Show BIG BIASES APPLICATION FOR POR A POLE FRANCHISE ER S Plan to Unite the he Logan and Provo Plants Win Will Generate Gen rate Power Horse 2 In line with t announcement jn The Herald that the Telluride J Electric Power Po ver company of Provo and the Her Hercules cules culea Electric Power company of Qt Logan I would merge their interests and nd soon on be in the local market mark t fo to supply cur current current current rent for light and power te a a petition Ution was W presented yesterday to the county commissioners by L L 11 Nunn Nunu the chief stockholder and authorized representative re live tive of both companies companion requesting raqu ting a franchise for constructing CO and operating operating ing lag an electrical transmission line lipe of poles and wires over the highways in Salt Lake county The petition was re Fe referred to the committee on roads with the county attorney at orney associated That great things are contemplated by the Hercules and Telluride Power PWet companies in competition with wIt the Utah Uth Light Power company and the Jor Jordan r dan Narrows Power company is dIn dis closed ed in Mr Nunns petition p It is re 1 in the petition as heretofore set forth by The Herald H d that the power I plant Which derives its itc power from Logan Legan river and the one Which biCh is lo Ic located at the mouth of Provo are ar preparing to generate electrIcal l en energy energy ergy Orgy of horsepower in combination tion for supplying the needs of ot oI consumers ers era in the counties of Cache Weber r 1 Salt Lake Davis Morgan Uta Tooele and Juab It ts is stated that the purpose in view is to supply current to the mines and end mills in the surrounding mining dis dig districts and in order to effectuate the plans maturing it is intended to extend the pole line now penetrating the min ada mini i ing ins districts of Mercur and Tintie over the mountains mount to Bingham Binham and thence I toward this city via Murray connect I Ing lag north of this city with the pole line Une coming down from Logan making a source of f electrical energy for all commercial and nd industrial needs lover I over the territory t traversed It i is for the poles across the highways lof 1 i of Salt Like Lake 1 l e county that de I j sires a franchise from the cOmmission cOmm ers era of this county but similar requests will be Ito made probably to the commis 1 t sinners of the other counties named I In the granting of the request reque et t of o the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone corn com company I pany for the privilege of erecting and nd maintaining a 8 new line of poles on onI I State street from Tenth Ten th to Twelfth j South the commissioners yesterday yes erdlY set seta sett t a new pace pac The Phe grant was J 1 made Oade de on condition that the telephony t company 1 allow the county from time tinse to time I j such su h reasonable compensation for the rhe I privilege as the county commissioners may fix It was stated that the clause means what it says but ft is believed that the th telephone company will want the terms more clearly defined before accepting the grant The grant has other strings attached such suh as that the new pole Ole line shall be bea a afoot foot east of the rite Rapid Transit AA pj n tt lines poles but in such mann man manI i rt to interfere with wits the Rapid Transit T th it rights nor with the tle ordin ordinary ordinary ordinary ary use of f the highway and to the satisfaction of tile te county nIss on ers |