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Show WATER POWER NOW BEING INfRFAtfn j Within the next six weeks or two months, the Pioneer power plant of the Utah Light & Railway company, will be equipped with Us new ma chinery. Dredging of the reservoir in Ogden canyon has been completed, and the reservoir southwest of the plant Is being built rapidly Manager S. T. Whitaker states that the reservoir in the canyon now has a drpth of 35 feet at the concrete base and thero is an average depth of about S feet over the entire basin This means a larg Mti)ilv of water when the reservoir is tilled. Water will not be turned Into the great conduit leading to the turbine wheels, however, until the new ma cninery has been installed and every thing Is In nadine?s for the operation opera-tion of (he plant at full capacity. The company Is also making BXten-slvo BXten-slvo Improvements In the gas department depart-ment by the extension of mains over the entire city without waiting for contracts from the people The old wrought Iron main9 are being replaced with cast Iron pipes that range from 16 to 12 Inches. The blu gas tank, recently idi.it. ' Is being carefully tested and additional addition-al retorts and benches are being In stalled. Mr. Whitaker says the new tank will be placed in commission in about HO days no |