Show WATER POWER o MINING Hydro electric power er plays a very I important part in the mining Industry industry industry indus Indus- try try in the state of Utah Nearly Kearly all aU of the producing operating mines in the state u use hydro-electric hydro power for carrying on the drilling pumping haulage and other mining operations and all all all' ore re concentrating Is done by electric power Power distributing companies consequently have power lines extending over known n mining territory in practically practically practically cally all parts of the state thus en enabling enabling enabling en- en abling the prospect mines to secure j I electricity for carrying on 01 development develop develop- I ment work at the minimum of ex ex- ex pense In fact in In r many instances the development work could not proceed if It were not for the availability availability availability avail avail- ability of a reliable source source of hydroelectric hydroelectric hydroelectric hydro hydro- electric power There is used in the state of Utah approximately 0 kilowatts In Inthe inthe inthe the mining Indus industry n of which amount about kilowatts is used in coal mining and the remainder r in metal mining Electricity used in mining In the state state- of Utah at the present time time approaches kilowatt hours per da day This translated Into conservation conservation conservation con con- of coal resources means that if this power were generated by o steam by the individual mines the coal consumption equivalent to nearly one half the coal output 0 ol of the state of Utah in 1923 The greatest single undeveloped I power resource In the state of Utah is on the Green river which Is a tributary of the Colorado From Green River Rivet Wyo to Green River Utah the Green river has bas a fall of approximately 2000 feet 90 per cent of which is probably subject to hydro-electric hydro power development With nth proper control and development development development develop develop- ment of the flow of the river In excess excess ex excess ex- ex cess of horsepower can be he developed The rate charged for electric service ser ser- vIce in the state of Utah is approximately approximately matel 62 per cent of the average charged In the United States ap approximately approxImately approximately ap- ap proximately 85 per cent of th tit average aver aver- average age for the Pacific and mountain states and approximately 17 47 per percent percent cent of the New England stat states where here electric service is the high high- dst st. st st. |