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Show OFFICIALS IR1SPECT GREAT STEAM PLAIT President Baneroft Says If Will Re Best of Kind in West. i I .: ! "YV are going to have tho finest plant I of Its kind in the west." remarked President Presi-dent W. B. Duncrof: of the Utah Light & Railway .company. Friday afternoon. 1 Ho had Just returned from a visit by : automobile 10 the Immense reserve steam plant that Is olng up on the banks of ' tho Jordan and which was described j tome "months ago In Tho Tribune. Ac-I Ac-I companyliiK him wuro Assistant General i .Manager It. ID. Hunt. Engineer O A. Honnold, General Attorney P. L.- WU- Hams and Secretary F. II. Knickerbocker .of the same" company. Tho officials' went over all the ground and arc very much impressed with the rapidity with which the contractors on the bulldlnt; I have moved along. Within two weeks I tho roof will be partly finished, and i within sixty days the mnchincry will be I Installed. Ah explained heretofore, the plant Is 1 to bo a reserve power house which will bo kept ready for any emergency, and at the slightest troublo or stoppago of the current derived from tho water power pow-er plants this new power houso can be used to furnish tho power for tho entire street car and lighting system. It will bo In readiness day and night and will prove a great help to tho operating department de-partment of the growing system. The placo at present Jsa perredt hive of industry- with a very large force of men at work" on the building proper and the stack. The latter will he L'2r feet high and 19 feet 6 Inches In diameter at the ground. |