The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-24
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each. This will make 5000 horse pow
er. The machines which will generate
the electricity will be four in number
connected directly with these whee-s
and not a belt or bit of shafting vii
be found in the establishment. The
generators are the best machines made
in the world and are 500 kiloWatt ma
chimes, of extraordinary power.
Wires are already strung on the poles
from the power house to this city
! There are twelve wires in all, of the
best of copper. and the total weight OF
the same is 100000 pounds, represent
! ing eight carloads, at a cost of about
| $4,000. The price of the poles was not
/ stated, but one can compute IT by es-
timating each pole when placed in posi-
! ton at SIS. The distance is about six
teen miles, which at the rate the poles
are set would bring the total close to
| $1l, 900. The insulators are not figured
in this computation.
In order to economic on distance,
these poles We're not set in a line going
around hills and mountains; they cross
ed over. Great difficulties were en-
countered in getting them into place,
and some skillful engineering had to
be exercised at times, but mans inge-
nufty prevailed and they are all in
place.
There has been nothing easy fn amy
OF the work. Blasting had to be done
In the construction of the tunnel, in
setting the poles and in many other in
stances. The company had to spend
several thousand dollars in changing
the county road above the stairs, +"
| constructing a bridge building a rock
cut in getting the road to grade, etc.
When equipped, the plant will be the
best in the world. The corporation has
purchased none but the best material;
has bought nothing except the latest
and most improved machinery.
UTAH POWER COMPANY.
But while the Big Cottonwood com
peny has expended great deal of
money, It is lot alone in rs under
taxing. The Utah Pcwer company, too,
Is IN the field and while not a COMPETE
Tor Tor the same power as that owned
by the first mentioned will have a
plant by no means inferior, although
eneountering, perhaps, greater diff
cultleS IN bringing the water to its
power house.
The dam of the Utah company is
located just below that of the Big
Cottonwood company; taking in it's
tail race From thence to its power
house is a distance of something over
I20oO feet. To cover this distance it
mas had TO construct a fiume three feet
nigh and six feet wide, of dressed lum-
Der, for two miles. The work of laying
this f1ume has been no small task Its
route followed the contour of the
mountains on the north side of the
canyon. In many places blasting has
had to be done in order to cut a place
for the same, while in others bridging
was resorted to in order to span some
oh ~ ~,
The flume in its present state shows
up finely and the glistening lumber
against the dark side of the granite
makes a pretty scene; just such a one
as would delight an engineer.
AT the northern end of the two miles
of f1ume begins 1900 feet of pipe,
which winds around the hills to
point above the location of the power
house, which is at the mouth of the
canyon. The fall from the end of the
pipe to the power house is asa feet.
The steel pipe which will be used is
much the same in character as that
employed by Jones, save that the
joints are not similar, the pipe being
riveted in place into one continuous
section. 1t is six inches smaller in
size than that used by the Big Cotton
wood company, but the fall being
greater the same amount of power can
be obtained.
Work on the excavation of the power
house has already been begun and the
machinery has been ordered. Like that
used by the corporation mentioned
above, it will be of the very best char
acter. The poles and wires have also
been ordered and will be set and
strung in a short time.
superintendent Arnold was not at
home yesterday, so material facts as
to the exact amount of the cost of
construction could not be aScertained
but the reader can gather from the
magnitude of the work done the enor-
nous expense. The lumber alone in
the flume cannot cost less than $780,
600, TO say nothing of the expense of
construction.
When this plan is completed and in
operation the power generated will be
equal to that produced at the other
company's works.
FRANK GILLESPIE'S WORK.
1t is impossible to refer to the work
which has been done under the direc-
ton of Frank K. Gillespie, without an
incidental reference to the contest be-
tween him and the Utah Power com
pany. In this reference no desire to
speak upon the merits of the battle is
present. That will have to be settled
in the courts
Gillespie and the Utah Power COM
pany claim a right to the water as it
comes from the tail race of the Big
Cottonwood company and the waters
which enter the stream from a point
below the reservoir mentioned and
said tail race. The former wants to
take the water from the south. the
latter from the north side. Gillespie
has constructed ditch and flume
westward down the canyon, for sew
eral hundred yards and there makes a
crossing to the north and parallels the
flume and ditch of the Utah company
with another ditch to a point near
where it expects to connect its pipe
leading to the power house He also
claims the land located by the Utah
company for the purpose of erecting
buildings.
He has had a large force of men at
work for some time and, while he has
not constructed any great amount of
huming, he has done great deal of |
valuable and expensive work.
At the point in the canyon where he |
makes his crossing from the south to |
the north side, he has placed a $50 |
horse power turbine wheel and a gene |
rator in position and is lighting up
the canyon at night with several arc |
lights of 1000 candle power. He has a !
head fall of 81 feet from his fume |
to his temporary power house, which |
runs nightly.
The outcome of the legal proceedings
which will follow cuts no figure with |
the intents and purposes of this dis
sertation. Suffice it to say that one |
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