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Show i SALT LAKERS IN A GIANT POWER PLANT What will probably "be the third great-'" est electric- power enterprise in the ooun- , try Is being launched; in which a number of Salt Lake men are largely Interested. The Shoshone Falls Power and Lighting company, backed by the strong financial firm of McDonald ft McCoy of Chicago, and in which Gov. A. T. Bliss of Michigan, Michi-gan, E. E. Calvin. Archibald M liner and Frank Knox of Salt Lake, I. B. Pen-In of Blue Lakes. Ida., and Judge Samuel Hughe of Boise are Interested, has filed Its articles of incorporation at Boise. A power plant Is already being erected on the Snake river, from which power will be furnished to the Wood River regton. Salt Lake and intermediate points. It is thought that 8uoo-horse-power will be brought here for distribution by the Utah Light and Railway company. The Shoshone Falls Power and Lighting -company la organised with a capital stock of t2.S0O.0uu, with a bond issue of equal amount. All the stock and half the bonds are subscribed. Three power plants, to develop 80.000 to 100.000-horse-power, are to be built on the 8nake river. One is to be at Augur Falls, another t t Twin Falls, and the third at Shoshone Falls. |