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Show I City Announces All Contracts Let For Installation of Power System . power Lines To Run In Middle of Blocks Instead of On Streets p With the letting of the contract J for the distribution system to the Strand Electric company, city of- "1 ficials announce that all contracts !V for the city power and distribu- Jf tion system have been awarded. Ground has been broken by Woodbury Wood-bury and Cottam and work start- - ed on the buildings to house the various equipment. 1 n d the The contract awarded the : empha. Strand Electric company calls for lout th a completely new distribution and U f ,e street lighting system. Under the J( plan adopted by the city, all poles 15 will be taken out of the middle of the streets and the new lines erspersed wji run through the middle of nd much block. The cooperation of the supplied citizens of St. George is asked 'ly bulle- jn the erecting of the new system, ns. What Work is slated to start on this conduct at once, state city officials. The reaching ft oa(j 0f poles is expected to io longer arrjve not later than July 10, and of work- the first load of pipe is to be ucational delivered at the sight of the hydro anti plant this week. ' Other companies to receive con- ital fi tracts from the cit include R-Y R-Y , Hardesty Manufacturing company, tJJg ,or pipe contract, and Worthing nd a 7 Pump an Macninerv Corp., diesel received and generatinS equipment. Approval has been received for ach dk tlle P'ans or ttle 'ty sw'mming pool, which is to be used in con- nection with the diesel plant as a cooling unit. In connection with placing the poles for the distribution system in the middle of the block instead of the street, Roy H. Cox, city atlorney, announces that the city is asking that the telephone com- 60 pany remove their poles from the 5' streets and likewise place them 87 in the middle of the block. |