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Show : Chicago Engineers In Light Rate Case SALT LAKE, May 11. Figures and testimony showlg comparison between 3team generating and hydroelectric power plants In general and probable cost3 of a steam plant on the shores of Utah Lake, consumed most of the time of the public utilities commission yesterday at tho hearing on tho application ap-plication of the Utah Ptfwcr and Light company for an Increase In its power rates. William S. Monroe of Sargent and Lundy, Chicago engineers, was the principal witness of the day. Louis Elliot, steam plant expert of Electric Bond and Share company, was the stand at the close of the day, and his cross-examination will continue today, i Mr. Monroe was cross-examined om I his exhibit, which showed that to Nhulld a 45,000-kllowatl plant, with an installed capacity northeast end of Utah Lake would cost 57,55 1,000. Tho exhibit showed an additional cose for a 132,000-volt line from the plant to the Salt Lake terminal . would bo I $2,4 60,700 more making the total cost ; of the addition to the Utah Power & Light company $10,014,700. Tho company had offered this in I ovldenco as tho possible method that would have to be adopted were the demand on the company ror power to continue too Increase as It had in the past. It was testified that some comparatively small additions to the power plant could be obtained on the' Hear river system, but that the cheap-' est installations thore had been adopt-' ed first, and that additional installa-i lions would cost more per kilowatt' than those at present in service. Tho alternative was a steam plant such as Sargent fc Lundy had been asltea I to prepare preliminary plans for on Utah Lake. |