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Show I WOODBURY 8 MUCH NEEDED ;( IMPROVEMENTS T. W.HHllMny. J r. j ., not-as many lm -of tlx1'" ,v: j x7cm: ft tivn :",.',.iiiu:ion ana not .;";o;j by sKS 0,'i .'.'. s sower system that jjs-We to keep the j :K."f- sivii streets and ( j'tetter fuel supply:; y:. to supply itself-' itself-' al energy and ' i ee , fcn&g to people motive is money; a ;.rs;K3tion center. We T-t .-tfier needs of course; ;7:.v.u large in our im-; T.'S'.'ective. I r can ?'ew beyond its !ll;!v," is current and ( aphoristic anions r,;rr one accepts it as ii jad irrefrsgible. We - water, pure and un- ii??fns that in getting -;:;:y-:o-be desired thing. '.-xi pure water supply. :- israire one other of rS. goods, a supply of i Krrgy ample and ade-:t ade-:t our needs. - j:e books filled with atsmpting to show :i::jal power plants are fcraoniically conducted -Ti::;ra".ively maintained. :: ::e data and statistics -j support the con-: con-: and trustworthy, of it is wrested from -.; ipor. and made to do ;iervice of the finan-ia finan-ia if the vested interests, "-s ire wonderful instru-- instru-- :s used to tell the . i-i dj good but when :) do duty to sinister ippreseioa they are - of infernal aspect and "tit; laa who named the ' Sires of the lie as: lies : -ee. and statistics." ; o'-er hand there are f'tten to prove that mun-- mun-- ;-:i;r plants are very lu-: lu-: :; tie owners and so re-j1 re-j1 ttt such cities are -: on the revenue accru- yunci piauus ana ;i nave, no general tax " ??ort them. "Tax tiey Mil themselves. 1 some such, but they' Even some of the stistic5 bolstering up1 Ktiin are carelessly ap-' made to prove what If not prove it proper-' 1 think, however,1 reason for distrusts' ;wo speak directly in' wonomic interest as! ,';;"-;'V owned companies' 7 distrusting munici-! . ave nothing to gain ; rirtloa of the facts 13 prehensibie that ;f 01 are not careful of 0r f what they sav wwda seems to be ,';tt of carelessly work-:vj.;cs work-:vj.;cs cool calculat-. calculat-. purpose to deceive 5 faTr and gain. : 5 another reason for i'versity of opinion 1m of munlci- h !DtS- -There are ''mat?. . he upshot an.maUef is that some i conditions make icipal Paying P0wer tioas L other and " ften i. .v . The on-emil on-emil at" we have y Power ni V can have Miuti 'r Plant and if we ;:-nopeC mination then let Us t0 cceed. : St n 8ee what the 4met ha.1 facil'tate ;.K2nts. p' of electrical : kind 0, f : 6t- George V01 W that 18 tric "h Powers the ;? fl I, as ater Power. fnder y condltiona. .have Jy skles ; Con n three f the ?inwood Sprtae b; "1 even Hix. at llle spring was ever less than two cubic feet per second. Now we have one and one-half cubic feet per second running in our concrete pipe from the reservoir at the Black Knolls to our city. It is very conservative to say that we lose one half of a second foot between the spring and our pipe. Hence though we have no ac-curate ac-curate measurements of the spring as it comes out of the mountainside, there still must be more than two seoond feet at the source. During the summer sum-mer by actual measurement we i lose a much greater percentage ! than the twenty-five contended for between the intake of the ditch ! in Cottonwood canyon and the Black Knolls, from forty to fifty ' per cent. i With two second feet of wa-j wa-j ter available always barring a drouth of unprecedented occurence, occur-ence, we could produce three ! hundred thirty K. W. at our ! lowest ebb. St. George usually ' consumes about two hundred ' twenty-five K. W. So we could 1 have an abundance of power for jthe needs of our city at the times of the greatest known 1 scarcity of water. A margin of ! one hundred five K. W. or nearly j half the usual consumption. The reason this small quantity ; of water will work such wonders ' is because of the great "head" our watercourse contains. From the Cottonwood Spring to our head house above town there is a fall of three thousand nine hundred feet. If w3 could afford af-ford pressure pipe to conserve all this head there is no doubt that our usual water flow would develop from a thousand to fifteen fif-teen hundred K. W. but it is entirely impractical on account of the excessive cost of high pressure pipe. However, there are two power sites along the water route that are susceptable to use and not exhorbitout of cost that will give us three hundred hun-dred thirty kilowats. So it Is feasible for St. George to develop water power enough to more than supply her needs. The two sites have "heads" respectively re-spectively of one thousand and thirteen hundred feet. Further discussion must be ' deferred to a later date. |