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Show I ELECTRICITY FOR CAMPS. Another Plant to Go in at Head of American Pork Canyon. "With which to supply the constnntly-lncrcaslng constnntly-lncrcaslng demand for electrical energy in tho neighboring camps, the management of the Utah County Light and Power company, com-pany, with its plant at the head of American Amer-ican Fork canyon, has decided on the construction con-struction of an auxiliary one, about a mile and a half above, and to that end the survey sur-vey has been completed :ind application made, said Manager John W. Wootton yesterday, for tho use of waters that will afford him as much as 1500-horse power, and which It Is his intention to put Into Bingham, Alta, Big Cottonwood and other localities that shall utilize It. With the new plant Manager AYootton, who will occupy a scat as Representative in the next Legislature from the Eleventh district, dis-trict, says ho will be ready to proceed as soon as the weather next spring shall permit, per-mit, the Juce 10 be on tap a few months Of the latest development In the Miller group of mines at American Fork the visitor vis-itor says that it has already been productive produc-tive of ores of the value of ?20.0W, these conllned to what has bvon broken down in opening up the tremendous chamber of wealth Into which the lessees have driven. driv-en. Enough has already been exposed, said Mr. Wootton. with neither wall exposed, ex-posed, and wltfi ores on top and bottom, to keep the present force on extraction for a year. Over tho development ho Is most enthusln3tlc. In the same locality ho Is also developing develop-ing property and is ono of the originators of the Goodsell, not distant from the Miller and Dutchman. |