Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-13 | Page 4 | Twenty-Five Thousand Horses

1 i i. i T Twenty five Thousand Hor Horses es ruT IT is possible for the layman to create reate for or J seif an idea o of the power of hor horses es exerted continuously a fair notion of the projected steam power generating station stat oJ of thc the Utah Power and Light company may be obtained A stout English cart calt horse at work w was the yardstick first employed in the comparison comparison com corn parison that created this unit of energy energy but bul horses must stop to rest to eat cat drink anc and sleep leep Not so with the monster generators in a power plant They're somewhat like the too popular song the song the steam goes gocs in the turbine goes goes goesL round and round turning the ma machines over over and the volt amperes come out on the line To make the size of the new plant clear to to the housewife it will produce enough pow power r to drive washing machines with a capacity load all at the same time and without letup This plant its exact location to be deler- deler i i mined will constitute a symbol of the utility's faith in Utah Its construction will give private employment to men It Jt will create a new annual payroll Its construction con con- on will consume worth of local material supplies and labor The new property will il be an important new source of taxes To operate it about tons of coal will be used yearly yearly new new income for Utah coal mines additional labor abor for Utah coal miners and new income for railroads and and their workers There ire fire re still other gains which could be added to to the list That there is need for this new energy source in this city and state is in itself a heartening heartening heartening hearten hearten- ing thing Already 32 hydro hydra stations and two steam plants serve the Utah Power and Light company's territory Th The company's facilities also include interconnection with the system driven by the vast flow of the Snake river in inId Id Idaho ho The additional present and anticipated demand for power is indicative of f resumed commercial and industrial activity and in increased increased in- in creased modernization of homes calling for the installation of electric servants t to make household household house house- holdia hold lighter Important as are the immediate immediate immediate im im- im mediate expenditures contemplated with their rel relation tion to reduction of unemployment setting setting set set- ting up a substantial new payroll and calling for man hours yearly to fill the plants plant's requirements for coal the more significant thing g is that an ably managed and seeing far-seeing enterprise ente manifests its confidence and faith region by launching the 1600 OO cont con- con t project