Show UTAH POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY TO FURNISH JUICE TO COAL CAMPS according to the price sun about the most striking change 6 in the operations of the big utah coal companies that has been made lately is noted in the announcement announce that the utah fuel company will make connection with the utah power and light companas Comp anys line for power at all its camps the new line over to the steel companas comp anys camp just opening at columbia an extension from kenilworth will also supply sunnyside Sunny side this line has already been surveyed as was told in the sun a couple of weeks ago A line built up to scofield last fall will require only short extensions to reach winter quarters and clear creek the main transmission line coming down from provo right by castle gate and no new construction will be required to make the tap at that point with all of the utah fuel companas Comp anys camps on the load of the power company in carbon county will be more than doubled castle gate will be taking current from the power line within a month the other camps will be somewhat later in switching over it is likely that it will be a year before the entire load at sunnyside Sunny side is converted the line to this camp will be finished by july but there will be many changes to make in equipment before all of the operations can be transferred the big line coming down from utah county is of ample capacity to carry carrall this load extending for seventy miles from provo to carbon county this line bears a remarkable record it has been in operation about seven years and has never suffered a single breakdown from electrical sources pole towers have been carried away by landslides some have been burned some other troubles have beset the operations but not a single electrical failure has come to this line the change in the policy of the utah fuel company which will result in buying this power quite likely marks the final ending of the idea of putting up a central power plant to run by team steam to be generated by the waste or slack coal discarded from the local mines the current to be then transmitted to the surrounding camps and towns when the athe power company built the line down to this district the utah uta fuel company retained the old steam plants at its various camps and did not follow the other coal operators in taking power from the transmission line changes in the personnel of the officials in charge abarge 6 of the coal concern together with the ever increasing Z efficiency with which the power company serves its customers ha has s worked for the 6 gradual elimination of the central plant idea ide a and acceptance of power from the big general source which taps the streams of utah and idaho and which is constantly adding to its several plants and lines even now with all the big plants put up during the past few years along the bear river river in northern utah and southern idaho the power company finds itself pretty well loaded and the big plant at grace idaho is is being given increased capacity within a very few years this company will be obliged to put plants out on the green river probably the first development to be made in that locality will be up near the alie I 1 utah J tall W line lille |