Show firmat POWER SCHEME OP EASTERN CAPITAL AL application for the water power jor for what is to be the largest electric producing plant in utah has becalmed bee filed with the state engineer by the grand canyon power company incorporated the company asks for two thousand feet of water per second from the green rif fiur r which will be used in running a plant ca ae of producing thirty eight thousand horsepower the fees paid fo boythe the water rights are 2000 by far the largest ever paid for any single ater r right 9 ht application in the state the plan of the company comp ny which aich it is said is composed of eastern capitalist cap is to place an imme sd am in the green river two hundred feet below its junction with Coary coal reek in irr turnery emery county this will be large enough to back th 3 wal water up in i the green river for twenty miles near the junction of coal creek with the green river a diverting channel will be constructed it will be twenty four feet wide ten feet deep and nine thousand feet long an immense power plant is to be erected which will have a horsepower licater than all other utah plants combined the water will be returned to the green river three hundred feet below the plant it is proposed to run lines across u country to reach the towns as far away as provo and to furnish power for mining purposes in the coal districts |