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Show POWER PLANT IR WEBEtJCflfJVOfJ The big power plant in Weber canyon can-yon is rapidly nc arlnc completion and will 8oou be In readiness for operation. opera-tion. The massive G.Ono horso power generator gen-erator has been placed In position and Is now being tuned up by the experts brought here by the Weber Power Plant company to place the plant n i operation. J The threo great transformers, each wlih a capacity of 2,000 horse power, have been Installed and the 10-Inch ' shaft sustaining the latter is being! carefully adjusted as a variation of a ! hundredth part of an inch would soon work havoc with the expensive machinery. The giant generator Is of the horizontal hori-zontal turbine typo and quite different from the ordinary perpendicular turbines tur-bines in common use throughout the country. With tho latter the water motion is from top to bottom while with the horizontal type now being Installed tho action Is from side to side. The mile and a quarter intake pipe line has been completed and the steel towers for conveying the heaw voltage vol-tage wires have been erected to the number of 35. These giender towers are of the latest type and cost In tho neighborhood of $700 each. The new plant is to bo absolutely fire proof nothing being used in Its construction or furnishings but brick iron and cement. |