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Show SIXTY MEN TO BE PUT TO WORK HURRIED REPAIRS PROVE UNAVAILING, UN-AVAILING, PIPES SNAP. Utah Light SL Railway Co. Hoping to Have Big Plant Working Safely .." by Tonight. v' Fifty men were kept at work durin..; the major portion of yesterday In repairing re-pairing the pipe line of the Utah Light & Railway company in Ogden canyon, and in the late hours of th? afternoon the work was declared accomplished. ac-complished. Accordingly the water was turned into the great pipe. A a expression of disappointment shaa-owed shaa-owed tho faces of the managers an-l the working force when, as the rushing rush-ing volume of water reached a point Just this side of the big tunnel at bridge 7, the iron bands of the plpu snapped asunder as though they were made of bailing wire, and the water had to be turned off. Those who had the work in hard state that in their eagerness to mako the repairs hurriedly and furnisf light and power to the city, they had placed only a limited number of bands around the staves, which proved inadequate to hold the staves '.o-gether '.o-gether when the full pressure of the flow of water was turned Into tho pipe. Foreman Stoddard, of the Utah Light & Railway company, states that the force of men at work repairing tho break in the pipe line In Ogden canyon can-yon has been Increased and that in all probability the water will be turned into the power house by six o'clock. If this is done the latter will bo In operation opera-tion by eight o"clock and supplying the city with its customary amount of electric light. |