Show Reply To Mr i Plan of Bonneville j Settlement Editor Clipper Last bast we week J in your v valuable Iu columns appeared a letter by Mr H II J Steiner in which he set out his plans to settle the troubles of the Bonne Bonne- Bonneville Bonneville ville district j Summed up in a few words his plan is this He v will ll sell what rights he has in Mill MiU Creek canyon crater for electric power purposes to com com- company com company pany A A Which company is to build an electric power plant in in the can can- canyon canyon yon with also alO a distributing s system tem for SOO homes with a 3 line to the ille Conne pump house He claims that power can be generated much cheaper than we are now getting it for and that this will mainly be the means of settling the Bonneville troubles We dont don't question Mr Steiners Steiner's good intentions but we do disagree with his plans plan promises and figures And we are convinced that tint this plan rather than settling the e Bont leave us with a astill a still greater trouble and out out of which we wei i could not hope to extricate ourselves I If the Utah Power Light Co is charging too much for far their power powel there is a pr proper per way way- to go about getting the price lowered We know that this big company with Its ts huge power plants can produce power at a third the me price price that a little plant could in Mill Creek The fact that several towns town's in Utah which formerly former former- formerly h ly owned o their own plant and system have sold out to this company company- because be- be because be because cause it was costing costing- them more to generate their own power than to buy wore same should be a warning to others Because Mill Creek can canyon on is so soI I steep that it does not provide forthe for forthe forthe the of water it would follow that any any power plant built there thele could depend only on the natural natural natural al system stem flow flaw for generating power this when the can canyon on water is the lowest as it is now is just the time when the rhe Bonneville pumps would re- re reI re require I 1 quire the greatest amount of power It t is not possible for the few see sec second sec second ond and feet of water running down the T canyon in August to generate power pov enough to lift five fi to ten times this amount of Jordan water feet up the hillside e besides furnishing light and power for the homes he plans for This demonstrates how bow absurd the prop proposed sed plan is In case Mr Steiner has a further plan of impounding spring flood wa- wa waters waters wa waters we know that some rome years ears there are re no flood water to sure save and it would be Ie durin during just such a year ear that our Bonneville Bonne pumping requirements would be the greatest It would be folly to even consider a plan which could not function during during- dry years ears Before considering Mr 11 Steiners Steiner's 1 figures we should keep in mind that it is much easier for some men to figure on paper how to to make a a million mil mil- million mil million lion dollars donors than tinn for the same man manto manto manto to get out and earn cam ten dollars He figures his A A company would get per year ear for pumping Bonneville water which is far more than we have ha had to pa pay the Utah Power Light Co yet et he complains of their high prices lIe He figures on selling 20 second sl-cond feet feete e of mountain water per day day- dl for six months each year to tn the dry r bench benchland benchland benchland land at but doesn't say this this water waler will come from or what it would cost to put it on the bench benchland benchland benchland land His item of profits for pow pow- power er or sold by his A A company to near near- nearby nearby near near-by by proposed cold storage and ice manufacturing plants should class his ideas as a disorderly dream instead in- in instead in instead stead of a well thought out plan B By his own figures the proposed I power plant would cost OOOO which is almost as much as it would take to settle the whole Bonneville me matter If he e expects the people here to raise anise this huge sum he will willbe willbe willbe be badly mistaken and if he could raise this amount himself we believe that he would put it into a tion that had at least some chance of su succeeding ling A At t present there isan is is- an excellent plan already worked out to settle the Bonneville s situation tu tion it is not prop rely understood b by all and we should not allow nn anything thing without greater merit to draw us awa away from this good plan Respectfully J yours HAMMOND H THATCHER Attorneys |