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Show Street Car Line Extensions I Indicate Salt Lake's Growth I (Continued from Preceding Page.) 1 TUB expansion of a city's public utilities Ik perhaps one of the best Indications of the growth of the city. This Ir particularly true ot Its electric railway and llght-Infc llght-Infc and pou-or systems. Salt Laku City has a Just right to be proud of Its pcrformanco pcr-formanco during the past year, judged from this standard, and It 1b doubtful If any other city In the country could produce pro-duce an equal record. The Utah Light and Railway company handles tho entire electric light and powor and Htrcct railway facilities In this city, and It has covered practically tho entire area within the city limits in a most comprehenslvo way with street railway and electric: light and power lines. During the past year ten and one-halt miles of street car tracks were added to tho street railway system. This Included In-cluded the extension running east from tho high school to Fifteenth East and south on Fifteenth East to tho state prison, a distance of two and one-fifth miles. This extension was completed, and service Inaugurated on tho lino on November 1. Unusual building activity In tho territory served by this extension is sura to result In the early spring. .HolIicJay Extension. The extension t0 Holllday running south along tho Territorial road, a distance dis-tance or five and one-tenth mllos from Sugar House, was completed arid tho line put in servlco August 15th of this year. This extonHlon opons up an unusually large und fertile territory lylnr south-cast south-cast as a suburb of this city. It Is especially well adapted to truck gardening and Intenslvo farming and It is to bo hoped that Jn tho near futuro both the Inhabitants of this suburban section and the city may bo able to obtain the benefits bene-fits of a suburban trolley express, so that tho farmors' produce may be placed on tho city markets In tho least practical prac-tical tlmp and at a smnll expense. Tho company completed during the past year tho double tracking of Its lino on State atroot between Salt .Lake City aim Aiurray. total or two and four-fifths four-fifths miles of additional track wero required re-quired to complete this job. In anticipation antici-pation of tho construction of tho stato cap! tol, tho company hns extended a double track on North Main from First North to Second North streets, and it is not unlikely that cars will bo operated to tho capltol grounds during the coming year. The company ha3 completed during the past year a finely appointed stablo with a capacity of 40 wagons and horses and the machine shops, paint and carpenter shops have been comploted and put In first-class operating condition during the present year. The company Is as well prepared as any street railway In tho country to attend to the repairs and malntenanco of its equipment. Tho new car shops aro so complete that tho company could build all of Its cars If it elected to do so. Big Increase This Year. The company's records show' an increase in-crease of 1600 residence customers during the past year, and this amounts to a ton per cent Increase. Fifteen hundred of theso aro new houses built and connected con-nected for tho first time, the rest representing repre-senting houses reconnected. The growth of the company's commercial and power business has been unusually satisfactory. Thcro has .been an increase of approximately approxi-mately 750 horse-power Jn new Installations Installa-tions connected during tho year; but the most satisfying feature of the business has been tho resumption of normal operations opera-tions by a large number of tho power customers who had previously operated at much less than their capacity. On April 1 of 1912 tho company made a 'reduction In Us rates amounting to approximately 10 per cent. It is interesting inter-esting to note, however, that the reduced rates put Into effect materially stimulated stimulat-ed the demands for electric service of all classes, and many customers who had previously used some other form of light or power have changed to electric, so that the reduction in tho company's revenues rev-enues has not boon ao groat as might have been expected from tho reduction In rates. Additional Power. On April ;:0 of this year work was started on the Installation of an additional addi-tional 11,000 horse-power turbine unit to the company's reserve steam plant on the Jordan river. Record time was made on the Installation of this additional unit. and It WaB comnleted and rnflv fnr cor. vice on August 20. somewhat less than four months after beginning work. With tho completion of the second unit at the Jordan steam plant, the company is now prepared to generate by steam a continuous con-tinuous load of 22,-100 horse-power, which offers ample Insurance for the continuous continu-ous operation of Us entire system. The company lias also materially Increased In-creased tho capacity of its water power plants. At tho Pioneer station at the mouth of Ogden canyon a storage reservoir reser-voir with a capacity of 0,000,0(10 cubic feet of water and an equalizing reservoir reser-voir below the plant Is Hearing completion. comple-tion. At the plant two 3750 horse-power modern water turbine units are being Installed to replace the units which wore originally installed iu this plant In 1SH6. Thc30 Improvements will provide an additional ad-ditional capacity of 3000 horse-power. In Cottonwood canyon a storage reservoir reser-voir has been Installed above the upper or Stairs station, with an equalizing reservoir res-ervoir below tho lowor or Granite station, sta-tion, to be used during the hours when the demands for lighting and power are heaviest. The design and construction of water wheels have been so greatly Improved during the past few years that tho company can well afford to scrap the water wheels which were originally installed at these plants and replace them with modern and more efficient wheels, thus getting much greater value from tho water passing over them. Tho Improvements Im-provements In the Cottonwood canyon will Increase tho company's! generating capacity from this sourco by 2000 horse-power. horse-power. "'""'. Transmission Lines. . H The voltage on the steel tower tran-mission tran-mission line frqm Ogden to Salt Lak JH has been Increased from 28.000 to 40,000 'H volts; the losses In transmitting the en-ergy en-ergy have been materially reduced as a result of this Increase in voltage. th waving in this way amounting to ap- PTI proximately 2000 horie-powcr. Tho com- nUil pany hns extended this steel, trannmls- IIIM slon. line to the receiving Bub-statlon or the Salt Lake & Ogden Railway com-pany com-pany and has supplied for tho past six months the power requirements of that A modern sub-station has been com-plelcd com-plelcd aL Ogden. which puts the company In a position lo supply first-class service for light, power and railway customers WM In that city. One hundred and sixty-six additional street aro lamps have been installed at ' various locations throughout tho cltv. The moat notable development of street lighting, however, has been the installa-Hon installa-Hon of the so-called Great Whlto Wav. Standard four-ampere luminous arc Iamn MM havo been Installed on each trollov pole over, a dlHtancc of approximately two and-one-fourth miles. These trolley polos ar Mfli spaced 100 feet apart on each aide of MJi tho street, making fourteen arc lamps per block throughout tho entire distance. This special lighting has been Installod on State street from First South to Ninth faouth, on Main street from First South lo Third South, and on Broadway from Second West to Third East streets. The illumination of those streets now com-pares com-pares favorably with similarly lighted streets elsewhere. |