Show ELECTRIC POWER 1 1 5 3 the the ier ear has seen a rem remarkable arkabel e if aci ef of if electric 0 power plants plant a t the he deulus 1 of t it alch follow herewith I 1 union nion light and d power company th union light I and power com sy a corporal corporation inn with a capital 1 it of 0 our four and 1 one halt half million nill llon dol s rs found it a birth as the old year ol of represented in tills this it ing awas a I 1 was a an fn nor large sa compoi alien la Is not grast capital stock but the sub an lir dilal list character ot of tire enterprise bei ass eloquent eulogies tor for tho the men inen s otiose and al loyt loyal natures nature from w v aich the enterprise be germs if e ibe I 1 lung has alady revolutionized and illume bated tile world 1 bill very recent yea deaia 8 the idea of gen tang electricity and transmitting the K trio current over long lone distances for or a purposes was waa scarcely I 1 aught I 1 or ili if practicability remained 0 jor J demonstrated locally by those prominently in the new JI 11 C figure such scroll men ftc a delft wil I 1 albany ad lion george Q cannon ident alil joseph joaeph I 1 smith senator amik I 1 nit J cannon col jolin john H R winder K bannar ter and their company alli a klales late volunteered bran braan and I 1 and finally rescued light oner ier anti ami wealth from the fatels 0 of aden river nitting these gifts life into thousands of 0 people in oddon n and yi it lake cities out As and a half elal million llo dollars had inn expended d in 1 the pioneer enter anter artst e at oad n vait jast amounts were kift disbursed in the ble big cotton colton old alth lah pleasing re illa there theme two ina companies nith thi the tit lt lake and ogden gas anti electrio hlll lit company coin pany the citizens Citizen 4 electrio lah eghi company com panr and tho little I attl cotton bod power company finally lid cd and belanio one in august 1897 ath ill the lb following lne official olT iclal titan staff ron hon fotss ggs Q cannon president col john Wh winder ider first vice president thomas webber second vice president L hills treasurer R 3 campbell see tary with joseph F smith senator it J cannon AN W S I 1 mccornack McCorn lck C and W J cui curtis ala as aa dl di clr tots this corporation controls con trola not only the market lit in salt lake valley ut t also alx the ire f the ahe baturin u wells and the artil etal gas works raile lie the ono one furnishes splendid dower vast industries are operated leollier the heat which ng rev nl so prominently in the industrial orld rid the two tivo unite in pleasing pleas lne com and illuminate the earth white whit the corporation li Is a slant giant in bength and aa sturdiness its ita purpose la is tt L as to Is too otten often the caso case with great to domineer unjustly over t winmon wealth its promoters and art are too broadminded broad minded for or lit st unton union BB as its name implies in 19 9 pre ent case la IS but il a 83 synonym for nomy anomy integrity and effi efficiency clency its bot being to serve the people rather ain dictate to them buch ch enterprises are not fraught with sc but great courses courage and public toy loy ty must form their foundations so hit his case obstacles n were ere encountered td overcome only by herculean ef c ali 9 until binally success rewarded the onKit oters ers with an enterprise the com ceness ot of which Is rn in eagerly tie dc billed below recent becent developments in electricity va made it possible to utilize water wm iwert which on account ot of their ln n have hitherto been un ts in no state has ha practical pro tu as in this line been nore rapid than 1 altah and at the present time the allu is of it salt lake and ogden are tup sup til d with light and power derived OB al the waters ot 0 tho the ogden and de big conwood canyons TIIE THE PIONEER coican COI pAN y the he plant ot of the pioneer electric ir er company vi alch was conceived 1 by sr mr C IC bannis i Is I 1 in many respects surpassed by ie be other that of the dig cotton M power company compi iny was built by mr M X jones and though smaller tham former was the first ot of its kind in IL h prior to the completion of these inn buk all dent and power in salt tit lake laka 3 ogden were ere furnished from tho the ain m plants of the suit stilt lake and Os og oas gas and electric company the citizens electric light com Y there nere therefore tour four inde dent elucille el ocille lighting companies it n operating under a separate man reent it arry ery soon on b became became alpar 1 that if these four corn companies could It rated teil under one management timings coull he be maple male in adain admin rallon on 1 a I 1 better anil and more eon eco I 1 I 1 service rould could be riven given to the emern the on owners ners of th the old elec r desired I 1 that hal the khouli oil bet 10 place d lit in tile hie bl tt at bic loal imell ir entirely n in touch with till the the patrons of the ciany a the pioneer or and big cotton fl companies were ere already con tit IM by Y loral local in dpn n ot of the highest dhir great difficulty dini culty sas os expert expel 11 in bringing together toge lher the different lettjr in but finally a affected wr ted and the union light and I 1 fr 11 company was I 1 incorporated corp orated hav aliw hand tile the I 1 of all the I 1 r 11 etric lichtin companies 1 t dowly company active operation s on tile at y ut ot lo november vember with the ex I 1 laft in an bained ed in the earlier 1 if tills article r nolley 0 tho new on company will JIM it and foremost florento to give service t unvarying arylnn aryl slid lit at rebon reason alt rates Re endlY to 10 SIO do bil business siness on a principles ni e irles the fad fact ill all cc c cad c ad ii of the he ent cpr i do de 4 1 a u IM the lh service rr rendered and I 1 it obtains ng ahe good will wil of the elti I 1 h f ahr ing do of tit the orn om Vs plant hint H int wll alvey ROMA men of 0 ir magnitude nl tuIe of new I 1 MN LIGHT AND powell CO y anton allm light slid and power company it i one in of the g moat extensive 0 1 of cl allin allt systems tor for the tile eberg and pon power er over arta ln in exist ce its system I 1 I 1 ira c call the lh territory tory in the salt i ball ey lying between ogden to I 1 i hiorth ki and enly rily to t atie 0 south with I 1 I 1 calab litty a 0 t nelna northward I 1 ill 11 lion on if in city est east I 1 n 1 10 II I 1 11 park rh city and southward I 1 i ym and mer ur the total ca 11 y of ill talc maehl nery dynow now installed udina ak i 5 oteal an and water power to 1 0 hortee hor power the th company coro pany aj sll mil of overhead 0 overhead line n X f X r truc tiOn 0 and about poles it I 1 t light and power in ogden and lake city ity anti and tho the our rounding 0 ia it t obtains its 11 power front from I 1 a lid river 1 l r from the ahe we big cottoni to a 0 rork ek fron from two steam plants lI ant in ja t ak it ally fly arid one in ili ogden aeu li n t the must flexible arld and lelly lelli it 11 n I 1 hysten 1 or Iera under one I 1 aint 11 1 1 lay 6 y 4 th ta broadly divided un tin ami in three of 41 1 plot anti nd ro RIL 1 lau la 11 lirlin athly fr for generating lly by cater one tie baill buill III bi the p i k pioneer electric rower power company at foderl and anler its other by the ilig col cat power con company y in bis big cottonwood colit conwood canyon or of those two tile iho latter wa started and tins bits beer been in operation since january 1896 and the former since slay 1897 each or of these generating stations Is 14 connected to salt halt lake by transmission lines for 1 1 ag the power there are two eno 1 in salt a it lake city for generating electricity hy by steam which blob tite kept ill ax A standby jn in can of accident t the he whole hole system bring financed arranged with a N mew few of insuring that absolute continuity of supply auppl without m which h ch lio no electric light or power company can ever hope to operate success rally fully the generating benr plant at wn ogden Is one of the largest and best equipped water P power r 11 plants ants in tire the united states stales it b baa as f frequently r bently been described in the cochill technical c a I 1 J burnan and space n will III riot not admit n of f more more thon than a brief description hero here thin plant has been constructed at an all enormous cost and Is 19 arran geet in tile the most pei feet manner possible e the water avater Is 19 taken in at a dim dam bull built t high up in tho the ogden canyon and conveyed A through a pipe six feet in diameter and nix miles long to the house where here it din discharges charges against tile the 1 w a ater ter w heels and no HO provides the power for generating electricity I 1 tile he present ln installation tall atlon con consists bits of live it 1000 horsepower horse power mater ater thecla each direct 1 coupled to tin nn electric generator the main mater atar pipe Is 14 whitted into two eno parts of tile the powerhouse and from this point onward to the point of connection with alth the consumer every part of oc the system IK it in duplicate so no that 11 disablement of one portion of the plant cannot possibly affect the running of the tire th ultimate on capacity of this plant will lie from to linice power but this win will not be available until the large laree dam for I 1 which aich the plans arc aie now teeing byln prepared Is completed the transmission system con consists of step up transformers ot of a total capacity of nf hrie powei at the hf powerhouse a pole pel line alili ly seven miles ions from ogden to in salt lake and mop down transformers transform eis ets of nc a capacity of hoise hoige power lit at salt malt take city this title line is in tile the lopped loppem in commercial use time it haa brim been built with the greatest are find and consists of cedar poles polea from thirty me lle to forty feet high and not less than ten inches at the top yet mot fifty to the mile there tire are six no 1 B A S copper m aliea it es supported on ti insulators all pt of shuh ito liae e alood a test of GO 60 WO 00 volts volla these mx wares foi form m two independent circuits cu its either or of which can bo be used itself in ease case of accident to the one from end to end of tire I 1 he line there IR in no tree or other obstacle that can possible endanger the tire line which 1 Is 14 4 constantly patrolled pati oiled by competent men the power jg Is transmitted over thin line at a pressure of volts and at this late dale the hie plant hos has a record of seventy four days continuous run without a break don n elaborate teats were made prior to the timing of the line commercially and the remarkable font feat nas performed of transmitting fund hoase power over strenty alve miles tit of wire nare at a pressure pres surp of 28 00 volts volt NN with itil a loss ines of energy of loss less than 8 per cent thus alus demonstrating the feasibility of transmitting power commercially over any up to miles the ahe generating plant tn in the WK big col cottonwood canon Is somewhat similar to that at ordon ogden but neither so large nor complete the water mater 1 Is taken in from a small email reservoir at the th head bead of the stall stairs a in the big bier Cotton cottonwood nood can cannou yon and conye con convened veed ed thence through a 9 teel steel pipe four feet in diameter to the powerhouse herf it discharge against four COO horse power water ul wheela each coupled to an electric generator I 1 THE BIG cottonwood transmission line Is fourteen miles in length and consi consists tg of cedar poles polca forty feet high set fifty to 10 the mile there are five 0 no 3 2 copper it wires ims supported on porcelain insulators these wires form independent circuits one of chichi which branches oft to supply power and aig ing to the shelters smelters sm eltera elters and the township it ahti ot of sidnay the other three continuing to salt lake city this thin line la Is operated rat 0 d at a w working 0 rk I 1 n g suro of 10 volts anti and the pou pour r la Is delivered to a transformers located at the compan companas comp anys I 1 east side hide station bit situated abed to the rear ear r of the anu knutsford Knuts is for foid it hotel otel at ogden power pomer and light la Is supplied direct from a system of 2000 volts mains run front from tire the generators tors at tire powerhouse this system covers the I 1 whole hole of ogden and a nd is in arranged arrand as far as possible in duplicate so that an accident in ono one portion of the town wilt will riot not affect the supply over the whole in to this there Is in an are arc lighting system sup supplied p lied by arc pens gons orators tra s located at the powerhouse which la is used for lighting the streets and buri houses in ogden at salt lake there li iq a more complete but very complex system for dis power incandescent and are arc lighting there are three stations known as tho the east side station west side station and central station elation at the hie mot side station are located the tram form amers era which receive and convert the the power delivered over the iho transmission line from orden ogden this station lu Is connected with the two other stations by means of 0 ano independent trunk mains built on two separate streets po that an accident on oil title one could riot not elyett effect the operation of the system by moans means of these mains I 1 it t Is possible to use ut at a moments notice either the power from ogden or broj from the bill cottonwood or from aiom the steam plants each cacti independently or all altogether at the west side elation there Is an equipment consisting of four boilers and two horse power engines malth c electrical go Kener norata 9 these can call be used in case of accident on very short notice CENTRAL STATION at the iho central station tire are located the motors arc light generators and edl hot bon chineo tho the power pomer Is delivered to this station from the ogden or from the nig big CottOn cottonwood mood plant by means of the ilie trunk trun mains tel lutc to above here also tire are located locate if bullers of a total capacity of horsepower horse power ani and engines of a capacity of about 1000 horsepower the are arc light and edison gen orators are driven by three phase altern ternate alte cu current are tit motors M alph are so BO arranged that thoy they can without any chanke whatever ho bo used as aa motors to drive the are arc lighting machinery or as generators to produce electricity when driven by the steam engina s so ho lloyl bl ile IM fit the arrangement that frequently engines have been used in conjunction with tire tho motors motor to drive the arc lighting machinery and it tins han been impossible to tell at any particular mo merit hether the electrical machinery was generating electricity or iva wan con vei the electric energy into me mc char motion the advantage of 0 this arrangement Is that it if an air accident should occur on any part of the the power pomer can hf be supplied by steam hieam it if without any interruption anti inti the alja e 2000 nolt olt alternate current system covers the aholo of c f pull jakc city and Is used for tire su bup r ply of light und and power in the lh commercial r district there Is ie lit in addition to tills this L etem an edison arn dir direct act c lj abent sy oystein stein which la Is ud ter for sup eup P lying power to drive electric and other similar machinery from this thin description it will be seen een that the union light licht and power corn com perry pany a ona ns very large sIa tern which t though hough complicated to the uninitiated Is simp e to the operators and Is arranged r with the utmost care to avoid any possibility of a bre bredonna donn in the barice in addition to the electric system described above the company compan y owns ex plants for man 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