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Show UTAH POWER 8c LIGHT SPENDS MUCH TO IMPROVE FACILITIES More than $1V4 million was spent by Utah Power & Light Co. during 1950 for improvements improve-ments to its electrical facilities in Salt Lake valley and the Coalville-Park City and Tooele areas, J. C. Littlefield, UP & L's Salt Lake division manager, announced announc-ed this week. This money was expended principally to increase substation capacity and rebuild and extend distribution lines in the Salt Lake metropolitan area and at Mid-vale, Mid-vale, Tooele, Coalville and Woods Cross. A 25-mile power line to serve the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's Rec-lamation's Duchesne tunnel project pro-ject also was completed during the year. In addition to this, Mr. Little-field Little-field pointed out that several millions of dollars were spent by the company for its new Gadsby steam-electric plant now being built on the west outskirts of Salt Lakee City. Cost of this work, he asserted, is just one part of the $13 million mil-lion Utah Power spent for construction con-struction in 1950 as it completed the second year of its $61 million expansion program. Designed to insure plenty of dependable electric power for peace or war, the five-year building build-ing program will: (1) add 185,000 kilowatts of electric generating capacity to the company's system by late in 1952. (2) extend and improve transmission, trans-mission, distribution and service facilities at a cost of approximately approxi-mately $30,000,000. (Continued on page ten) "Some 5700 new customers were added to UP&L lines in 1950 to bring the total to 159,000" he stated, "and together they used well over one billion kilowatt kilo-watt hours of electricity. "Reflecting the high standard of living in this area, use of electrical elec-trical energy by residential and farm customers continued to increase in-crease with an average gain of 129 kilowatt hours per customer in 1950. Average consumption by UP&L home customers during the year was 2707 kilowatt hours, nearly 70 per cent greater than their average use in 1945, only live years earlier. And they bought this power at rates a-mong a-mong the lowest in the nation fully 22 per cent below what the average family in the nation pays for its electricity." Gains in rural electrification also were pointed out by Mr. Littlefield. "An early pioneer among utilities utili-ties in farm electrification, Utah Power in 1950 was nearing the finish line in its task of extending extend-ing rural distribution lines," he said. "More than keeping pace with electric utilities nationally, better than 97 per cent of the farms in our service area are either now gettfng electricity or have it available.1' j UTAH POWER & LIGHT j SPENDS MUCH TO I IMPROVE FACILITIES (Continued from p;ui" one) ! How well Utah Power & Light Co. served the people of its territory ter-ritory during the past year is I shown by the gains in number ! of customers and in power use, I Mr. Littlefield said. j , |