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Show uu TECHNICAL EVIDENCE. OFFERED AT HEARING SALT LAKE. May 14. Expert evidence evi-dence of a highly technical character was introduced at the hearing of the public utilities commission by the Utah Copper company to show that the company could generate the -12,-200 horsepower that may be required at its plant with contemplated improvements, im-provements, at a cost to the company j ci 4.95 mills per kilowatt hour At that the company's .power bill, inolud- i I ins interest and depreciation on the proposed plant, would amount to ?1.400,QOO approximately. This evidence was introduced with a two-fold purpose, first of opposing the proposed increase in power rates asked by the Utah Power & Light' company, which now supplies tho Utah Copper company with hydrolectric energy, en-ergy, and is asking for an increase in all its power -schedules; second of sliowing that the estimates presented by the power company for a proposed steam plant near LenI on the shores of Utah lake are unnecessarily expensive The Utah Power & Light company has had plans drawn and estimates made for a plant on the shores cf Utah lake to develop 450,00 kilowa'ts With an additional or sspace generator of 15,000 kilowatts, winch, it is said, would cost for installation alone, something some-thing more than ?7,000.000. In addition to this the company would have to spend another estimated 2,000,000 on a power transmission line to get the energy to tho power terminal at Salt Lake, bringing the total cost up to about ?10,000,000. On top of this would be the annual operating ex-pens, ex-pens, for which, the customers of the public utility would have to pay. oo |