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Show UTAH POWER AND LIGHT TO OPERATE IN COUNTY The Board of County Commissioners of Emery county met in extra session l.iit Monday. July 26th, to consider the juplic .tion for franchise by the Utah Poiver and Light company, the Hon. Ira R. Browning appearing before the board in behalf of the grantees above named. After due consideration the board granted to the Utah Power and Light company a franchise for a period until July 26, 1965. This franchise allows the company to operate in the unincorporated unincor-porated towns of the county. Franchises Fran-chises have already been acquired from the towns of Huntington, Castledah, a-d Orangeville, and Mr. Browning is now negotiating with the towns of Ferron Fer-ron and Emery. As was stated in last week's paper the company will take over the Orangeville Electric Power & Milling company and the same will be merged into the big company. The central station of the company will be located at Black Hawk, j in Carbon and Emery counties, as the ' poumh.ry line of the two counties run directly through the camp. Light, heat, and power will be given to every town in this county and a most excelled service is guaranteed, as this I company is doing business on a large j scale in the inter-mountain country. E:r,ery county is to be congratulated on ' '.he entrance into it of such a concern. Four carloads of equipment had beer. received by the company at Salt Lake City for another project, which was !; ready at present to use the same, n i after tne company's inspection of , tne Emery county proposition, they de- ! Ci.cd 10 use the material here if the :ra:.chise could be obtained. And as ! t.ie company was at great expense in h 'i ;in ttie shipment they lushed the; !fii tier of gaining the franchise, thence I tie special session of the board of coun ty commissioners, and the extra effort j ad by Mr. Browning. It is the company 's intention to have j the installation of the system started Dy the 1st of September. j It is proposed to have dav and night service throughout the whole year and : the power supply equal to the demands of the whole county for all purposes, j All members of the county board of j commissioners were present at the j neeting and were full heart and soul in ! tie step to be undertaken by this com-j pa .y fur the development of Emery county. Mr Browning is working ardently in behalf of the company and is meeting with success in every case arid the Progress joins with the people i Emery county in the success of the new merger. This, undoubtedly, is the forerunner of other new and big enterprise enter-prise soon to be developed in the most excellent "Kingdom of Emery." |
