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Show POWER COMPANY : ANNOUNCES PLAN FORJEW LINE Utah P ower ft Light Company directors have authorized expenditure expendi-ture of $1,800,000 for construction construc-tion of a high voltage electric line to carry additional power into the heart of the Telluride Power Company Com-pany area. E. M. Naughton, UP&L and Telluride Power Company president, presi-dent, said he expects the line to become the first leg of a transmission transmis-sion system to bring Glen Canyon power to the people of Utah. Mr. Naughton said construction of the 67-mile extra high voltage line will begin about September I. 1959 and the line will be ready for use bv Mav. I960. It will extend from the end of the UP&L system near Nephi to a point just north of Richfield. Mr. Naughton also announced an-nounced that the Telluride company, com-pany, a UP&L subsidiary will rpend an additional $680,000 ort a substation at Sigurd to reduce voltage for local use. The line will be constructed to operate at 230,000 volts, Mr. Naughton declared, but until Glen. Canyon power becomes available it will be operated at 138,000 volts. Mr. Naughton said the new line initially will strengthen the power-supply power-supply to the Telluride area and later will be available as the first lef of a transmission system to bring Utah's share of Glen Canyon power into the state as that power becomes available. Completion of the line, he addled, addl-ed, will make ample power available avail-able to serve the increasing needs of the south-central portion of the-state, the-state, including those of the California Cali-fornia Pacific Power Co., formerly the Southern Utah Power Co. |