Show I i PLANS OF IMPROVEMENT Oakland Electrical Engineer Conferring With Street Railway Officials I i. i TO BUY SHOSHONE POWER I C he HI ts on Sunk Snake e b Ir Jf- Jf thc Will Add 1111 to Available An Power lO t of or Local Plants Plants I. I I A A. A II IL Babcock electrical en engIneer f for or the Southern Pacific w with th headQuarters hood head Quarters In ht pal Oakland land Is in Salt I Lake ac v l' l with the officials of the iho Utah Light Railway Hallwa company CO roV ruS' ruS ro- ro V J S' S the proposed 1 improvements 1 Ii fi the line Mr Babcock t l Jg is j the most V 1 prominent electrical engineer in the l employ of or the thc s system stem and It It- was he who made malic tho the i 1 inspection of ot k I the r local street railway step s n Jast ast astr summer ummer for Cor E U. U II 11 when Its purchase was first contemplated With r J W. W II Bancroft and antI other 9 officials Mr rr Ir Babcock will make a il t thorough h a canvass of the local situation I t and definite plans for or Improving the theN N s system will be formulated In the next ff r few days duys The statement ha has been made by representatives s on 01 several cral occasions that Improvements to o othe rf the amount of or sc several millions o of dollars dollars dol dol- ul- ul lars Jars will be made macJe in the near future and that a lar large e part pait of oC this expend expendi expenditure iUn i- i tune ture will be hc for foi or equipment of or the thc most t r modern typos types Further than this no MO definite announcements have e been r made I F i It Is ah also o known n that thal when K E. II H. Harriman assumed the control of the f Utah Light Railway company he w either bou bought ht or provided m for fol the sale of or about o of the ment and betterment bonds of ot the thc 4 if cone company compan any which have ha been In the r. r treasury treasur waiting wafting for or purchasers since the thc time of or the last partial reorganisation lion tion of ot tho rho company L. L A new development de p Went in the street railroad situation is the closing of the deal between the interests and the Shoshone Power company which has extensive c water rights along the Shoshone and Snake rivers In InS S Idaho Announcement that this deal was was In progress was made several oral weeks a ago o and antI now It has been 1 practically trac- trac closed close Officers of ot the p power company will arrive e In Salt Lake Lale in an a afew afew few days to complete the formal trans trains transfer fer ter of the property A high tension transmission ti line I Is 11 in cOUl course e of construction construction con con- on- on from Shoshone Falls t to Silt Salt Lake e. e and the street railroad company will have ha an additional supply of pow pow- cr er from rout rom this source within a a. few tew I months |