Show Large Improvement Budget Approved By Telluride Co Assuring a continuance of its war post-war expansion and service improvement program the directors di directors di- di directors rectors of Telluride Power Company ComI Company Com Com- I pany have authorized the ex expenditure expenditure ex- ex expenditure in 1952 of according to an announcement by Paul P. P Ashworth general manager This will bring the total amount spent since the end of War Val II for property additions additions ad additions ad- ad to well over lief z million dollars The major expenditures for or 1952 are for new and enlarged transmission and distribution on facilities facilities fa facilities fa- fa including sub-stations sub and associated automatic voltage voltage vol vol- vol- vol tage regulating equipment a carrier communicating system between major operating points and improvements to generating plants dams and waterways Use of electrical energy by bythe bythe bythe the company's customers has more than doubled in the past five years Mr 11 Ashworth stated so that in 1951 its residential customers used 35 per cent more than the national average and at a cost about 4 per cent lower than the corresponding national figure Renewed activity in metal mining and milling in pumping for irrigation in municipal street lighting and in farm and home applications presage continued and increased demands for el electric electric electric el- el service vice in the area served by the company In spite of the tight situation in critical materials materials ma ma- due to defense Korean War and foreign aid commitments commitments commitments commit commit- ments Mr J Ashworth concluded ed we are determined that there shall be no blackouts or brownouts insofar as electric service in this area is concern concern- ed cd |