The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-23
4 DECISION TO-DAY.
Judge Zane VIII Solve the Elec.
tric Problem this Morning.
EVIDENCE ADDUCED YESTERDAY
The General Opinion Seems to be That thc
Telephone People VIII Suffer
Defeat.

The suit Tor an injunction brought by the
Bell Telephone company against the Salt
Lake Street Railway company was resumed
yesterday morning, the first witness called
being
Il. b. CAMPBELL,
who was formerly superintendent of the
electric light works. He said: The electric
light wires carry fifteen hundred to four
thousand volts. The line on the east side
2f East Temple street last winter carried
1900 volts. There was only one side of a
circuit there, and at first it interfered with
the telephone, but this was remedied by
putting in a return wire on the tele-
phone. Our Ogden works are six miles up
the canon. The telephone wires up the
canon are strung on the electric light poles
With both the systems-Of this city and
Ogden-in operation, l have had fire.
quent communication with the works
In Ogden cailon over the telephone.
The electric light and telephone
wires are parallel for three to four miles,
about two or three feet apart. The Ogden
electric light wire carries 1,S00 to 2.40O
volts. With the street car wire about ten
feet from the telephone wires on First
South street, would say there would be
no interference. l was familiar with the
electric system for street railroad in Den
yer; that was entirely different to the
Sprague system, and would interfere with
the telephone. There could be very little
leakage from the feed wire of the street
car system now being put in in Salt Lake.
1t is copper wire, and copper and silver
are the best conductors. The iron rail is a
decidedly better conductor than the dry
earth. The street railway, with the rail,
has a complete circuit. The water pipes
would make good conductor. If both
parties grounded to the water pipes they
would interfere If one was III the moist
earth and one in the water pipes, there
would be no interference. The telephone
ines and street car lines can be maintained
II the relation they are now; there will be
10 induction. The Sprague and Thorn
son Houston systems are practically the
sally successful systems, and they are on
the same principle.
To Mr.. Williams-The Dast system l
consider failure We have four arc and
two incandescent light circuits with the
electric works. l think the rail would
carry the current sent out over the street
car feed wire. The grounding of the cur
rent is in the event of a breallage in the
rail. l don't wonder that Mr.. Lewis did
not find any current in the rail when he
went about in the way he did. There was
n current there but he did not apply his in
strument to find it. He did not make
proper connection. ! understood he did not
have that object in view, but took the
proper means to attain his object, which
was to show there was no danger. In this
city electric light wires parallel telephone
wires for two blocks.
To Mr.. RaWlins-Mr Lewis test demon
Strated that there was no danger IN touch
ing the rail; / understood that to be his
intention; if the telephone wire falls on
the railway wire it Will be burned because
il is too small to carry the current: the in
zTr-lv- I
a 4Elding would not be fired that way;
theTd is no der to the user; it is the in
sulau'on tina. burned; there is absolutely
no danger; lightning viii sometimes cause
telephone annunCiatOrs to drop; induction
would not cause such thing, if the wires
were only three inches apart; if the tele-
phone wire has no grounding there would
be no effect by contact.
To Mr. Villa nls-When the electric
light wires came in contact wit b the tele
phone wire the latter was burne1 but tn e
wooden box was not injured.
Aw. M'CUNE
testified: I am stakeholder of the Salt
Lake City railroad company. When east
visited various places to investigate the
different systems of street car propulsion.
Have been east four times on that business
The Sprague system seemed to be a com
plete success. The Thomson-Houston
system is also a success. Both are prac-
ticaIly the same. We got the Sprague
Sprague has a feed wire and the Thomson
Houston sends all its current through the !
trolley wire. | have travelled on the cleo
trio cars at twenty miles per hour The
Sprague system carries a little less voltage
than the other, but neither will give seri- |
Gus shock. 1 saw the telephone wires
running parallel in number of
places. At the power-house a buzz
ing could be heard when the car
was-Slose, but it did not interfere with
BUSH Tess. The buzzing is no greater than
that fcaused by atmospheric influences in |
MonSana. Never heard that telephone COM |
munfcation would be seriously affected I'M |
til it was alleged in this case. We will be |
ready to start by August l. We have ex-
pended fully Sl5O,0O0 on the electric plant. |
A suspension will cause US that much loss, |
at least. Our cars will run every ten |
minutes, from the three railway depots to |
First South and the Twentieth Ward lines. |
We have to put our poles in the centre of |
the street, as that is the city ordinance. To |
put them on the side would be a greater |
obstruction to the street, for there would |
be two lines, connected by wires. The |
trolley wire must go in the same position
as it is now.
To Mr.. Williams-We will have double
lines most of the distance when we start;
now have eight or nine miles of electric
road altogether; our power house, engines
End dynamOs are larger than those in
on, ala. or any other place in America; the
tele,pfpne lines and street car trolley wires
in Oihaha run together a considerable dis
lance.
To Mr.. Rawlins-Our plant is large
enough to supply our whole system and up
to 30 miles: we proposed TO the telephone
company to put our wires on their poles, 4
and Mr. Annett said he thought there was
no objection; went east and when l came
back Mr. Wallace said they would not al
low it; he said he did not know the railway
would hurt them, but he thought they