The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-02
,GGDEN
~ Department
ogden. March .,
THE GREAT POWER pAM.
It's Feasibility and Bright Pros-
poets Admitted by the Represent
tative of Eastern Capital.

Matters pertaining to the power dam
look brighter than for many a day. AS
the work goes steadily on in the canyon
and thousands and thousands of dollars
are expended the success of the scheme
becomes more apparent, and at the same
time all doubts as to the ability OF the
projectors to put it through disappears.
Yesterday at 1:15 a party arrived from
Salt Lake with Joseph Bannigan, of
Providence, r.. F. Among the party were
George @. Cannon, John r; Winder, Judge
". H. King, Thomas Marshall, 4. +.
Woodruff, LIE Grand Young. Joseph +.
Smith.
The party was met at the depot by Mr..
A. B. Patton, president of the chamber of
zens. The party was driven to the city
hall and a few minutes were spent in
general sociability Among those met to
welcome the visitors we're Judge Patton.
Dee. Don Mcguire, N. G. Flygare i. R.
Rogers, A. r. Haywood Senator Allison,
Mayor Spencer, John Watson, w. F.
Adams, f. j. Kiesel.
Judge Patton, as president of the cham
Der of commerce, then called an informal
meeting of that body to order and asked
that Mayor Spencer take the chair.
MIR. Patton then stated that Mr.. Ban
nlgan was considering the adviSabiHty
of investing capital in the power dam pro-
Ject and that he desired to know how the
citizens of this community felt toward
the enterprise and its promoters.
Judge Dee was the first to respond by
saying that SO far as he knew the people
had great confidence in the project and
in its promoters. They believed in it as
business enterprise and would support
Ii not only with their moral support,
but with financial backing.
Mr. k1esel followed with remarks equal
ly as strong, Don Mcguire pointed out
some. the results to be achieved by the
~ Ia L. 1G1k al
to the faith which the people had in those
interested in furthering the scheme.
Senator E. NJ, Allison spoke in an equal
~ forcible manner of his confidence in the
ultimate success of the project.
Judge Rolapp- said he had always had
faith in the enterprise, first because of his
friendship for Senator Cannon, whose
whole energies and talent were being
given to 1t, but afterwards because of its
feasibility as a business enterprise.
A. r. Haywood spoke strongly for the
project, as did Fred Adams. n. c,
Flygare said he endorse the enterprise.
The street railway company, he said, was
now using about $50 horse power, and
would be pleased to contract with the Pho
neer Power Co. for as much more. L. R.
Rogers told how the city council Of Ogden
had once voted an appropriation of
$4,000 to the Southern Pacific company
in consideration of the building here of
the shops The payment of the money
was illegal, but no citizen protested and
no injunction was ever asked for.
Mayor Spencer said the city had made
contracts for its lighting for a short
period only, hoping for the time to come
when contract might be made with
the power company.
Mr.. Bannigan was then called upon,
and after few pleasant remarks he
stated his position as follows: 1.-THE pro-
ject looks feasible, looks bright. 1t is
certainly undertaking that can be
made to better the conditions of your
city. | can say that is my opinion. The
whole matter, so far as l am concerned,
has not come to position where [ can
say, yes, it will go ahead. When it does,
then there will be only one power that
will stop it, and that would be the AL
mighty power. But it looks very bright
to me. l think when [ get the time to
get at all the facts in relation to it, we
may be able to go on with it. [ would
not like to make any extended remarks
at present" ,i
George. O. Cannon followed, stating that
his interest in the project and that of
some of the others associated with him
had been primarily to do something for
Ogden. They saw great power there
which could be made useful, and they
had entered upon the project because
they felt sure 1t would prove self-sup-
porting and would enrich not only Ogden,
but the whole state.
He said the company did not wish and
would not infringe on the rights OF any
other company or individual.
After this meeting the party separated
and some went to meeting of the
directors of the Power company.
LIE Grand Young began investigating
legal matters for his employers. He
found clerical error IN the articles re-
incorporating the company, and he took
necessary steps to correct the same.
The directors. meeting occupied the
whole of the afternoon and was held in
Mr. Bannister's Office. Mr.. Bannigan was
present and went over the plans very
carefully with the experts. No further
information was given out and will not
he for several days.