Salt Lake Herald | 1894-09-19 | Page 13 | The Power Dam

Tile Power Drxn Hon F J Cannon so it has been announced an-nounced has gone to New York to set t up some business in connection with the power dam business before < nierzng upon the active canvass of the campaign This great enterprise which is des lined to some day be a great factor in advancing the natural interest st Ogden Og-den Is so Car advanced that Its tmi ronto completion Is merely a matter of time and only a short space of time at that thatWhen When completed it Is the purpose to supply electricity In such quantities and so cheap that all of the power employed in this city to drive any kind i > r machinery will come from the canon can-on onAsidf side from the electrical part of the entrprise there is another and possibly possi-bly more important factor in connec lion with the scheme ard that is the jfrig lion of many thousands or acres rf land in the Immediate vicinity oft of-t r this city that will not only tend to In erftisp the population of the conutry but will add millions of dollars to the material wealth of the community I is a grand undertaking and thee Is not a single individual in Ogden whoop who-op not hope earnest that i may be carried on to success and no one would knowingly or willfully do anything to hinder Its progress Yet acknowledging as they do the importance of this great work many hundreds of the best men of Ogden and Weber county wH not vote for Mr Cannon for delegate to congress as they are being urged to do by his Republican friends They want to encourage everything that will lend to build up the community but they realize that the power dam will bp built regardless of the fact of Mr Cannons success or failure in the lr < sent political contest Democrats 12 should remember that it is the success 7 f the party they are contending for ir and not to reward anyone because he happens to be engaged in the promotion = promo-tion of some local business enterprise AR was said on another occasion the logical conclusion would be that he interests in-terests of the power dam would doubt IPSS home fare better if Mr Cannon stays at