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Show TRE POWER PLANT. Next Summer "Utah County Will bo Supplied Sup-plied With Light and Power I"iom Provo Kiver. The following from this morniDg's Tribune is interesting readihg tor Utah county people. T, A. Davis has returned from a trip to Provo canyon, where he has besn inaugrating work on the echeme outlined by himself some mouths ago to put up an electrical power plant ot 20G0 horse-power capacity, using the waters of Piovo river to generate the power. With Mr. Davis in this enterprise enter-prise is associated Mr. L. L. Nunn of Telluiide Colo. The plans of the promoters for the present are to put in a20C0-horse-power generating plant, but all the preliminary prelimin-ary work will be constructed so that the entire riyer can be duuvn on for power, and it is estimated that the river will render a capacity of at least 10,000-horee-powei. . . , , 'ihe ongmeering work, wmch has be n under way since la?t June , is nov con pleted, and Mr. Davis is just pbout to let contracts ior tho construction of the dam and the ditch which' will be a mile and a'hall long fiorn tho dam to the power station. It ia notauticipatid that much progress will be made with the actual construction this season, but work will be pushed wherever practicable, practi-cable, and it lfa the expectation that before be-fore next summer is lar advanced, the town of Provo and the surrounding villages will be euppliod with light and power geneiated by the water-powei water-powei m Provo river. The silo of the power station is about six mths up the canyon fiom the mouth and about nine miles from Provo city. |