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Show POWER coipiy- AI DISADVANTAGE The Weber Canyon Power company Is experiencing the disadvantage of having completed Its new power plant in Weber canyon and being unable to commence, the operation of It owing to the fact that tho water cannot bo shut off from the Irrigating canal of the Davis & Weber counties Canal company long enough to permit the reservoir above the plant to fill. Everything is In readiness for starting start-ing the big plant in operation, but the v ater above the dam is not deep enough to cover the Intake pipe through which water must be conducted conduct-ed to tho plant. The Intake pipe Is seven feet In diameter, which will ne- cessltate that depth of water at least. J i before the machinery can be put In j , motion. ; There Is an abundance of water In j the river and it Is thought that the reservoir could be filled in less than 2t hours, but the farmers whose crops depend on the supjjy being maintained maintain-ed In the canal will not permit the company to turn orf water for even tho short time mentioned, ' As tho irrigation canal headgates 1 are below the power plant and the ' abundance of water In the river must ' pass through the power plant on Us way to the canal headgates when once the reservoir is filled sufficiently to ' cover the plant's intake pipe, the pow-' pow-' j cr company Is at a loss how to pro-5 pro-5 j cced In as much as the Irrigating com-j com-j pany has the prior rights to the water v and are therefore iu a poslllou to dic- i late, |