Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-04-11 | Page 7 | Driven by Electricity

DRIVEN ELECTRICITY Great Blaino Mill of Trade Dollar Company Started TRIBUNE SPECIAL Boise Ida April 10The great Blaino millof thq Trade Dollar Con solidalcd Mining company at Silver jCJty Is now rjelng drjycn by electrical power The mill was slni led ihls after jnoon nt 53Q oclock the turning of the wheels under the electric Impulse signalizing the completiOn of one 6C the most gigantic undertakings of Its klud In the Northwest The principal ceremony of the day iwas at Swan Palls the site of the great dam twentysix miles from the mill There were galhered there a number of visitors to witness the turning on of the water and the starting of the electric geneiators Miss Nellie Hulchlnson read a dedicatory dedi-catory addresslhat had been prepared by State Engine Ross Then at 520 p mm Miss Hutchlnson moved the wheel of the governor lie gates rose ihe water poured through the Immense turbines and the great plant of machinery ma-chinery starled running as smoothly as a watch By lie time sat for the machinery to start practically the entire p6pilla iOn of Silver City wns in ami about Hi mill Th6 le lvcreno formal cere monkS atthaFdtfd of the line Mrs Joseph H JJutchlnson pulled the motor switch and the machinery started There was not a hitch anywhere The large compressor at the Dewey tunnel will be started with electric pover or Friday and the Black Jack mill on the I3lh The originator of the Idea of utilizing the power of lie < Snake river f6r the needs of the company was Joseph H Huichinson superintendent