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Show POWER WILL BE ON IN .30 DAYS Frank Gowan, foreman for P. J. Moran. who had part of the contract for the building of the flume and pow. cr house for the Utah Light & Railway Rail-way company In Weber canyon, states that with thirty days of good weather the completed flume and plant will be turned over to tho company ready for operation. When completed the plant will gen-erate gen-erate 6.000 horsepower. The pipe line la a departure in generating electricity by water power in the west. Instead of following the old plan of having the pipe lino follow the sides of tho mountain moun-tain for several miles, and then malce a sudden drop into tho power plant, os Is done by practically every power company in the west, this line starts from a point a little over three miles up the canyon and follows, ns nearly as possible, the natural drop of tho river, with the exception that. Instead of following the many turns of the Weber, the big pipe line takes a comparatively com-paratively straight course. It goc6 through parts of the mountain where the river goes around; it crosses tho river at a point where the water of the river drops nearly twenty feet In as many feet, and goes straight on to the power plant. The big flume, built partly of concrete con-crete and partly of wooden staves, reinforced re-inforced with steel bars, Is nearly seven feet across at the opening and gradually narrows to five feet. It means a clear, straight shoot of water such as has neer before been secured se-cured by any power company in tho west, and it is predicted that the plant will mark a new era of power plants In tho west. |