The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-16

The Jordan NarrowS Power COM
pany is questioned because of its fail
are to put an electric line into Bing-
ham this spring, as it engaged to do
The company is not renewing prom
ises at this time, says the Bulletin, but
its representatives say the line will be
here at the earliest moment, and we
may predict the time is distant but a
few weeks.
A Bulletin reporter visited the COM
pany's headquarters this week and
learned that A. C. Lamson. the presi-
dent and manager, is now in the east
closing up some financial matters and
expected to return in few days, when
active operations will again be push
ed. The company has done an immense
amount of work in the past three or
four months, employing a force vary
ing from 100 to $50 men, and ac-
complished what as originally planned
would have required two years to do.
The project contemplated gradual in
crease of water power. to be OBJ
tanned by deepening and charging the
Utah and Salt Lake canal, from which
it takes water. This was to de done
by a system of gradual dredging. Per-
mission having been obtained last
winter to drain the canal, ii was de-
cided as a stroke of economy to do
the work at once. 1t has kept the COM
pany hustling to meet the payroll.
A writer in the Engineering News,
describing the canal and plant, says:
The canal runs through a very rough
country, and no pains have been
spared in its enlargement to meet the
demands of the power plant TO leave all
construction as substantial as posi-
l. TIL, Ian. 4
and deepened to four times its former
capacity, and will now carry 600
cubic feet per second.
It has fall of one foot per mile, a
bottom width of from 20 to &c feet, and
carries seven feet depth of water. Three
fumes will be constructed, of which the
shorter one. of 300 feet, is now finished:
the two longer ones, of 200 feet and 1,200
feet, respectively and which are cut
offs from the old canal line. will be
built soon, the water for the present
going around through its old channel.
These fumes are 20 feet wide, and
carry eight feet Of water. Opposite the
site for the power plant a very strong
system of gates is put in the canal, and
a concrete masonary forebay is being
built From this, four lines of Y inch
sheet pipe viii lead down to the power
house a distance of 300 feet.
The wheel-pit of the power house is
13xS2 feet inside, the power house be
ing 26xS2 feet. There will be four zee
horse power Mccormick turbines in
two pairs Each turbine has two dis
charge or draft tubes, on account of
having at times to discharge water at
two different levels. The longer tubes
discharge into the wheel-pit. from
which a tail race leads direct to the
Jordan river The shorter tubes dis
charge inside the power house into tail
races which lead to two other irriga-
ton canals. one on each side of the
river. and about 90 feet higher than the
same. During the irrigation season
full supply will have TO be returned to
each of these to compensate for the
taking out Of the water above their
headgates. Two different heads. one of
81 feet and of "a feet, can thus be used
on any turbine, according to necessity.
There Will be four 500-K-W., three
phase, 300-revOlutions per minute gen
orators. one directly connected to each
turbine. The Westinghouse system of
electrical machinery Will be used
throughout.
At the present time the canal lex
cept the two longer fiumes) is finished;
the very heavy excavations for pres
sure pipes, the wheel pit and the
power house are completed; the pipes
and connections, and the castings for
the turbines are on the ground. The
power house, of heavy concrete and
brick masonry. will shortly be started,
and it is expected to begin delivering
power to Bingham and Mercur as early
as June 10, the final surveys having
been made and the poles distributed.