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Show TO CONTINUE WORK UNDER A RECEIVER Boise, Idaho, April 14. Judge Frank S. Dietrich of the federal court has just issued an order permitting the receiver of the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power company to issue receiver's re-ceiver's certificates up to $250,000 to be used In the completion of the Oxbow Ox-bow power plant located on the Snake river between Idaho and Oregon. The application of tho receiver for this authority was made some time ago, and the stockholders of the company divided on defending and opposing It. The risk to the Issuance of the certi--ficates is to be atLiched to those stockholders who backed up the receiver re-ceiver In his application. They are said to have made arrangements for the disposal of the certificates, thereby there-by raising the money to finish the work on the plant. When the Oxhow tunnel plant was started some years ago' by the Idaho-Oregon Idaho-Oregon company, its backers then had no Idea that It would cost the amount of money that It has. The drilling of a tunnel through a mountain moun-tain of rock and revenues that were unforseen at the time the work was started, took all of the original estimate esti-mate and additional funds failed to complete the work. The plant is one of the most important im-portant to the development of electrical elec-trical energy in southern Idaho. It represents a difficult piece of engineering. engi-neering. When the, power war broke out among tlfe "various big power corporations cor-porations In the southern Idaho field, and the stockholders of the various Interests began to quarrel, work on the Oxbow plant was abandoned, and since then up to the present time there has been little done. Now the Idaho-Oregon needs the electricity from a large generating plant. A receiver having been appointed for that company to handle its affairs pending the outcome of the litigation litiga-tion that involves it and instituted in the federal court, proposes to supply this energy by going ahead with the completion of tho plant and has secured se-cured the approval of the courL |