineers that the city will have sufficient power to operate a 200 K. W. Machine which is being installed and which will furnish fur-nish sufficient power for the city and inhabitants for many years to come. Many applications have already been made to the city administration to furnish continuous power. The demand for increased use of electricity elec-tricity in the homes which have heretofore here-tofore not been supplied, and public buildings such as the Elite theatre and Wasatch Dormatory promises to bring an increased revenue from the sale of the power. When the plant js set in operation Mt. Pleasant can well be proud of owning the finest Electric Light and Power plant of its kind in the state. |