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Show Sugar House to Have Best Lighted Streets in Utah Termed "the most progressive step which has been taken in Sugar House since removal of the railroad tracks nearly 40 years ago," by John C. Barnes, local chamber committee man, the new "white way' lighting system for Sugar House was recently made ready to be installed on the main thoroughfares of Sugar House: Eleventh East, Highland Drive and 21st South. Removal of Old Poles First step to be taken by the Utah Power & Light Company in installation will be to remove all the unsightly utility poles and wires along the streets mentioned. mention-ed. Replacing them will be 147 incandescent lamps mounted on 1 standards of sectional type tubular tu-bular steel with light centers, approximately ap-proximately 28 feet high. The brackets are to be ornamental steel, upsweep pendant type extending ex-tending the lamp 6 feet from the standard. There will be only one overhead wire between the standards. Area lighted by the new system sys-tem will include the present business bus-iness district, with allowance for additional space for future commercial com-mercial expansion. It will start at Ramona Ave. on the north and extend to Simpson Ave. on the south. On the west it will begin at 7th East on 21st South and end at 13th East. According to A. L. Leick, Utah Power & Light Company representative the work will soon be started, and barring shortage of materials, will be completed in 60 to 90 days. Finest in Utah When completed the new lighting will surpass anything in Utah, both from lighting effectiveness ef-fectiveness as well as economy to the taxpayers, Mr. Barnes said. Installation cost will be borne by the power company and Salt Lake City will pay 30 per cent of yearly service cost. Property owners will pay about 58 cents per front foot per year, it is estimated. The white way system will attract at-tract more customers to Sugar House, and will have a pleasing effect on tourists, Mr. Barnes said. All lamps will operate until midnight at which time half of them will be turned off, the remainder thus providing sufficient light for traffic safety safe-ty and protection from vandalism vandal-ism and theft Plans Started Last Year Movement for a white way lichting system was started a little lit-tle more than a year ago when Mr. Barnes and other chamber officials suggested that it be done. Representatives from the Utah Power & Light Company drew up tentative plans for the system at that time and presented present-ed them at a meeting of the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. To illustrate how Effective Effec-tive the new lamps would be, the power company installed sample poles south of the 21st South intersection on 11th East. Next step was the circulation of a petition by the chamber public affairs committee, which secured signatures of 70 per cent of the property owners affected by the plan. Petition was presented pre-sented to city commission, which approved it for study by the city engineer's office. After rn-figuring rn-figuring by the engineer, the plan was advertised for bids, and notices were sent to property owners. No protests were made at the public meeting which had been advertised. Final approval for the plan was given Friday, May 21. |