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Show GHEEVER ENDS HISTESTIMOftSY Cross Examination of Utah Power Engineer Brought to Close SALT LAKE, April 30. Technical tostimony was offered yesterday in the closing appearance of Markham Chee-ver, Chee-ver, engineer of tho Utah Power and Light company, after four days of cross examination by attorneys for the consumers. Mr. Cheever's testimony throughout tho day was full of references to such terms as "synchronous condensers," "K. V. A.," "K. W. II.," "wattles current," cur-rent," "power factor," "kilowatt year," "effective output average," "peak generating gen-erating capacity" and "load factor." Ho also explained that it is possible to have a "partial power load" and a "full current load" at tho same time. Practically each of the attorneys present, and their number has dwindled dwin-dled considerably during the hearing, asked Mr. Choever "just a few questions" ques-tions" before he left tho stand. Lloyd M. Garrison, representing tho Purity Biscuit company, Spent some time eliciting elic-iting information with regard to the M.OOO-volt substations. J. S. Mitchell, for the Utah Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association, cross-examined along, tho lines of how the company can determine the losses claimed between be-tween the generators' and the consumers' consum-ers' meters, and also on whether the i per cent depreciation is based on actual experience or is a mere estimate. esti-mate. Commissioner "Wnrren Stoutnour called attention to the power line running run-ning from tho Grace plant of tho Utah Power & Light to the Idaho Power company's system at McCammon. Ho also asked for a list of the plants salvaged salv-aged and not operated, and also for a list of the leased plants. The Investment cost of the Bear river system's peak power por kilowatt kilo-watt hour was given as 33S at tho terminal and $3S4 at tho average 14,-000-vol.t consumer's substation. ' Mr. McLane also deduced tho stato ment that a large part of -the.--Bear river plant would not have been built had it not been for the load of the Utah Copper company, which the power pow-er company undertook to supply. Tho copper company's maximum load of SO.'OOO kilowatts, Mr. Cheever said, is more than half the regular output of the Bear river plant. John F. McLane of counsel for the power company deduced the statoment from Mr, Cheever that it would require re-quire a year, a largo force of experts and considerable money to reach a physical valuation of the company's plants in Utah, of which there arc more than twenty. Mr. Cheever also i ii H 1 1 1 1 1 iii - 1 11 1 isifcfcfcj i in i a i in told Mr. McLane that the Jordan Narrows Nar-rows plant aqd the Park City plant .havo not bcen'oparated, but their total output would be loss than 1 per cent of the entire power ouput of the com-Tiany. com-Tiany. W. W. Kay, representing several mining companies, brought out that, while many of the Utah generating plants had. boon operating practically continously, several of thom, for at least a part of tho time, had been operating merely as "synchronous con denaerB," and that for that purpose the Installation of largo water-power facilities facil-ities was a heavy oxpense, since the water power is used only to start tho generators "when thoy are being UBcd to regulato tho power ourront. When running no new power. The reply of Mr. Cheever was that the plants were also operated as power generators, but lie could not off-hand give tho proportions pro-portions of the time of the plants tic voted to each of these ubob. He will furnish tho records on this subject. nn |