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Show NEW LIGHT PLANT TO COST $150,000 Special to The Tribune. AME1UCAN FORK. Now 2S.-Tho auxiliary electric light and power plant which the Utah County Light and Power company of this place Is arranging to Install In-stall one and one-half miles above Its present plant, in the American Fork canyon, can-yon, will, it is estimated, cost about $1W,-000. $1W,-000. Tht location survey Is completed, and when the board of directors meets during the coming month It Is expected that dellnlto arrangements as to the time it will commence the construction will be decided upon. It Is expected that the new plant will furnish light and power for the Utah Copper company's mill at Bingham canyon. The main cause of tho erection of the auxiliary plant Is the excessive demand de-mand on the present plant for more electric elec-tric power. It will, In all probability, be used to a good advantage as a motive power for affording a better means of conveying tho ore down the canyon, which the unusual activity In the canyon the past year has produced. Mrs. Frank D. Hulsh of this place, who was brought down from Idaho suffering Itli a severe case of typhoid fever, is sufficiently recovered to be( able to get around again. Stephen Clements, who for the past year has been Inspecting the possibilities of Idaho, has returned homo for the winter, win-ter, and says that ULnh Is good chough for him. ' The bazar which was held here last week proved very successful, netting somewhere, near SC00. Miss Fern Featherstono of this place, who has been .suffering with an attack of diphtheria, Is sufficiently recovered to get around. The forty teams which have been hauling haul-ing oro from American Fork canyon mines have diminished to about four. However, as soon as the weather will permit the activity will bo renewed. sonW Eastern capitalists having become grcat-lv grcat-lv Interested In the canyon mines. ' Peter Adamson, known as "Scott." came down from the Wyoming mine In American Fork canyon yesterday. He reports re-ports tho property In an exceptionally line condition. Local railway men are rejoicing ex-tremolv ex-tremolv over the reinstatement of A. E. Wclby as division superintendent of this division. Over 40.0GO head of sheep have passed through American Fork on their way from the summer range to tho desert, where they will be wintered. Paul Stewart of this place Is down from, the canvon and expects to return tomorrow. tomor-row. He Is engaged, with four other miners, on the Surprise prospect, owned bv Judge Baskln of Salt Lake. This property prop-erty directly adjoins the Miller Hill, where the recent big strike has been mado and Mr. Stewart states that It Is onlv a question of a fdiort time until they encounter the same ore which has made tho Miller Hill famous. At present they arc working on a very promising load. |