Show moon lake electric incy inc energizes enera 0 zes power line to gorge dam volts by the carload are now available at dutch john the construction ruction town fo for flaming gorge dam as moon lake electric turned the power into the una lina from vernal to flaming gorge prea area early this week 4 A temporary substation has been built at the planting gorge site at a cost of and it will be moved to another location when the dam Is s finished the dam line is presently operating at volts to supply power to contractors when the dam is completed it will hlll bring power from the area tit at volts A sub will be built at the ver vernal nal twitch switch station to handle this high violeti voltage age at un in estimated cost of a quarter million dollars an attendants building and sho shop p la Is being completed at the switch station at a cost of from this station POW or lines extend to flam 4 ing gorge ned hed wash bonanza langely rangely nan Ran gely leota loka talmadge and interconnects with the yellowstone hydro plant dlly eder resident engineer in charge representing C 11 II guernsey co ha lias supervised tile the construction of the transmission line to the dana daia tile the new building steel switch towers and tile the line to red lied wash to string siring the 41 miles of I 1 d inch cables used for trans mission lines to tile the dam damsite site it was necessary to pull the cable 2 miles at a time through gli a series of pulleys ab 10 inches in dia diameter metr attached to tile the poles pole tills this casdone was done without the lie cable touching the ground I 1 tie lie continued on page 8 11 moon moo I 1 lake ak continued from page 1 11 cable Is made up of 0 4 A cose of seven steel strands 10 or r strength and 20 aluminum strands for conductors the contract for ill the line was let july 10 and it was completed jan 22 the line to the dam was energized at the substation tuesday it Is 40 70 miles long and lias has a safety factor of 0 to 1 at tile the switch tower oil circuit breakers have been installed with four units to each circuit these circuit breakers are capable of interrupting tile the high currents it the line should be struck by lightning or other oilier emergent emerge nj i cles without resulting dam age to tile the system |