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Show THE DAILY HERALD FIFTH SECTION FIFTH SECTION THE HERALD NOW GOES TO ALL FORMER SUB SCRIBERS TO TIIEPROVO POST THE PROVO HERALD STEEL DAY EDITION. Utah Power & Light Co. Keeps Pace With State's Growfth division of the Utah Light company comprUei .power of Utah from the Jordan part A,t rrows on the north, ts i coal niin-tColum-k-u camp of Sunnyslde and on the east, Huntington on the loath and the Tintle mining district avii-Bitel- y ao the west, an n four thousand square miles. Service is supplied In thirty comTbe Provo 1 OFFICIALS AND E HPLOYES OF PROVO DIVISION, UTAH POWER & UGHT at iwhuu tw unities to over enut tomers. Th territory serTed readly dt .ifo itself Into four districts, viz. : African Fork. Provo, Carbon; county and Eureka. The American fork and Provo districts are located to Utah county. Their early electrl-c- tl history is very similar to that of guy communities turougnoui me Mtmtrr wherein small. Inadequately financed companies enaeavorea to nter the neia dui soon louna it Mcessary to combine with a larger atmoany in order to keep operating. Ihe Utah County Light and Power II company was organuea in itsw. it tfved the towns of American Fork, Leal and Pleasant Grove from a 250 K. W. water power development In In 1805 a American Fork canyon. 100 K. W. steam plant was built In ! . J .. n- - I TsssasM&z&n American Fork to take care of the In 1906 a secIncreased demand. ond 12U0 K. W. plant was built in American Fork canyon and In 1910 1 1700 K. W. water power plant at Alpine. This company extended their lines to the Tintle mining disM'pripw")'v,"B : trict and the southern part of Salt Lake county. Financial difficulties this plant and Mercur, a gold min- to supply service to the mines and overtook them, however, and in 1912 ing camp now abandoned. In due communities. The growth of this this property was sold to the Knight time lines were extended to Bing Consolidated Power company. Duri- ham and Eureka. This expansion territory has been such as to make ng the latter part of 1912 this com- made it possible to furnish whole- the construction of a second line bepany was taken over by the Utah sale energy to the towns mentioned. tween these two points necessary in Power tc Light company. Local lighting companies were or- 1923, as well as additional substaProvo's First Service. ganized to handle retail service. tion facilities at Helper. All priProvo city received its first elect- "The Electric company" operated in vate steam plants in this territory, rical service in 1890 .from the Provo Woolen Mills. This system was transfered to "The Electric In 1899, which company was absorbed by the Utah Power company in 1912 and finally sold to the Utah Power & Light company In com-pan- ;" February, 1913. The Telluride Provo, "Camp Floyd Electric company" In Mercur and "The Eureka Electric company" in Eureka, Sliver City and Mammoth. All these companies were consolidated with the Utah Power and Light company in 1912. Electrical Coal Mining. It is estimated by the U. S. geological survey that there is as much coal In Carbon county as there is in the state of Pennsylvania. After exhaustive analysis of the load possibilities in that field the Utah Power & Light company built a 40,000 volt line from Springvllle to Helper In 1916. A tubstation was built at Helper and various distribetween bution lines radiated from this point Power company organized In Colorado In. 1900, but bad actually started operations ten years previously, After considerable experimentation its organizers decided that "long distance high voltage transmission" was possible. They entered the Utah field in 1899 by constructing Nunn'a station in Provo canyon. The first 40 K. W. line In the world was constructed was and operated successfully Independent Products Can Be Purchased FromThe Following Concerns: except one, have been closed down. This is a wonderful example of the efficiency of central service station, when power can be transmitted over a hundred miles and sold to coal mines with greater economy and efficiency than they can generate it themselves. The above brief historical sketch of th. development of the Provo division furnishes the foundation upon which the present system was built, with the result that lines now radiate in every direction furnishing power and lighting service to farms, irrigation companies, an railway, coal mines, metal mines, incorporated an unincorporated communities. As stated above, the principal in inter- -urban . I : c ? --- j p m t4 r-f- h: J' j - ') cry Tht.v. "-:- W year. tomoblle. This road reaches an altitude of over nine thousand feet and passes the beginning of the trail leading to Tlmpanogos cave, a marvelous work of nature. Strawberry lake is fifty miles from the fish throughout the intermountnin coun- city and offers the best trout try. Tlmpanogos mountain, famed ing grounds in the country. Kuiubow for its beauty, lies north of Provo. and native trout weighing seven and A rond completely around it makes eight pounds are common. The above brief outline of the de possible mountain climbing by au-- t Natural Attractions. On account of the Brlgham Young university being located in Provo, that city is considered the center of Mormon culture. This school attracts students from many states and its good work is being felt velopment of the power system in this division, the diversity of load, the possibilities of future growth, the many natural attractions, the natural wealth all would seem to fortell a wonderful future growth. Everything to make life worth living seems to have been placed by nature within easy reach and she has also enriched the earth hereabouts the result that man need only to come and enjoy the things that are his. Electric light and power service is so essential to the everyday life of the communities wherein located that some must needs be constantly on duty. The stoppage of power nowadays may bring untold hardships to the housewife, who may with abundant natural wealth, with have a favorite cake in the electric edepeodleifiift Ga &Oi Co, A Utah Corporation Steel City Service Station, Steel City. You're The Judge We've Said A Lot About limp Garage, Provo Bench. Product Bench. Cullimore Merc. Co, Linden. Thornton Drug Co, Pleasant Grove. Grove. American - ';:M'Fork Co-o- p, - American Fork; Chipman Merc. Co, American Fork. Kinley Taylor, American Fork. Varney Service Station, American Fork. A. Marsh & Sons, Alpine. n ser-vic- American Fork Brigham City Cedar City Coalville Delta Ephraim Eureka Fillmore Gunnison HeberCity Helper Kaysville Marysvale - Mt. Pleasant Midvale Milford . Nephi Ogden Park City Payson Price Information Service Station, Provo Arrowhead Service Station, Pleasant shut-dow- Lehi Logan Lund Pine Tree Service Station, Provo. Skinner Bros., Provo Bench. oven, to the large mine or mill where a of only a few minutes means the loss of many dollars. After all is said and done, the men and women, no matter how humble their position, who have done their best in keeping the e efficient have helped their To help your fellowmen is the greatest thing in life. UTAH "The People Who Brought Good Gas To Town" Provo Bench. SS) 'a,'"' fV C dustry in the Carbon county district ' ' l" t a U V .i is coal mining. district i . . a ' r f . i "v ' i j has two mines among the largest producers of lead and silver in the United States. The Provo district has many large fruit orchards, proEmployes of the Provo office Back low, left to right: J. B. Hughes, Clyde Clark, D. S. Tucker, J. A. Bullock. Irvin duces many tons of sugar beets ; and the establishment of the Columbia Slack, George Vincent, B. K. Bul'ock, D. O. Allen, H. E. Holland, Orson Slack, S. D. Packard, E. D. Bean. Steel company's blast furnace plant Middle row, left to right: S.rah Rowe, Isabella McBride, Margaret Leahy, Grace Paxman, R. Timmerman, division-manager- ; will undoubtedly mean the starting Barbara Paxman, Inger Johnson, Carol Pyne, Mary Hansen. of many industries wherein iron is Front row left to right : J. W. Clark Charles Johnson, Don Parks, Fred Richins, Byron Clark, Henderson used. The American Fork district Young, Don is entirely agricultural This terri- Bean, Francis Cummings i, Wra. Haws, John Curtis. Not in group: Lamar Evans, C. E. Larsen, A. C. Schweitzer. in the strides made has great tory Dixon, A. E. 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