Show LET THERE BE LIGHT How the Electric Liirlit Service is to be Improved THE BIG NEW POWER HOUSE I Is Thousht the New System Will be In Operation in About One Week So many important enterprises are now being carried out in this city that it is diffi cult to keep track of them all and while it is generally known that the Electric Light company are engaged in making improvements improve-ments but few are aware of their extent Frank H Dyer who is the leading spirit in this corporation is thoroughly satisfied that Salt Lake has a great future ahead of it and he is showing his faith by his works When the idea of improving the electric light plant was first discussed Mr Dyer took the broad view that the company must not only provide for the immediate wants of the city but also for its future needs This policy has been carried out and the handsome aad substantial new power house is almost completed This building is 100x70 feet in the clear two stories high is built of light brick and is covered with an iron truss roof The new machinery which is now being placed in this power house consists of two Blake plunge pumps of 280 horsepower each One of these pumps will supply the water while the other will bo used in case of accident three ArmingtonSims high speed encines sixty feet of new line shafts and pulleys with new Hill double clutches one ateach end of the shaft so thatany number of dynamos or engines may be thrown off or on at will without interfering with the speed of the machinery six new steel boilers of500 horse power one large heater three smoke stacks 44 inches in diameter and 70 feet high fourteen arc dynamos and six incandescent dynamos In addition to this the company has strung about one hundred miles of wire and the capacity will be increased to 2000 incandescent and about five hundred arc lights AH of the machinery is of the very I latest make and the power house is one of the best equipped in America The cost of these improvements will aggregate at least one hundred and twentyfive thousand dollars and the company already had 100000 invested in the business The second sec-ond floor will not be needed by thecompmy and it will probably be rented It is perhaps per-haps the largest hall in the city and the truss roof does a > vay with all posts The new plant is being installed under the personal per-sonal direction of Mr Dyer who is working work-ing night and day to get the machinery in running order at the earliest possible date It is expected that the machinery will be started up for a trial run about the end of this week and the lights will be turned on next week Mr Dyer is spending his means generously in building up the city in which he lives and his policy will bring to the Electric Light company that liberal support sup-port of the public which it richly deserves Mr Dyer is also completing arrangements to increase the capacity of the gas works by constructing several additional retorts |