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Show BANCROFT HACK Went Hast for Consultation With Harriman System Op-crating Op-crating Head. ALSO WORKED DETAILS or1 Power house Wesfhigliousc-Cliurcli-Kerr Co. Consulting Engineers of Reserve Re-serve Steam Plant. Vice President Bancroft of the Short. 1-lne, who is also president of the Utah Light and Railway company, returned from the cast Friday. Ho was accompanied accom-panied by his assistant, F. 11. Knickerbocker, Knicker-bocker, and by Assistant General Manager Man-ager it. K. Hunt of tho electric system. sys-tem. While In Chicago, Mr. Uancroft went over various matters of the Oregon Short Un with tho director of maintenance main-tenance and operation, and . also wont Into details of the proposed reserve steam plant, which has been so fully described In Tho Tribune. Ho spent some time with tho Wcstlnghouse-Chureh-Kerr company. Mr. Kerr of that firm, an electrical elec-trical engineer, will act as consulting engineer of tho construction, the firm having the contract. This firm Is the largest of Its kind In the country, and Its connection assures the completion of k modern and first -class plant in every particular. As already stated, It is going lo be a mammoth plant and will bo a big thing for Salt Lake. Work. has practically commenced already al-ready and will bo pushod to sin early completion, and when In operation no delays can occur, no matter what may happen to tho water power plants. It will always bo In readiness. |