Show S EXPERT LUNDY IS BUSY BEGINS INVESTIGATION FOE I 5 5 STREET CAR COMPANY Outlook for New Electrical Plant Ont On-t Wet Sido Is Promising In i spectfon of Big Cottonwood Tlie intention of the Consolidated Railway and Power company to urnkc a 250000 to 300000 addition to its already al-ready extensive plant referred to In yesterdays Tribune Is only walling Ye3tm I S upon the report of the electrical expert ex-pert heie from Chicago before the dc tails of the valuable enterprise are taken ta-ken up and plans perfected for construction I con-struction The location of the new plant on the west side near the river plant is an economical move as there will bo no charge for hauling coal from thc railroad and the old Idea that such a plant must be built as near the center as possible of the street car system has long been exploded The new enterprise enter-prise will render superfluous the old I Rapid Transit generating plant on West Suvenlh South street and make the Consolidated company independent I o the freaks and agarics of the water I supply in Big Cottonwood canyon Engineer A D Lundy the expert is I spending a week in this city giving careful attention to the status of the entire city railway plant both motive I power and operating and made a beginning be-ginning yesterday by Inspecting the Big Cottonwood reservoIr and generating generat-ing plant and examining local soil I conditions He found that the poios lly of the soil made S Rol seepage easy which Is adverse to extended reservoir building arid ihen the water resources of the canyon anyway did not ueem as likely to furnish any more in the future than in the past a supply of power to bt > relied upon In the emergencies emer-gencies of street car irnfilc Mr Lundy resumes his observations I tomorrow and by I the end of the week will have a very good Idea of what It will pay the railway company to do The building of the great west side establishment would take there the repair re-pair and machine shops and the enlargement en-largement of these would naturally follow General Superintendent Read is deeply interested In the mater as he recognizes that the city Is growing und the demands of street railway travel are Increasing correspondingly I and proposes to have the slreet cal I system In a cond I lon to respond at ill llnies to public demands no mailer I mai-ler how severe they may be |