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Show Electric Feasibility The engineering firm of Ford, Bacon and Davis, Salt Lake City, has been retained to conduct an electrical feasibility study for the recently revitalized and reorganized Southwest Power Federation. At a meeting held Saturday in St. George Carl Palmer, president of the Federation presented a check in the amount of $5,000 to Dr. John Bailiff, chief project engineer for the Salt Lake firm to begin the study. . Nearly 20 communities of the southern Utah area have joined the Federation and provided the financial assistance to begin the study to determine the possibility of providing their own electrical power. It is anticipated that the study will be conducted simultaneously with Cedar City, which has already appropriated $47,000 to examine the potential of acquiring the existing distribution system of CP National (formerly California-Pacific Utilities Co.) The study is scheduled to be completed by October 1 and will require additional , funding in the amount of $20,000, it was estimated. At the Federation meeting 1 at Hurricane it was 1 suggested that any proposed 1 sale of the CP National to Utah Power Light, should be curtailed until the feasibility study can be completed and until residents can vote on power preferences. A letter asked for such consideration was forwarded to Joseph Ingels, Committee of Consumer Con-sumer Services, Salt Lake City, by the community mayors involved in the Federation. It was indicated by Philip Simonson, charter member of the Power Federation and Chairman of the Washington County Power Board, that cities with populations of more than 2,000 south of Provo have expressed interest in-terest in finding solutions to power problems. "We must have the fact in this study, not a rosy picture," pic-ture," Rudger McArthur, power board member, said when he estimated that power costs would increase from 400 to 700 percent over the next 20 years. Communities in Washington, Iron, Kane, Garfield and Beaver Counties and one town in northern Arizona are involved in-volved in the study, Palmer indicated. |