Show MILFORD BIDS FOR New Electric Lighting System of Most Modern Type to Be Installed WATER OF PUREST QUALITY QUEEN CITY OF SOUTHERN UTAH HOPEFUL Special to Th The Herald by Stan Staff Cor Correspondent Correspondent Correspondent respondent Utah Oct 10 There is no nomore nomore more sure sig of ot a towns commercial progress pro ess than the attitude it takes takes to toward toward ward vard innovations which the business spirit of or these times brings before it for tor consideration In this respect Mil MI Milford MIford ford tord is rapidly taking its place in the front rant rank of or other progressive clUe of or wideawake Utah It is leaving be behind behind behind hind it the well but no longer feasible traditions and customs of or the past it is replacing the luxuries of ot fifty lifty years yens ago with the modern necessities and is exhibiting a spirit of ot en enthusiasm enthusiasm n and alertness that Is preg pregnant pregnant nant Ilant with hope for tor Its citizens as well as for those who are attracted hither as potential investors latest act of 0 enterprise is isto isto Isto to avail itself Itsel of oC the proposal of or the Beaver River JUver Dam company to supply the electric current to light the streets and keep the wheels of at industry mer met merrily lily rily spinning The city has just or ordered tiered Jared the Installation of sixteen arc lights lI for or the illumination of ot the streets Considering the area to be lighted this magnanimous act on the part of or the town board will put the city on a relative equal with Salt Lake and Provo In the matter of oC efficient il ii illumination illumination Lights of Modern Type The arcs are to be of ot the flaming kind so 16 widely Idly used In the best ap appointed appointed pointed business houses cafes caCes public b aid ard an places pla cs where a brilliant light is required It is pro proposed posed to install them in m such a manner that the failure of ot any an one light to will not invalidate the suc operation of ot the other This in terms is known as a mul connection in contra distinction o 0 the series connection The arcs ares will vili be effective at five and amperes and volts thus 60 watts In other words they thy will be equal eual to the combined ef ee effect of eleven power in incandescent candescent lamps but furnishing a alight alight alight light of or greater carrying power per lt itt tt consumed Whence Comes the Power The source of or current Is the power station of the Beaver River Power company situated in the picturesque canyon Cunyon of the Beaver river anti ami dis distant distant tant taut from Crom Milford about miles nilles With the usual foresight and faith that distinguishes Us Its men the Telluride Power company com pan at Provo sent its engineers and business men down loWn here to establish In that far out of oC the he I way wa place an and finely finel equipped power station and to build a transmission line capable of i trying Ing across the vast tracts of hilt hite desert the mysterious generated by the th great wheels revolving under a head of or water pro proC C dui lut ing a mean effective pressure of pounds to the t square inch inh So well hen these thes men done one their work that from the moment the water was let Into the penstocks and directed against the tb turbines by ly b the giant nozzles to the present sf nt time the service has all been continuous Over Miles of Desert OWr OVir miles and miles mites of or sand rocks the pole line carry carrying carryIng carrying ing the th high potential current runs tH till it finds a rest in the power station n o mills and ami hoists at which it operates sixty miles from Crom its starting point On its way wa the wires pass elope close to Milford and the enor enormous TOUS rous line voltage volts is trans transformed transformed transformed formed to and sent into the town From this voltage It is stepped down onre more to a H voltage sufficient to operate lights lI and motors motor Has Pure Water With ith this available source of oC power at Its doors Milford has ha not been slow In IP accepting acc the generous proposal made by b the officials of or the Beaver River Power company to supply tha thac th c for Cor The lights and for the mo pumping system which the town has hM ha now installed Pure water from a deep well is now raised alsed J to a concrete reservoir standing on an eminence to the west of o town and from that plant Is carried to the tho homes S and buildings s An automatic float switch at tho the reservoir r s operates the motor on the pump at the well an maintains a constant elevation of or wa water water ter Besides furnishing the town with good water this is of enormous advantage ci tage tag in the case of or a fire breaking out at It t any an Ume time for the firemen know that they the are prepared to fight it with witha witha a good supply With these those appliances in installed Int installed stalled t d with the available electric cur current current current rent on on its Ith streets with a location so central Intra relative to the big mines u uJ uder der development around it and with a town full of busy active people Mil Mi Milford Miford ford tord The Queen City of oC Southern Itah presents to the world features worth consideration for Cor the home seeker r and the investor alike |