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Show fi SILT LUKE BIG i FIELD FOR IE I OF ELECTRICITY Via Various Power Companies f'. Find Inviting Opportunity l; 1 Here for Distribution K of Energy. - I .UTAH STREAMS SUPPLY, 'A ENORMOUS "VOLUME .I Approximately 1 50,000" Horse Power Now Developed; cai Capacity of Many Plants 'J -Is to Be Increased'. "Hi' rocont months" there., has boon in . i cm I Sn.lt Lake and Utah an extraordi- i f 0 nary amount of interest and activ-! activ-! i-Wl itv in the development of electrical i fjfi eubrny. At this time Utah companies 1 Wi have available approximate! 350,000 I tK horsepower of cnerjiy. Almost every JB eek there is news of added harnessing 4jB of water power and its conversion into jSfif electrical service, j tffl At this time three companies have i of deep interest in Salt. Lake as a field for m the distribution of light, and power. 1 Kg TIipeo nro the Utah Licht & Bailway i ju 'oinpnny, the Telluride Power company and the Merchauts Light & Power com- fit pnnv of Ogden. The first named has IK franchises in Salt Lake for all branches H of service: the second is a supplier of 1 1. vast volumes of electricity and the i I ; last named has now before the city j( I commission an application for a fran- 1 cliise.. Thus it, will be seen that Salt f Lake as a field for the sale of olectric I 1 power is an inviting one. !0 The great watershed of this part of 1 ti'C country y.'liich supplies 95 per cent of the hydro-electric energy for this re. gion is in the "Wasatch rango of mountains. moun-tains. There nro three principal rivers draining this watershed, on which the largest hj'dro-electric power generating plants are stationed. .These- aro the Boar, the Weber and the Provo rivers, all of which rise in the Wasatch range within a comparatively small area, their sources lyinc: "within a fow, miles of one another. It is from theso throe streams that, the Telluride Power companj; takes water wa-ter for its extensive system of gene-ratine gene-ratine installations. The transmission linos embraced in this system extend from Eureka, Utah, on the south, to Grace, Idaho, on the north. Grace. Idaho, is about thirty miles north of the Utah-Idaho boundary line and it is on the Ecar river hero thai the largest power genertaing plant in the Telluride syBtem is located. Its output capacity at present is 18,000 horsepower. It differs from most other hydro-electric power plants in that it is capable of a maximum output during dur-ing all the year.- In fact, the immense natural reservoir formed by Bear lake would permit thiB plant to operate at its present maximum capacity for- two years without any of the usual Bpring flood waters. Will Double Capacity. Such physical, changes are being' mnde bv the Tellurido company as, -will double the capacity of this nlant, bringing bring-ing the maximum output up to 36,000 horsepower; with the same provision for the two-year duration as now naturally nat-urally exists. j .Another site for a power generating station has been selected at Oneida narrows on the Bear river. Some work has been done on this plant and it is1 expected that the station will "be placed ju commission within three yeaTS, supplying sup-plying another 36,000 horsepower max imum capacity. On the Provo river is a power station sta-tion that is next in size, to the Grace plant. This has a maximum capacity of 10,000 horsepower and. is located in-Provo in-Provo canyon. The .generating plant next in size is located on Battle creek, just abovo Pleasant Grove. This has a maximum capacity of 4000 horsepower. In Logan cinyon, taking -water from the Logan river,' is the generating plant fourth in size, having a capacity of 3000 horsepower when in maximum sevvlce. At Jordan narrows, on the Jordan river, is the smallest plant in the system, sys-tem, having a maximum genertaing capacity ca-pacity of 1000 horsepower. Tremendous Power Available. Fully and partially developed, the to. (!.l capacity now and soon to bo available avail-able in the Telluride system is 90,000 .orscpower. That which is alread3! in t ommission is suflicient to meet present needs, but the4 demand for cheap electrical elec-trical power is increasing daily, and the company intends to keep ahead of this growing demand by enlarging its produeinc capacity in time to supply more power as it is called for. Power is now transmitted over the hiirh-tension lines at -12,000 volts pressure, pres-sure, but when the added caoacity shall be shunted into the Bystora transmio-sion transmio-sion will be under a pressure of 84,000 Volts. At present the Telluride company serves Salt Lako City, Ogden, Provo, Locan, Mercur, Bingham, Garfield and. mnny smnller settlements with energy for lieht and power, and is extending its service as such extension is demanded. de-manded. Salt Lako City and its immediate vicinity vi-cinity is the logical point at which further fur-ther extensive development of tho electric elec-tric power market will bo made. At tho -present time it is estimated that not to exceed 12,000 horsepower . in electrical energy is consumed in lt Lake for street railway, street lighting, residence lighting and power for manufacturing man-ufacturing and other industrial purposes. pur-poses. As the desirability of this power pow-er is being realized in increased extent, and as the natural growth of tho citv and its neighborhood enlarged the demand. de-mand. It is calculated that in five years to come tho consumption of electrical enertrv here will climb to 50,000 horsepower. horse-power. U. L. & R. Plants. The Utah Light & Railway company is also an extensive producer of electrical elec-trical energy, tho plants being both hydro-electric and steam-electric On the Ogden river is a plant of about 5000 horsepower maximum ca- rcompleteaTfiinar-cotinty-uc pacity. It is located on Twelfth street m Ogden, and is operated by wator under high pressure brought down from Ogden canyon. At Devil's Gate, up in Weber canyon, can-yon, is another hydro-electric statiou that produces about 3000 horsepower when operated at maximum capacity. At Riverdale, just oast of Ogden, is another plant operated by water taken from tho Weber river. This will be placed in commission in July, according to tho plans of the company, and will be of 5400 horsepower capacity ca-pacity in the maximum. The 'Merchants1 'Mer-chants1 Light & Power companv and the Salt Lako & Ogden "Railway com pany will be chief consumers of the power generated at this plant. The water used on the turbines is afterwards after-wards returned to irrigation canals, and the capacity of tho plant, under present arrangements, will greatly depend de-pend upon tho river flow at the point of intake in the different seasons of the year. There are two generating stations on Big Cottonwood creek in this county, coun-ty, the combined maximum of these two plants being about 4000 horsepower. On tho Jordan river in Salt Lako City there is a big steam plant of the Utah Light & Bailway company that is now of 11,000 horsepower capacity. Another unit is immediately to bo added to this, bringing tho' total of electrical energy to bo generated at this station to about 25,000 horsepower. horse-power. In all of the plants of the Utah Light & Railway company tho horsepower horse-power developed and developing will total 42,400 horsepower. Other Sources of Energy, The Utah-Idaho 8ugar company has a plant on the Bear river near Garland, Gar-land, Utah, that has- a capacity of 5300 horsepowor. which is being increased in-creased to U300 horsepower. This station sta-tion is practically out of commission during part of the irrigating season. sea-son. i The Knight Power company has a small plant on Santaquin creek and the Murdock station on tho upper Provo Pro-vo riven- There are alBo two small stations on the American Fork river two on Alpine creek and two on Mill creek, The total maximum output of all these is about 4600 horsepower. The Beaver River Power company, supplying electricity to Milford, ' the Star lining district, the ftewhouBe mine and mill, and to tho city of Beaver, Beav-er, is of 2500 horsepower maximum capacity., This station is on the Beaver river in Beaver canyon. In Spanish Pork canyon the United States government has a plant -which furnishes power for the Strawberry irrigation project tunnel work. After this work shall have bpen completed the plant will be utilized to pump irrigation ir-rigation water from the canal to land on thehigher levels. About 500 horse-power horse-power ib generated here. Ther are other small plants throughout through-out the state, ranging from 25 to 150 horsepower in capacity, these furnishing furnish-ing light for small municipalities. m Among all the Utah power companies compan-ies the amount of developed and developing de-veloping olecthic energy sums up a grapd total of approximately 149,800 horsepower.- |