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Show Md Meeting On Municipal Diesel Power Plant Monday night . about 30 local power users met in the Seminary building to hear C. F. Nagle, representative rep-resentative of the Fairbanks-Morse company, explain about municipally municip-ally owned diesel electric power plants. Mr. Nagle was introduced by Mayor Black, who conducted the meeting. Mr. Nagle started his talk with a short history of diesel-operate.d plants and showed to the audience pages from a sale pamphlet showing show-ing what other communities were doing with them. He gave no estimate esti-mate as to the cost of a plant in Delta or West Millard, as he stated, stat-ed, no survey had been made here as to the power load and requirements require-ments He stated also that due to the high price of diesel oil the company was working on plans to produce engines that would operate on a' lower grade of fuel, and accordingly according-ly cheaper than at present. He said this would be done in the future. fut-ure. He related also the processes for making the various types of oils for engines of all types. At the conclusion of his talk he was asked a few questions by members of the audience and then turned the meeting back to Mayor Black. Mr. Black said that no dif-inite dif-inite action had been taken by the City Council, but they were proceeding pro-ceeding along two lines, either to own and operate a municipal power pow-er plant, or to buy power wholesale whole-sale from the Telluride Power Co. and then handle it themselves. |
