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Show LARGE POWER PLANT HEARING COMPLETICH Will Generate Electric Power for All Portions of the State.. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. 3. By early spring the mammoth power station which Is being built near tho mouth of Weber canyon by the Utnh .Light and Railway company, for the purpose of generating electric power for nil portions of the state, will be completed, according to officials of tho company. A corps of engineers has arrived In Ogden for tho purposo of Installing In-stalling tho power wheels In tho station, and will begin work as soon as portions of tho machinery arrive, Tho plant will have a capacity of 5000 horsepower and will bo run by water power taken from the Weber river. This water is diverted from thc river Into one of the largest pipe lines In the world, which Is said lo be one of the most remarkable re-markable feats of engineering ever accomplished ac-complished In thc west. The lino was built by thc J. P. O'Neill Construction company of this city, and was recently completed at a cost of over $1,000,000 Before the power station Is finished, the company will begin tho erection' of transmission trans-mission lines from thc station to Salt Lake City and other parts of Utah. |