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Show PLAN ANOTHER POWER PLANT IN THEJJANYON Big Company Files on Water In Blacksmith Fork to Develop Electricity , Salt Lnko City, May 18. Tho Utah Power & Light Company, through Its attorney, Frederick Stlegmoyer ot Story & Stolgmoyer, filed in HG Second Sec-ond feet of water In tho Blacksmith Fork canyon nnd will nt somo future tlmo build a now power plant In tbo canyon. Tho water width has been filed upon by Mr. Stelgmeyer will genernto 3700 horsepower which, nc-cording nc-cording to tho application on flits with tho stato engineer, will bo used for tho purpoBo of propelling machinery for tho development of electrical power. It was nnnounced last night that no dovolopmont work wouli bo deno In Blacksmith Fork 'for somo I tlmo nnd nono It tho olllclals of tho I company would venture nn opinion as to when thero would bo n plant erected to tako caro of tbo 115 second sec-ond feet of wnter. Tho operating department of tho Utah Power & Light did not hnow of tho filing having been mado, but It. A. Wilbur, general counsel for tbo company stnted that the filing was mado by tbo legal department nnd that ho did not know tho details as Mr. Stolgmoyer had been handling handl-ing tbo matter for tbo company . The Utah Power a Light has nt this tlmo a largo power plant at tho mouth of Blacksmith Fork, It was tho property ot tho Blacksmith Fork Light & Power company beforo It was purchased by tho Electric Bond 4: Sharo interests. Mr. Wilbur stnted stnt-ed that tho filing had been"' mado on tho water In the canyon abovo tho intake of tho power plant nnd not at any point below the spillway gates. |