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Show of pipe, or rather, 4.3fi0 feet of pipe,1 was $51,000. Tho company, as said, Is Invading Salt Lake county and Is now supply-Ins supply-Ins a number of persons In ihn southern south-ern part of tho county with light and power, and the Intention Is U, build Its lines Into Salt Lake. Power and light are now supplied by the company to nearly all the mines and most all users of electric light und power In the Tln-tiC Tln-tiC district, and within : couple of days the new lines which are beins erected in Salt Iake county will add 700 more horsepower. At the pumping station near Llii the plant which pumps the water from I'tah lake into the canal which mip-piles mip-piles vatrr for Irrigating purposes in Salt Lake City, Is run by power furnished fur-nished from the American Fork plant. The company has had this contract for the past six years And It has three more to run. Can Take Care of Salt Lake. The lines Into th Tlntlc district cost $00,000. and the company supplies sup-plies about 75 pt cent of the light and power In that district. The plants, as they are today, could take care of all the light and pmpr In Salt Lake City, excepting, of course, the street car system. t COMPETITION IN LIGHT AND POWER Another Company Is Now Invading Salt Lake County. Salt Lake. July 27. There Is a new electric light and power company Invading In-vading Salt Ijtke county, ami which will ultimately come to Salt Lake City. I" fact, a representative of this new company was in Salt Lake City on Tuesday looking after contracts for power. This company is the Utah TJcht & I Power companv of American Kork, of I which J II. Woolen is the head. The j company has expended a half million dollars, of which sum over $200,000 has been expended this year. Thro plants are owned by the company, two in American Fork canyon, can-yon, run by water, and one steam plant at American Fork, the three plants generating 5,.oo horsepower, while anothei steam plant which will generate 2.000 horsepower is to be erected at Mid vale in this county. Highest Head Plant In World. One of the plants in American Fork canyon, the one at Alpine, is the highest high-est head plant in the United States, if not in the world, the water having 2.000 feet head, with a static pressure of 8S0 pounds to the square inch. This head of water comes down through a steel pipe one mile In length, and which the company had to obtain In Germany, as there is no pipe made In America strong enough to withstand such pressure. The cost of this mllo |