Show NEW POWER CO TAKE possession OF LOCAL PLANT deab DEAL CLOSED rion THE op THE V 31 li COMPANY POWER FLAM pul T TO UTAH POWER A LIGHT COMPANY NEW COMPANY TAKES possession tho the utah power and light company with headquarters at salt lake city who for several weeks have been making arrangements tor for the ahe purchase hase ot of the power plant and linea lines of tho the vernal milling and light company finally completed the deal and on november let lot took possession and commenced operations under the tile new improvement improvements which will amount to considerable sums are contemplated by the new company and they plan to give vernal and ashley valley one of the beat best systems of light and power that can be had in the west immediate work will be started to bring the system up to the standard ot of the other branches of the big company J X C andorson anderson mho haa has been an emP employee lokee of the vernal company will be the new manager of tho the bower ower company the transfer involved about and was practically all owned by local people people for fourteen or more years the vernal milling and light ht company has been supplying the kopul populace a ce of vernal and ashley valley with wit h electricity tri city in the year 1907 when the company was organized and plane plans were first laid for the erection of a power plant and lighting system there twos not riot another system m of electric lighting within a hundred miles the board of direct directors elected tor for the first year were B S R bennion charles S carter W H J C bates herbert and J K bullock secretary and herbert treasurer treas subsequently thomas W odonnell became vice president herbert secretary john bennion a director and W H president mr vas was chosen manager and ordered machinery during the spring ot of 1907 tor for the flour mill which was built before the construction construe tion of at the light plant speaking ot of this mill the vernal express el of december 20 1907 says this la is the th most substantial most modern and most convenient mill I 1 ever put machinery into declared R S colllns collins of the allis chalmers company of milwaukee a 4 faw days ago when he began aho work on OU the hour flour mill which Is to be corn com plated in time to start the mill in motion by the middle or last of january the last of the eighty ton shipment of orf machinery haa arrived the same water power which ie Is to run this mill in 1 to furnish electric lights for the city and the same day that the mill la Is put in motten the lights will be bo turned on the mill had a capacity ot of barrels ot of flour per day the eighty tons tong of machinery was vas shipped over the uintah railway and brought from watson by team |