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AND POWER hOU5f CM 8E-A3 RIVERATOlOA I," " Work of Power Company Proves Great Help to Three Commonwealths. i AT 5 o'clock tonight, as dnylight ' tm'Ba to du:k, the ujou and women wom-en in 50,000 honjns in southeast-eastern southeast-eastern Idaho, northern and Ceu-tra Ceu-tra I'tah and western Colorado may siuiiiltaueon.-ly press the buttons that will flood their rooms -with electric lifcht. Aud at the r-;nne tin:e the men iu the fni-tories and ships- ami store? and of-fires of-fires over a si ret. 'h of internioimtaiji t.i ril.or.v 300 miles lony; have turned on tbeir electric liuhrs. Daylight has waned and electricity makes bright the early evening hours. "Where does it all come from? if you stop for a moment to realize the tremendous organization and equipment equip-ment which must be uecessarv to fill a demand like this to keep eleclrieity always '-on l.'i.'' for the denmnd of the homes, the farms, the mines, the mills, the factories and the offh-es of' a territory oUo miles in extent it is easy r appreciate the difficulties involved and the problems that must be solved in perfecting such a sereic;. , For Instant Use. ' Vor electricity, isn't a comm'odity which can he ninnuf.-r tared far in ad-jwi!d ad-jwi!d ami stored Tin sty indefinitely mild mi-ld needed. Jf must, on such a large scale, be j. " manufactured ulniost as used. Suppose you get up in the night and want some hot water instantly, or you hear a strange noise and want to flood the house with light. Simply press) thei button it's second nature to do it and no one ever couscionslv stops to render if the supply will fail. ."I here arc probably more complica- fions and what, seem to bo almost, un-sulvable un-sulvable problems involved in the distribution distri-bution and delivery ol: electric current than in any other industry. And when this eld-trie current must be e Aerated, transmitted and distributed distrib-uted bo as to satisfy without a moment's delay the demand for electricity in more than 150 towns, .cities and rural com- fn 'al ' 00 r;: n ;Jt-r. u ""zU - --. . '''.. . C-.X - ' wv -V AY ; r -4 i v '"' ' -; " r -Ay v i -r --v - i y f;y w J u ;r r ':x ' y k v y ,j t j II i -" x 'iyyx'i V y-yffk x,;-C:-. U xPSa L 0r0 t0fi dG HUNDRED5 OF UTAH FARMERS tf0GW " ARE USING ELECTRICITY FOR IRRIGATION fcv. 7 Vm" PURPOSES WITH 5PLENDI0 RESULT5 rS y mnnitios scattered through Utah, Idaho aud western Colorado, with seventy hours required to travel by train from the most northern to the most southern point of tit p. territory, the problem confronting con-fronting the organization responsible for rendering a service of this nature becomes even more complex. It was but three years ago that southeastern south-eastern Idaho, northern and central Utah and western Colorado were being served by a score or more small, indi- vidiial electric, companies, the majority of them insufficiently capitalized and working under great difficulties in their efforts to suppiy even the small local 'markets for electricity lying in close proximity to their power plouts. With the organization of the Utah Power fc Light company three years ago there came a change m electric 'service 'serv-ice conditions throughout this territory, which has progressed and doveloped tVa point where today the 270.0HU people in the territory served by this organization organ-ization have inst-autly and constantly nt their command an electric service thnt is i universal, dependable and economical. Scientific management has been introduced; in-troduced; the individual electric com- : pauies have been unified and consolidated; consoli-dated; waste water has been stored; i now power houses have been erected; ! great transmission lines have been constructed; con-structed; modern substations erected and dependable electric service extended extend-ed to many towns, and rural communities communi-ties where electricity has heretofore been unavailable. Water Conserved. No achievement noted in the inter-mountain inter-mountain west in recent years has been a more important factor in the development develop-ment and utilization of natural re-vources re-vources than the organization and oper-j oper-j utiou of the Utah Power & Light com-:.nuy. com-:.nuy. The company has conducted many Important construction operations filou'g Boar river iu Idaho, where canals carrying car-rying the flood waters of the river into Gear lake have been enlarged and reservoirs res-ervoirs and dams constructed, all of vvhieh have been built with tho idea of serving the greatest, ultimate irrigation development possible, in addition to power purposes. The widening and excavating ex-cavating of Hie outlet canal leading from Bear lake to Bear river was alone responsible for making it possible to turn sufficient water from Bear lake into the river this year to Bupplv the irrigation ir-rigation demands which saved the crops in Cafhe and Gentile valleys during the past very dry season. At Grace, Idaho, on the Bear river, tho Utah Li eli t & Power company last year completed its new power house, which has an installed generating capacity of ! -1,000 horsepower. Great Pipe Line. The first 1 3. oo"-horsepower unit of the ' I new power lionso at Oneida, on the T?ar ! river, where work lias been jiro ressin ' for several years, has been completed and placed hi operation. Anions the other interesting in-teresting features of the work at Oneida is the construction of a steel pipeline that runs from rhe intake house of the Oneida reservoir down to the now yjower house, the pine heintr sixteen feet in diameter and 2(i'i0 fen kmn', the fame size as tie famous- VcAdoo iunnels under the Hudson Hud-son river at Now York. The hih-pov, er p i eel-1 ower l.ra nsmis--don lines running from the power houses on the tiea r n er iu Tdaiio s'u t h I -V miles Imo I'tah to the subst nTion and ti'i-nitnal evei-nxl stx :Mi.i o::.--half miles woi of Pa it Lak-1 ' 'in- is one of t:ie" larcrest and loudest lines of its kind in the world. Ti:e terniiTal substation i thp distribnl-inc: distribnl-inc: center of the 1 'tali Ptavrr tv I.'iit . ijomprtny's entire s!etn. Tower is re-; re-; e-dved at - trrninal snbsf; t :oi , bv one . or more nnii.es fmni all nf the power sta- tions on the sv::tem. from the T-sir river i phtnts and ail of the l.'ta li plains, whie) ; statinn -lit iced into ;i en-ral s-s;e!n and to which the customers are ah enn-, enn-, ner-tc-J. Equipment Improved. The subPbit-ior aiai switch! r.o'ks west (C ai li he ha T; i-(-o v-, j mpo:1-; mpo:1-; til m aiteminn d';rin the pr.st ycir, mv.ii-! mv.ii-! ly inci'easini: t r !aeiii;- for Mipply iu-j; ! power from tl'.e main (raiiMiiif-sion s-x't--;;-; of t::e 1'uth I'ower tv Li-'it enmpar.v i., ' Salt l,ak-X The c.tvuany's ope: a ; ions , a-l imn".c- j mli Vim-.- nn' I ico.le Mh-etric kit.-mm v' 1 j e-la!lishe I m tlie ground ;'.nm oi' the I Kcarus l.niihiin durir ihti jtar, iviip; the company one of the finest, most con-enient con-enient and commodious retail electric stores to he found in tho west. The model electric kitchen constructed in the basement base-ment of the gtore is completely equipped with every modern electrical appliance. Extensions and Improvements in service ser-vice have been made in the distribution system in Salt Lake during the past year, and a particularly interesting phase of the company's development of the power markets mar-kets in SrU Lake has been the introduction introduc-tion of electricity for use by contractois. Contractors Supplied. The equipment of portable substations lias made practical the use of electric sent ice for this work and the latest and most extensive application of the company's com-pany's service to contract! n ar operations is to be found in the electrical equipment used for the construction of the intercepting intercept-ing eewer extending from Ninth North and Eleventh West streets to Tenth South and Seventh West streets, a distance of approximately IS, 000 feet. A great pile-driving traveler, electric hoist, an electric air compressor outfit and grab-bucket gantry cranes, electrically electrical-ly opera ted, figure prominently in the electrical equipment on this work. The digging cranes used by the contractors con-tractors are equipped with electric hoisting hoist-ing motors and the electric equipment also includes four vertical-shaf I centrifugal pumps. One of the first jobs Jn which electric power was extensivclv used In the construction con-struction of sewers was the sewer extension ex-tension No. 3$ in PaR Lake City, which as awarded to the t'lon Contract in.? company of Chicago and involved the digging dig-ging of approximately seventy miles of trenches and the installation of sewer pipes varying in size from six Inches to six fe.p.t. Pumps Are Operated. This contract involved the addition of practically as much sewer to Salt Lake City's try stem as had been previously installed in-stalled during its entire history. It covered a terriiory of approximated- five square miles, extending from West Temple to Sixteenth Kast street and from Ninth South to Thirteenth South streeLs. Practically Prac-tically the entire district was heavily watered wa-tered the permanent water table varying from two to ten feet below the surface and in some cases it stuck up a couple of inches above during certain seasons of the year. The removal of this water from the trenches quickly, safely and economically, econ-omically, was one of the biggest problems in connection with the job, since, If this were not done, the excavation would be-more be-more expensive. The company found, upon studying the proposition, that its distribution lines paralleled approximately approximate-ly all of the trenches to bo lui!t, if not in the same street, within two blocks. Electrically operated centrifugal pumps are well known to be most satisfactory for purposes of this kind, where considerable con-siderable (jiauittitics of water arc to be handled, if electric power is available for supplying them. Ogden Well Lighted Eiu'ht-hu h centrifugal electrically operate,! op-erate,! puinps were installed and twenty pum; ing outfits, all electrically operuti j, handled the water from a trench sixteen feet deep, with water struck at a depth of four I'eet. No eity in the company's territory ha "enjoyed more improvements and extensions exten-sions the past year than Ogden. Od-m j Is one of the best lit. hied cities of its size in the Vnited State:--, with a total of -M7 a:o lights. 17"J of which comvirise ih.j '"White Way." An additional twenty a.c iaaips we;.; installed during K15. One of the most inipnitant electrical events nf the year in O-den was the holding hold-ing of the Electrical Prosperity Ve.-k show in Oi-den during Dec tnber. which proved one of tlie most surc-sMul oecasmns of I its ;ind thai lias ever taken p'aer- ijl th : ini f'rmiHinxuTi west. More than ln'.-; ip.opV aix-idr-d the sixu-.- in the four dn ; of irs operation, and O'den lr.u nu ''act m ers i .imrm 1 wiih Ogden eie.-'ih-a! lr.i ,---f-!-i s in j iust.1l!h:g prct en i ious and t beautiful d: - j time. bo;- of new towns thr'aimv'ut I Idaho, fta.h and Wr-tern 'olorado iir.-o ; I...;-., e.ameele,) to !!..- "Jah 'f,,-V ;i;,d 'Light: s'-.-x-'o dui;ng Xa"1 r. : Idaho Towns Ser'eth ,. : f ":t"l( i'. hht',.., .1 Im'W in : r.; . s;.;,.. ;-ic,;lti: system is :n ojr;,,i;(,l;. .,.,n j at Vf.xio- Cuy. Teton, ami .Meua-a the streets are illuminated with new lighting systems installed by the company during the past twelve months. Newdale is another Ida ho town connected con-nected to the system within the past year. At Preston, Idaho, a modern street-lighting street-lighting system has been installed, consisting con-sisting of twenty-six high -candle power flame arcs, and Preston has shown its progressive spirit by installing the first modern street lighting system in the valley val-ley in which it Is located. Lewiston and Smith field are all in line for new street Hshting systems and Garland Gar-land can lay claim to being one of the best-lighted towns in the state of I'tah. Garland now boasts of a system of twenty high candle-power flame arcs. Due to The installation of a hydro-electric plant. Mo-Cammon Mo-Cammon is securing better service than at any time in the history of the town. A new incandescent street lighting system is to be installed and a new system has already been installed in the village of Downey, Idaho. Mazda Lamp Used. The construction of a line to Beaver Dam, Utah, is now under way and it is anticipated that this thriving community will have electric service within the near future. Corinne, Utah, has been supplied with electric sen-ice during 191.5, where fifty customers are obtaining electric service, one of these being the cement products plant operated at Corinne. A distribution svstem has been contracted con-tracted for at West Weber. Street, light ing sys terns lia e been installed in-stalled by the company in tiie recently-incorporat.ed recently-incorporat.ed towns of Copperflehl and Phoenix, in the Pingham district, and at Park City the new Mazda system of street lighting is in operation. This makes the main "street of Park City a veritable white way. fiOO-candle-power lamps Iving placed 100 feet apart along the entire length of the street. Summer Homes Lighted. Rummer cot i ages in the mountain resort, re-sort, at Brighton are enjoying the. conveniences con-veniences of electric service supplied by the Utah Power & Light company, and in the Big Cottonwood mining district a number of important extensions have been made to mines. At Eureka a new street lighting system is in operation. One of the most important matters to which the company has turned its attention atten-tion is electric range cooking. This method of cooking has shown a sreat increase during the past twelve months and an encouraging sign is the enthusiasm enthusi-asm with which domestic science departments depart-ments of the various schools and colleges in the territory served hy the company are taking up the subject and instixicting their students. Every seventh customer served by the Utah Power & Light company operates an electric washing machine and practically practi-cally three-fourths of the company's customers cus-tomers are using electric irons. Ninety-six per cent of el! the residences within M'i" feet of the dist ribution lines of the company are using eicmnc servtee and more than 5i"i miles of intemrb3 n i electric lines and street railway lines secure se-cure all of their power from the TJ tab Power Light company. In addition to the improvements and extensions made to the distribution and lighting systems of the cities, towns and villages in the territory sttrvtd by the company, material extensions have been made into agricultural territorv, providing provid-ing farmers with the comforts, and conveniences con-veniences enjoyed hy (. it v people. P; these extensions hundreiis of iirv, ruva! customers have been supplied with service ser-vice during the past year. Tim new work contemplated for 191 ' will embrace the expenditure of large sums of money throughout the entire territory ter-ritory and the company will continue to pursue its policy of doing everything In its power to render an electric service of the highest efficiency and economy. |
