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Show mn rat mem m m mwrnm WITH NOT 0f POWER ONES ! . i , ' . Work Begun on New Bear River Plant of Telluride Power Company to be Completed Next Nay- Other Big Projects Pro-jects by the Same Corporation. . . Further evidence of the gigantic plans for the Indus-I Indus-I trial development of 'Utah, and particularly, of the Salt ' i Lake valley, are shown in the plans of the Telluride Power company for the distribution of electrical energy over a wide territory. - All' this means BOOST for Salt Lake and the thriving cities and mining camps of this region. It is the forerun-; forerun-; ner of fast interurban railroad service, of the establish-! establish-! ment of new manufacturing and mining plants. It fulfills the prediction made by THE TELEGRAM years ago that ?' pjj&is to become the "Pennsylvania of the West." ! Ayprty of prominent officials of the Telluride Power company, consisting of L. L. Nunn, manager; A. L. Woodhouse, (superintendent? F. F. Steigmeyer, attorney at-torney for the company; L. B. Fuller, . ' chief engineer, and a large number of sthe office force, passed through Salt j Lake yesterday on their way to Grace Ida,, where the company's biggest plant; is '.being rushed to completion. The party followed a large shipment of '. laborers sent earlier in the day. The purpose of the journey is to con-:- eentrate all the efforts of the Telluride Power, people en the big plant en the Bear rirer so as to get it finished by Hay 1 "next spring, when it will be imperative im-perative that its tremendous outflow of energy will be emptied into the Tellu-ride Tellu-ride trunk system to meet, the large requisition that will be made by the consumer of electricity by that time. Big Force at Work. The construction force at Graee is being augmented to the limit so as to fet the plant finished on schedule time, his great power plant, which requires the entire flow of Bear river at low water to run its monster wheels, which reeeive the impact of this great volume of water from a vertical head of 500 feet, will when finished produce 20,-000-horse power of energy and will constitute con-stitute the largest single power plant in this intermountain region. By May 1 the plant will have been completed, the wires will have been strung to Logan, where connection will be made with the company's big loop system of wires, which already extends ex-tends as far south as Tintic. Will Have Fine Plants. The company has now in Utah two big plants which feed its extensive system of wires, and will have four, power plants finished by May 1. In addition, it is projecting a- plant on Rock creek, Wasatch county, and on . Beaver river, Beaver county. All except ex-cept the latter belong to the grand loop system of wires that are covering northern Utah, which will, when com-pleAeS, com-pleAeS, supply 54.000-horse power of erfMoy for the growing mining, mill-smelting, mill-smelting, manufacturing and trac-t trac-t enterprises of the northern half of . odr Stat. " - , The pioneer plant . of the system is Bear Provo. It generates 12.000-horse power of energy. The only other plant completed is the 3000-horse power plant near Logan. Wonderful New Plant. The first plant of the unfinished ones to be completed is near Pleasant Grove, Utah eounty. Utah, on what is known as Battle creek. This will be a 4000-horse 4000-horse power plant, and work is being pushed with such ene.rjy upon it that its completion in February next is assured. as-sured. . . , la many respects it is the most won-derful won-derful plant of all. Situated in a region re-gion which breaks precipitately down toward the valley,- the enormous vertical verti-cal head of 1840 feet is gained in less than two miles. So great is the pressure pres-sure caused from such an enormous - head that the strongest steel pipe, one .nl n-fnurth inches thick, is required will be led nine miles to secure a head of 985 feet from which it will be droroed onto fifteen Pelton wheels generating gen-erating a tremendous output of energy. Big Loop System. This great electrical current will be led almost to Park City, where it will branch, one wire going down Provo canyon can-yon and connecting with the system near Provo, and the other wire going via Park City and connecting with the system in Salt Lake valley. It is the purpose of the Hrompany 'to form as many such loops in its system as possible. possi-ble. The loop system possesses the advantage ad-vantage that.it supplies electricity.-to every point from opposite directions. In this way it will become difficult for any i point to become isolated, and repairs' may be-made, -eu sections f ,h.er line without isolating any point. f ' To Supply Mining Camps. Parallel with the completion of the four of these live plants is the completion comple-tion of important lines for the distribution distribu-tion of the electricity. .!Not the least of these lines is the one projected to the big Boston Con. reduction plant at Garfield, Gar-field, and then by the way of completing complet-ing the loop on to Bingham Canyon. This line will have been completed Mav 1, and will absorb much of the power poured into the system from Grace, Ida. The Boston Con. plant, which' is to be perhaps one of the biggest in the world, with a daily tonnage whose figures fig-ures are startling, will take a vast amount of electrical energy, as will the vast operations connected with the mining mi-ning and carrrying and smelting of ores in and out of Bineham. The Telluride Power company has already ordered its poles and wires for this part of the system, and expects to be constructing the lines in a short time. Vast Network; of Wires. This gigantic power system, when completed, wilj cover the northern half of Utah with a network of live wires, and stretch far into Idaho, lighting towns, running cars, turning machinery, heating and performing scores of other useful functions in a region destined to be noted ere long for its gigantic enterprises. enter-prises. Another Big System. Down in southern Utah is another system to be, centering in a single plant, but reaching out its tentacles to half a dozen towns and mining camps. Less than two weeks ago water rights were secured on the Beaver river, in the mountains east of Beaver, Utah, as the foundation of the enterprise. Since then surveys have been mad. and now twenty men constitute the growing construction force, which will have had the plant erected and in operation by next fall. Here the Beaver river will be led to an enormous head, and will generate 2700-borse-power. This plant has no rival to speak of in the entire southern country, and will suuplv power and light to Beaver, Milford. Frisco, Xewhouse, Kimberly, Marys-vale, Marys-vale, Nebo and other points. " The operation of the Telluride Power company in Utah is on a much larger scale than in Colorado, the State where the company was organized. Both the individual plants and the system are on a much larger scale here than in Colorado. to contain the water. With such a pressure, only 20 second-feet of water, air that is available, is needed to gen-' gen-' erate 4000-horse power of energy. An unique feature connected with ; this plant is the steam tramwav. which ! Is so steep that 1500 vertical feet are gained in 3200 feet of road. Thirty men are working on this plant : and will have it finished in February. Big Project in Wasatch. The last of this quintuple system of power plants to be finished the orte on Rockvcreek, Wasatch county will not be ready for use until one or two years, although a party of men will arrive on the site next week and will begin work, i This work is understood to partake of i the character of surveying and break-, break-, ing the ground more than anything i else. Next summer a large, force of 5 men will be put at work building the 1 pl"t. and ere another year rolls around j ft il have been finished. I "f will be a 15,000-horse-power plant, i tbeheeond largest in the system. Bock I creik is the principal branch of theDu-chesne' theDu-chesne' river, and widens at two differ-' differ-' ent points into lakes. These will be ' transformed into reservoirs for the pur-! pur-! pose of supplying an even volume of water for the whole year. The water I - i k j ......... |