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Show Electric Power Users Of County Seek Adequate Service Assurance Agricultural and Industrial users of electric power organized a temporary tem-porary committee last week to attempt at-tempt to solve the problem of adequate ade-quate power for crop production and industrial development in southern Utah. County Commissioner H. L. Adams of Farowan, was named chairman of the committee. (wlth other members mem-bers as follows: H. O. Moyle, Beryl, president of the Escalante Valley Electric Association; G. R. Parry, Cedar City, president of the Cedar Valley pumpers Association; O. D. McDonald, superintendent, Columbia Colum-bia Iron Mining company, and J. M. Palmer, farmer and county agricultural agricul-tural adjustment administrator com- mlttceman. The meeting at which the committee com-mittee was appointed was sponsored by the Escalante Valley Electric As-1 soclation, a cooperative serving farmers and other users ln the Beryl farming area. The meeting was called for the purpose of finding find-ing ways and means of securing enough additional power to carry through the 1948 season, and for the development of power for future n cds. Difficulties encountered the past two years because of the lack of adequate power service were outlined out-lined by pump well users of the county, and by C. J. Wasmuth of the Utah Construction company, O. D. McDonald or the Columbia iron Mining company, If. Duncan and H. S. Kunz, Excelsior Manufacturing Manufactur-ing Company, and Newell F. Was-den Was-den of the Utah Poultry Producers Ass'n. Representatives of the pum; well farmers explained that a very serious condition ln yield of crops as well as ruinous abandonment of crop acres has resulted ln the past two years due to lack of dependable, dependa-ble, power service. Mr. Moyle outlined developments proposed by Southern Utah Power company and by St. George as a means of furnishing additional power, pow-er, but expressed some doubt as to the adequacy of the supply to take care of Iron county's needs for 1948 since the demand for power Is Increasing In-creasing so rapidly ln agriculture and industry, as well as by home owners and businesses. The group also went on record as willing to sponsor an engineering engineer-ing survey relative to the construction construc-tion of a large steam generating plant and a distribution system that would take care of power needs for the area ln the future and seek adequate and efficient power supply to meet all the electrical needs for homes, business, Industry, and agriculture ag-riculture for Iron and Washington counties. |