Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-02-04
The POWER DISPUTE.
Tie Big Cottonwood Company Not An
Interested Parry
FIGHT BETWEEN Tue OTHER Two.
Wat the Former Has Done and IL Now
polEg VITA Its Mammoth
Enterprise.

There were no new developments In
the Big Cottonwood canyon electric
power companies tqusbble today. MT.
Armstrong says that he aud his asso.
clates arc 10 the right and propose to
stand their ground against any and all
opposition. An officer Of the Big Cot.
tonwood company gave out the follow.
Ing carefully prepared interview te TIE
NEWS this afternoon;
The Big Cottonwood Power com.
pany IL In no way concerned In the
warfare that 10 being wagod In tho
| cottonwood canyon between Eek.
Mayor Armstrong and his compsBy
on the one hand and Frank Gillespie
and his associates on the other. Both
the contonding parties are lighting ior
possession OF the water after II leaves
the tall race Of the Big Cottonw oo1
Iowet company below their power
house.
Tine Big Cottonwood Power com-
pany have been carrying on their
work IN the canyon without intermid.
sion Tor upwards OF three years past.
Their principal work has been ex.
pended upon the Stairs reservoir, at
which place an enormous dam has
been constructed. A large tunnel
Through the mountain through which
q Steel PIPE carries the water TO the
powor house with fall OF nearly 400
feet. Another tunnel drains the
reservoir, when necnsafy; ,ihosu
constitute what are tech nionl.
~ called the hoh! wa.hs
ana are all completed. III.
powot house Of brick, cement arf
IRON, IL approaching completion nn1 ~
absolutely IRE proof. TIE steel pipe IN
arriving daily and IL being pu, n place.
Tue pole line Ia completed to thu cor.
ner Of Second E,st .nd Third South
streets, In this city, With twelve wirta
strung.
The electrical equipment Of the plant
~ being manufactured by the GouerAl
Eieciiio company and much OF IL IL
now Ell route from Schenectady, New
YORK. The waterwheels and other hy-
dfAulic appliances we're made by tue
Peiton Wheel company vt Arlington,
New Jefsey,and are nov being shipped
10 this city. All " the apparatus viii
be on the ground within the mex
ioriy days, anu the works shuold b. ia
operation by the hrst Of April next.
These works when co n plelsl Will be
the most remarkable establishment OF
the kind Ia the world and amongst tho
largest, And will have cost when com.
pleted about 100000.
"The company In addition 10 the
above owns tue old Granite paper mills
property, Including 200 acres OF patent.
cd land near the mouth Of the canyon
with avalusble water power. Adjoining
this property and Just within the
canyon they own the Butler saw mill
property, with another valuable water
power with about sixty acres Of
patented land. Between the Butler
mill and the "StairsD plant OF this
company 10 n stretch OF the stream.
lecsted several years ago by Frank X.
Gillespie.
"The Big Cottonwood Power Co.,
respected Glllvspis's location, which
seems TO have bsen subsequently |
jumped or relocated by Mr.. Arnold |
In the Interest OF Mr.. Armstrong aud
his company, who has been doiug
more or less work on the stream Tor the |
pact year or two. a few months ago |
appeared on the scene again
with party OF wotkmen aud has Wig
ofously prosecuted the work since, un. |
III few days ago, when q large party
OF men appeared In the can.
yon, estimated nj upwards OF
100, under the leadership OF OF.
Mayor Armatrong, who 10y force
moved tho Gillespie men from the
work. IL 10 stated that on Sunday
night Gillespie returned to the can.
Jon repaired the work destroyed by
the Armstrong party connected his
workings with an old Turbine
wheel, started up u small elec.
trio dynamo and produced sevt.
raj arc lights. = A few hours after
producing the electric current his little
wosks were overwhelmed with Q land
slide which covered with earth all his
thus the MISTER STANDS
Today. Tho rights OF the Armstrong
party and the Gillespie party will hsve
10 be determined by the courts.
"ln addition 10 the properties OF the
Big Cottonwood Power company
already onumsratlve, they also
,wn by purchase another old ssw
mill location known M Mil
b, about two miles up the s.ream
rom tho 'Slalrs," and mn.
'thsr water power location nuiI
'bove that and jost below the
mouth OF the south fork OF tho Cotton.
wood. Active work has been cogtinu-
'nsly maintained by the company on
vi OF their property. There IL no con.
roversy ~ TO their rights which are In
10 way Questioned by the warning
'artles In the canyon. The company
AVE given employment 10 $50 men
nd many teams for the psst six
months and viii have expended half q
lillion dollars In all including the
nIchase price OF the various old time
'ateT-power locations owned by 1t.
"fhe completion OF this transmis-
lon electric plant Of tho Big Cotton
'ooi power company will mark q new
poca In the history OF our city. II
III displace n large tonnage OF