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Show I J. P. O'Neill Construction Comp&py of $$$.em Mm Contract tor Large Power Flaiaf. - I T o Utah Light and Eailway company, com-pany, back of which is E. II. Harriman, has under way the' construction at Devil Dev-il 'a Slide, in Weber canyon, an immense power plant that calls for tho expenditure expendi-ture of $360,000. The electrical output from this plant i is to be generated b- water diverted from tho AYeber river at a point about oDc-half mile west of Gateway, which j is the new name for Devil's Slide. This water is diverted by moans of a heavy concrete dam. fourteen feet in height and 100 feet in length, with ten five-foot wicket gates for relief of the pressure during high water. After being be-ing diverted, the water is carried in a westerly direction along the south side of the Weber river It is carried on this course through a concrcto pipe, S feet 4 inches in diameter and eight inches thick, with strong steel rein- 4. jSL VIEW SHOWING SIZE OF FIPE. : forcement. Undor pressure of ninety ' pounds per square iuch. tho wator is ! carried for 2000 lineal foci to Iho j lion with a continuous wooden stave pip, 7 feet 4 inches in diameter. This wooilon stnvo pipo runa west ward for 7000 feet to the big power 1 house. Ou a steel 'bridge of 100-foot j spans this big pipo crosses tho river, j The pipo will bo under tho maximum j head of ISO foot, with a capacity of ! .'150 cubic feet of water per second. ' This pipo will dischargo its heavy , waters, takfcu from tho Weber river above, into a .')5,000-horscpowur turbine, tur-bine, which will generate the electricity for railroad and commercial purposes. It was to the progressive J. P. O'Neill Construction company of Ogden that j tho large contract was lot for the mam- moth concrete retaining wull. to cover a distanco of J000 foot, tho giant con-j con-j crolo pipo. the rcinforcod d.unf includ-i includ-i iug tho big task of excavating for Iho , entiro pipo lino, which will total about 55,000 cubic yards. Tho amount of con-i con-i croto to be used by the O'Neill company com-pany will total over 3500 yards, i This extensive contract is under tho direct supervision of Mr. J. P. O'Neill, j malinger of Iho company, who exorcises j jealous euro of ovory litllo detail. Un- dor his ablo management this concern has grown to bo one of tho largest cou-, cou-, trading firms in tho entiro West. In additiou to its numerous big con tracts, sucn as l lie present mamniotn undertaking, the J, p. O'Neill company has done almost all of the cement work in tho city of Ugdeii. Sidewalks, curbs and gutters, nf which thero are many miles in thix citv, have been built of cement by the O'N'oill company. From the beginning, this Ogdcn firm's work has been satisfactory, both as to cost and an to results, lii addition addi-tion fo the curbing, giitterintr and side-walking, side-walking, of which the O'Neill companv has built six miles in OgdMi. thev finished fin-ished the asphalt tint paving on Washington Wash-ington nvmw . which is regarded as tho best work in America in tho .iudg meiit of the most competent; engineers in the country, wlio have gone over tho contract as completed by tho O'Neill company. Tlie company has just complotcd eightv blocks of cement sidewalks in Salt "Lako City, this work being dono during the summer. It has also completed com-pleted work in various towns and cities all over tho entire state. WHERE PIPE LINE GROSSES F.IVEK. . " " ' P.OBERT FORRESTER. It 6oldom falls to thu lot of ono man to bo no signally honored as has boon l.ho case with Utah's most noted mining engineer and geologist, who is the tuibjoct of this sketch. It was indeed an honor not to bo lightly esteemed when Robert Forres-tor Forres-tor wna called from Washington and iow lorK, wnero ins imsmoss cancu him, to lake ehargo of a party of i foreign nciuntista, consisting of "victor Wattevne, inspector general of mines of Dtdgiv.m; Curl Meissnor, councillor . of mines for Viermanv; Cap'.. Arthur I Dcsborough, II. H. inspector of ex- plosives, England, and Dr. Josflpb H ! llolinoH. chief or technological dopart-nionl, dopart-nionl, lTnilod States geographical -sur- I v.'V, who wore on an expedition of inquiry in-quiry concerning tho methods u?od in the "mining industry, of thin country. This party, under to direction or M.-. Fori ester, traveled in a private cur throughout tho Stat pi of Utah and (' Horatio Ho-ratio nnd mad" an exhaustive studv of tho various mining conditions of thone ' status. It. jrjay bo said to Iho credit uf Utah nnd hor scientific mine managers : that all ot -t litiir rocoununndationp. havo i bvcu in I'so hero in the protection of Wfc and property for sho past eighteen years. A number of these icaturos wcro made note of by thoso men for installation in tho European mines, and thoy were a unit in saying that tho methods of Utah mines wero greatly in advance of those in European countries. Born in Scotland and educated at the j Lniversit3' of Edinburgh, it was onlv natural that his mind should havo a H , a scientific turn and ho soon turned fl i his training to practical account after fl leaving college. West Calder was his fl first field of experienco from which countrj- ho came to America and chose i Pennsylvania us his first sceno of opera tions. From there ho went to Missouri Kansas and later camo to Utah. Mr. Forrester has had many positions of great responsibility sinco coming to Utah and many of the largest ooal mines of tho state wero opened Up under his supervision and upon his ad I vice. The Utah Fuel company has ! availed themselves largely of the ser vices of Mr. Forrester anil their Castle Gate mines in Carbon county wero under his ehargo for quite a while. The Diamond Coal and Coko company, of '11 Diamondville, Wyoming, engaged Ins '11 services in opening up that property for them. He also opened tho Morri til son mine for the Sterling Coal and 11 Coke company. lH His busy business career did not in terfere with his offering his services to his adopted country when the war with Spain broke out, for ho enlisted in tho Second United States Volunteer Cav-alrv, Cav-alrv, in which he served his time. Busy man that he is. Mr. Forrester has found time to cultivate the sports iH and he is an enthusiastic huntsman and ittl nshcrmau. Club lifo also claims part liH of his time and he holds memberships ll in the following: The Denver Athletic HH club, and the Alta and Commercial clubs of Salt Lako City, besides tho fol ijl lowing scientific bodies: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Forestry Association of H America, tho National Geographical so 11 cict3 the Colorado Scientific society, 'll tho American Institute of Mining En- 11 gineers of the Uuitcd States and tho aH Geological Society of Edinburgh, Miu 11 ing and Metallurgical Society of Amer fll ica. Dl Although his services aro in demand ffl from Canada to Mexico, Mr. Forrester 11 makes his homo in Salt Lake City and 41 maintains a largo suite of offices m tho Brooks Arcado, where he is surrounded I'll by his extensive library and able corps 11 of assistants. lill |