Show ELECTRICAL POWER DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION I i Cutler Plant of Utah Power and Light Company s Stream Control and Conservation at Its Best Visit Reveals Magnitude of Inv Investment NecEssary to an Adequate antI and D Dependable Power Service I i itt itt- S tZ f 2 24 5 t 4 Yr t- t tv y yi i A 1 ra 3 rr ll R e ee e t n rf 4 I I n r I f h 1 tt l t S r rf f j N nt c r ti v S I yi n ny 4 t 0 ea f t tBt a t F 1 ev i r i w wI I sY t e w tY e i iw iy y a a 4 e y Si i Ce a an at n t General IT-General General view of the Cutler powersite before operations were begun G 2 General 2 view of dam pipeline and power house taken recently 3 This 3 This foot 18 is 1320 feet long built of rivet riveted d steel plates plates The 4 4 The powersite as it appeared about one one month ago The 5 arch arch- type arch ype concrete te dam as it appeared on September 1 6 The 6 The dividing into two shaped V-shaped branches and the penstocks at the plant plan 7 Ole of the huge stators I being wound for one of the kilowatt generators Construction 8 work progressing in the powerhouse a t I Water conservation with the useful employment thereof is strikingly gY 1 exemplified by tl the e new hydro electric generating station under construction by tho the Utah Power and Light c company on the th lower Bear river I Another Impressive tact fact act Is that the cre creation ot of a plant Ilant of o this sort requires the highest type ot of engi- engi engineering and and construction together with the Investment or of o a vast amount ot of though money money though when the plant Is completed and ami In op op- op operation this will wilt not be apparent t to the passerby nor even to those thos i Who may vl visit lt and inspect the tho dam damand damand and buildings In allot all o these as the pictures i page page on this partly reveal great grea t capital capital Investments havo have bee been made largely made largely by hy residents of ot the territory served by the company compan through the tha purchase ot of o Its Ides Illes This money is remaining at home in tho the shape or of o the Cutler development as this plant Is known In the purchase ot of mate mate- materials rials entering Into its construction In local labor that is employed ed during dur- dur durIng during Ing the tho building period In locally y purchased materials Including locally lo- lo locally locally cally raised foodstuffs In the div div- divIdends divIdends paid to the local ers ot of the thu com company pan and further further- furthermore furthermore furthermore more in creating new taxable property Utilizing Waste Vaste Cater ater The Cutler plant Is situated On o the lower Bear river just lust above the company's compans Wheelon Wheelan plant plan in the narrows ot of the Bear river Canyon anyon The expansive Cache valley alley every ever spring has a large run off flood floodwaters waters that find their way into river o This water every yea year r does no valuable service to the th e re farm lands but Lut on tho the other hand han cuts stream banks banke and waste washes I down much of ot the humus that 1 ts Ithe s the chief productive value In the th e soil ot of the tho county For years tot Ihl this s water nater has haa done dono more harm than n good It Is this water waler which will fill fit l the reservoir at the Culler Cutler plan t and not only be use used l in the gen gen- gen ot of energy at nt the plant bu hut 11 t will be under absolute control centre 1 throughout tho the year ear and be bo avail avail- available available available able for the farm lands below the th e plant during seasons when hen other otherwise wise there would bo complete In dry years Th The reser- reser reservoir voir vall at the Cutler Culler plant while while sizeable Is not actually a storage i reservoir but rather a regulating reservoir The dam and the can can- canyon canyon yon on walls walla wall will hem it in fa and aud the th lake formed will extend a considerable consid- consid considerable erable distance Into the back country coun coun- country country try The rhe dam will l provide a gross head ot feet with pith an effective head of feet At high water mater the area crea ot of the tho reservoir wilt will be acres A foot five draw draw- down will provide a a n capacity of acre feet With the plant operating at full capacity the tho I storage water alone will wm furnish i kilowatts or horse horse- horsepower horsepower horsepower power for a II period of ot 60 hours or ort o t two 0 and one halt days daS da s Facts About About the Plant Actual construction wor work at the thi Cutler began In n Juno June of last year At first about men were employed but soon this force grew to and this number Is 13 still at work An army of ot car car- carpenters carpenters car penters alone was required to con con- construct the almost countless forms for for tor the concrete work worl About 90 per ler cent ot of the labor employed came from the near vicinity ot of operations The monthly payroll II has averaged around I In food supplies alone by the tho time tim willI the work is completed ted there thero will wll I I I havo have been consumed about 75 worth ot of locally grown prod prod- product products prod About lt 30 teams from front the vicinity vi- vi vicinity of the plant haw halo been at work from the start Among the building lUat materials produced local local- locally ly there have havo been used over ovel carloads ot of o cement 2000 cars of sand and gravel pounds ot of reinforcing steel bricks and many minor items Over cars s of ot lumber have ha been furnished Ih through rough local institutions In the con construction of the dam pipeline and plant there have ha been cubic yards of ot earth an and J roc rock I moved The dam la Is s of or the arch type built of or concrete and l Is 14 feet high It Is BO 60 feet leer thick at the bottom and seven se feet thick at the th e lop top Its lis length from wall to wall pal wa II 0 of the canyon is feet teet An Impressive part ot or the de- de de is s the steel pipeline This Is 1320 feet teet In length leading the tho water from the dam dom to the th e penstocks at the tho generating sta- sta eta station lion tion It t Is 1 18 feet in diameter and would easily permit the pas pas- passage pas sage of a locomotive and Pullman I coaches through It It As the approaches the station it divide e Into two branches making malting a 1 Y T Each Cach arm ot of o the tho Y T feeds into the penstocks from which the water passes through regulating gates to the waterwheels The Tho waterwheels have a capacity ot of o horse horse- power each cach and will drive two 15 or horsepower generators each The current gen crated will bo ho volts passing to the outside transformers in the switchyard where it will wll bo be stepped stepped step- step ped up to volts tor for trAns trAns- trAnsmission transmission mission on a new mlle SO transmission slon sion line on wooden towers towels to the th company's terminal substation w nest st of Salt Lake City from where It will wll be dispatched to points ot or use The plant Is now about 80 per cent complete and will probably Le be completed by the tho end of of ot November Novem- Novem November ber About two weeks will wll bo reo re for test ru runs ns and then the power will be available fo for the company's system The plant is 18 being ing built by tho the Phoenix company under the Immediate su- su supervision su of ot Construction Superintendent L B Puller Ill The D Bear ar River l The Cutler Culler plant of ot the Utah Power and Light company Is th the newest unit of ot Its famous scar river system known throughout the world by engineers as an ex- ex example ex ample of ot perfection in conserva conserva- conservation conservation tion lion and ond stream control There isa Is Isa I a fall ot of 1720 feet from Bear Dear lak lake to Great Salt Lake and feet teet of this fall faU or head is now utilized Proposed complete completo development will use feet or OS 68 per cen cent centor or of 01 the tho total a remarkable showing In to comparison with other with streams other of ot the countr country Bear lake with Its remarkable re storage ot of waste water Is the tho foun dation dallon ot of the Bear river system of 01 the Utah Power and Light LIht com pany Before Defore the oi of ot this company In 1912 1312 1912 man many scattered and small email electric Ugh light and ane an power plants were serving communities near each plant In i each euch case these plants were do- do doIng ing their utmost to to- to meet the tiro de- de de manila nianda or of o power consumers but lacked the facilities to keep ot of the limes times and to plan and con con- con for tor the future In high high- highwater water periods there would he be water power to generate far more current than could ho he used In the dry 8 seasons Jasons there thre cou could Id not bo be a sufficiency sUI supplied In all aU ther there were about 70 such small plants in operation with Wll one or two ot of considerable size and mid Importance Sow Now there hero are In the tho company's company system about 45 modern n plants On the tho tho Bear river alone there are aro a ro lisa file plants in operation and tho the sixth one ono Is being built at al Cutler Culler Before Defore the creation of ot the Bear river system Bear Dear river rising inthe In 1 the low hills southeast or of o Evanston meandered north to 10 near Soda Sod Springs and then turned west and an south and emptied Into the tho Great Suit Salt Lake In the spring it t was waIts s Its habit to 10 go on a rampage and an Inundate farm Imd lands undercut its it banks hanks and ancl do much d with Its superabundance of or water In Inthe the late summer and fall when crops were thirsty Its bed would I be nearly dry Tho river oddly enough en ugh did not nol feed Into Bear lake but circled It It laming Turbulent Salers The Utah Power rower and ana Light com com- pany undertook to to- to and an I organize organise the vast ast power resources resource of or Bear Dear lako lake and Bear Dear river un un- un until until til then largely wasted Virtually It dug a 11 new river called river called tho In In- In Inlet Inlet let canal It Its purpose was to Ii I vert- vert the vert-the tho water waler-ot water ot Bear Dear river from river from II Its course and empty it in Mud Mu lake 1 separated from Dear lake by bya b ba y a natural dike at the north end en lot of Bear lake Then works work were constructed to put this water Into rear near lake and hold It in storage against need for its use us use use- Also another an- an another other was dug by the com coin com com- company pany the outlet canal to put ut wa- wa water toy ter back into Bear Dear river In useful I quantities quantities From From- rom highwater high water lev level In Bear lake the tho first five feet now flow by It gra gravity under control bac back Into Int hear Bear river rl To 10 draw off oft more than tha five feet of at this stored water requires re- re re quires pumping At Litton on the Bear lake dike diki is a II pumping P plant of ot magnificent capacity It has lias five hors horse power motors and five pumps each capable of ot lifting cubic feet tc of water per per second second from the lake lak or a n pumping capacity of ot 1500 second sec sel- ser ond feet of ot water n water a river full fullIn fu fullin In l Itself lC The high water area are a of ot Hear Bear lake 1018 Is square miles i or acres Its capacity with witha wit a foot 20 Is la nero aero feet fuet f t Each foot of ot water tak tak- tak taken en from the entire surface of or the tho lake wilt will produce from the 1 pres- pres present pret ent Bear river lhor plants U kilowatt hours or horsepower horse horse- horsepower power hours When Cutler Is com com- completed this will be bo Increased to t o hours and with wit tho the projected of CS 68 le lecent per r cent of ot tho the total fall tall in the tho rive riven rl ver r this thIs this this- III be De further increased to kilowatt hours boulS This year as In several years In the tho past the Lift n pumps have ha hav been called upon to transfer the s stored water in Bear Dear lake to the channel of ot of near Dear river to operate B tho Chu stations on the tho system and to provide water for thousands ot of t acres ares of ot lan land l under crop that oth- oth Cra would be bo parched with the th consequent loss of ot crops Official figures of ot the United States do- do of agriculture place the value or ot of tho the crops saved In oIn this way Oay at several millions of dollars I ITIle The TIle d diversion on of ot food flood t waters Into Inti the tho Bear Lake reservoir Is la ot of manifold benefit to the owners the owners of land alo along g this onto wild stream Plant Plants Along ear r Riser The ho chain of ot plants along the thi Bear Dear rIver river operated by b the Utah Power and Light company com prise Onelda the Soda Grace Graco Cove Onci Onel- Oneida da and wheelon generating sta- sta stations I rapidly with v the the tho Cutler plan rapid rapid- ly approaching completion just upstream from froni the wheelon plant The Tho Soda station was waa the tho last completed and put in operation though It is Is the the first plant below the Bear Hear lake storage It Is unique in construction having the gen gen- generating gen rating prating station building built Into the face faco of ot the great dam It Is 1 situated near Alexander On Bear Bea river and as In the the case at al the Cutler site was built almost en- en entirely entirely whir labor labor- obtained In- In Inthe the vicinity of ot the plant and utilized vast quantities of or local materials In Its construction The Tho dam at So- So Soda Soda da affords afford a gross head or of of feet fee with an operating hoad hoed of ot 77 feet The highwater area of the reser- reser voir 1166 1166 acres acres Although this gives a storage capacity of ot acre feet with a ll foot 20 1 t Is primarily a 0 regulating reser reser- vol voir The rho Installed generating capacity cala of the Soda plant Is kilo kilo- kilowatts watts walls or horsepower The stored water there kilowatts kilowatt can be generated at Soda Soda Soda- and Cove e stations for hours or orI I five fhe days This plant sparkling while white let vet wI In a n frame of pines and spreading countryside Is la a n beauty beauli spot of ot singular charm As Is t- t case at the Cutler plant I 1 L B D Full Full- Fuller cr er 1 was ryas construction superintend superintend- superintendent enL ent The Grace plant neAt next below Soda Is the largest plant of tho Bear Dear river system and has an thoI in- in installed I stalled tailed generating capacity of at 44 44 thant 1000 I kilowatts or slightly more than tha t horsepower Its dam clam at- at affords fords an operating head of ot feet reet I the largest on the system and also als provides a large regulating e reser reser- voir I IThe The Cove station Is 13 situated 1 a s short shon distance below Grace It Is Isa isa l a a relatively small station having bavin an Installed capacity of ot kilo kilo- kilowatts kilo watts 1 0 horsepower A little more than 25 miles mile downstream downstream from Cove Covo Is the tho Oneida g generating station This is perhaps the most m st picturesque and compact complete Installation lion tion on the tho Bear river tho the dam pond surge tank and switch switch- switchyard yar yard t all coming within one sweep of ot the eye over the tho landscape The plant Ilant operates with an effective head of ot feet Tho The area of its reservoir at highwater Is acres and a foot 32 32 toot foot provides acre feet of water The Installed ng capacity of ot the tho Onel- Onel Onel Onelda da plant Is kilowatts 40 40 horsepower From storage water alone at Oneida Oneill kilowatts can be bo carried for 48 I hours or 01 two days The Wheelon plant Is about abol miles miles below the outlet of oBear f Deal Bear river at Lifton The |