The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-08
BUSINESS, MINING ANDMILLINC.

pany with gas, claim that the electric
people agreed to lay substantial and
gas tight line from this city to the
wells at Lake Shore. This line, SO it
is claimed, leaks badly, so that a
greater portion of the pressure is lost
while the gas is in transit to this city;
and this leakage, the gas company
states, is one of the reasons, and the
main one, for the weak pressure in the
mains; and the gas company claims,
Furthermore, that the electric company,
knowing this to be true, has made no
special effort 10 repair the line, with
the result that large amount OF gas
is lost daily, and that but for this loss
there would be heavy pressure at all
times, and that there would always be
plenty of gas for all purposes. and
more, too.
In consequence of this coalition of
affairs and the alleged failure of the
electric company to make settlement
for gas furnished by the gas company,
the latter company will file a suit
against the former tomorrow. The at
torneys for the gas company, so The
Herald is informed, are Goodwin &
Van Pelt, and Brown, Henderson &
King.
Another kick that is being made
against the Electric Light company is
that the electric lights furnished by
it are exceedingly poor in quality.
This complaint is general throughout
the city, and a number of prominent
citizens made the statement yesterday
that they would almost as soon have
an oldfashioned candle dip for a light
as the lights now furnished by the
company, as now the electric lights
were so poor and weak that it took
four of them to make the light that
was formerly made by one globe; and
it is fact thatan electric light globe
diffuses about as much light at the
present time as an ablebodied glow
worm or an oldfaShioned lightning bug;
and it is for this reason that number
of our Well-to-do citizens are now talk
ing of putting in electric lights indie
pendent of the Salt Lake & Ogden COM
pany.
1t is understood that the electric
light company give as a reason for this
poor service that the Big Cottonwood
Power company, from which it derives
the major portion of its electrical sup
ply, has failed to meet the demand, on
account of which the old dismantled
power plant in this city is now being
overhauled, the intention being to
generate electrical power to meet the
demand.
Colonel Donnellan, one of the officers
Of the Big Cottonwood Power COM
pany, when seen on this subject by a
Herald reporter, stated that it was not
true that his company was unable to
furnish all the electricity needed, and
that the fault lay entirely with the
electric company on account of it's mis-
management. The electric light COM
pany, according to the colonel had
connected the line, which is known as a
three-phase line, with line in the up
per portion of the city that is only a
one-phase line, and this had disorgan-
lied the whole system, as the effort to
supply the one-phase line from a three
phase circuit would knock the ever
lasting stuffing out of the former, in
consequence of which it was dangerous
for the one-phase line to turn on the
full strength of the three-phase system,
the result being that the lights all over
the city were poor.
1t is the general impression and opin-
ion that if the electric light company
continues TO give such poor service in
the future that it is the duty of the
city council to cancel its franchise, and
it cannot do it any too soon if it wishes
to please a long suffering people!