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Show TOWER LINE The Utah Light & Railway Co has a largo force of men at work near the Sanitarium, near the mouth of Ogden canyon, erecting steol towers seventy-five seventy-five feet high, upon which will be placed the wires to carry the 28.000 voltage from the power plant, a short distance helow the mouth of the canyon, can-yon, to Salt Lake City and intermediate intermed-iate points. Tho towers on the Ogden end of the line will be completed within the next few weeks. The cost of construction con-struction is heavy, but tho towers will remain in place for a half century, the engineers say, which, in the long run, will prove to bo a cheaper transmission transmis-sion system than the wooden poles. The towers are made of steel, placed upon a cement base and anchored by steel rods In such a way as to mako them proof against winds and electric storms. This line of steel tow.ers has been completed from tho company's plant In Weber canyon to the point of intersection in-tersection with the line running from Ogden to Salt Lake oyer the Sand Ridge, but the -work of erecting the towors over the route through Davis county Is not finished, because of the delay In construction work In double tracking the Oregon Short Lino road between Ogden and Salt Lake This tower lino approaches the pipe lino of tho company, leading from Ogden Og-den canyon, -about three-quarters of a mile cast of the power bouse on Ogden river and follows the aqueduct to the plant. This has been done to avoid heavy expenditures in the mat-tor mat-tor of right-of-way. The entire line of towers will be in placo early In the fall of tho year |