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Show ond line will be built from Magna Mag-na to cobalt refineries in the west end of the valley and thence to two television relay towers to be built by Salt Lake TV stations on peaks of the Oquirrh mountains. Line also will provide better voltage into Tooele valley. In Salt Lake City, a far-reaching streeUighting program will be continued, stated the division manager. The state's largest mercury-vapor system stretching on 13th East from South Temple street to Highland Drive will be completed this summer. (First section of this project was turned turn-ed on in ceremonies held last week. "Electric power is the life- blood of industry", pointed out Mr. Littlefield. r'Each day an American worker at his job use9 enough electric power to equar 210 other men working at the " same task. In other words, a force of 210 'slave laborers at the command of each worker. By this expansion of its facilities, facili-ties, Utah Power St Light Co. is working to keep this section of the nation strong electrically as America continues its all-out production for freedom." o division, said Mr. Lfttlefield, include in-clude construction of two important im-portant transmission lines and intensive distribution work. A new 8-mile 44,000 volt line will go up between Gadsby plant and southeast substation in Salt Lake. This will strengthen the power supply to the city's mushrooming mush-rooming southeast area. The sec- UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY PLANS MANY IMPROVEMENTS IN 1952 Salt Lake City Utah Power & Light Co. this week announced announc-ed plans to spend some $1 1,780,-000 1,780,-000 during 1952 for construction and improvement of its electrical facilities in the Salt Lake-Park City-Tooele areas. The projected construction, declared J. C. Littlefield, company's com-pany's Salt Lake division manager, man-ager, is part of the overall $70 million, five-year expansion program pro-gram being conducted by UP&L. Purpose- of the program, he said, is to keep the area it serves a-head a-head of its electric needs. It will be financed principally by sale of stock and by borrowings. The fourth and largest year of the! expansion program, 1952, will see a record $17 million put into scores of electric projects ranging rang-ing from power plants to new distribution lines serving home and industry. Largest single item in this year's budget is the Gadsby steam-electric plant in Salt Lake City where a 75,000 kilowatt, generating unit is scheduled to go into operation this fall. It will tollow Gadsby's initial 66,000 kilowatt generator which was put in service last September. Total cost of the giant power, plant is set at $23 Vi million. Upon completion, it will be capable of serving all the electric needs of i 200,000 people. Other major projects in the |