Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-15


own community with great advantage.
Among tn first things noticeable lu
utGh o. the utilization " mountain
streams for thc very economical gene
Grafton % electricity FOR power and
lighting purposes. TIE Pioneer Eica-
trlc Power company. with a capital 0f
two million dollars. mostly fr1m
PruVidlroa. r. H., has erected "a plaht
on stream above ogden. with the
generating plant In ogden. The
stream ltsalf has % minimum How or
100 cubic tcct " water per second The
plant In the canyon with 4 capacity OF
10000 hydraulic Morse power. clnslsts
IN tlklng The water out Of the stream
by means Of n pipe line. Gih miles 1f
which. with a total fan OF iiG feet. con-
ducis the water 10 the plant IN ogden.
which consists 0f i've water VIII els.
each ~ 1000 hnrsr power, each wheel
bUug connected with an electric gru-
orator 1f I 900 horse power capacity
This power Dr. mostly transmitted 20
Salt Lake city. thirty-Hovsu mii,s disc
tint. whore % o. supplied to smaller
consumers at $40 per horse power per
amum. or about 0nr.hnif thH cost nf
coal ANA str1 lower rates being made
90 larger consumers The leading con.
aumer IN Snlt Lake City IL the electric
light plant. which uses 1000 horse
prwcr. The Pioneer Electric Power
Plant has now been In most suecrsFful
operation Tor nlno months. nli having
lost one minute NJ time mr. cost ono
cent for repairs. The power can D.,
and storing surplus water. Tho lnevit-
able tendency of ,hla vast supply 1i
cheip power lr tp Increase local manu-
featuring
TWO OTHER PLANTS.
"on the Blg Cottonwood. In canyon
near salt Lake Ciiy. thotc are two
uihtr plants utilizing q mIuntlln
stream flr ih' generation ~ Electricity
f1r power and lighting. From these
two pluun and the one at OGDEN the
cnt|r' street car system N salt Lake
CITY Is operated. and the whole city
llRhtod.
what occurs TO q Denver man on
Egc.nE these Utah plants, Ia that 'ho
Platte tver, between tn point whore
% ifsuos mum the South Park aud the
/ point whore 70 Issues ON the plain ut
Platte Canyon n distance of nftyaFlV
miles, has fall or nearly d.OlO foot.
ana that 70 ls, therefore, possible 90 uFa
the Pltitc almost indefinitely flr the
generation % electrical power BY
means NJ dams. nlpg lines ana water
wh0olH, lt large number lf cnuffru-
tive points. ih0 wat.g being .hHrHiv
urrl over ana over again. o. uarssfurv.
In view of Tho successful utilization
ut thp streams ot Utah. 10 Dr. only q
matter uf time and capital when NOT
merely the entire street car and riUu-
the lighting Hyatpma uf Denver viii %.
operated from electric generating
plants located In Platte canyon. hut
surplus power VIII hH furnished 100 the
manufacturing establishments 10 the
city. at much less than tn present
cost uf coal ana steam.
Another subject on which Colorado
can wei follow the lead NJ ttth. ia
thu beet sugar Industry I had very
pleasant interview with r. Il. Cuilnr.
tho managing director of tho IUhi
beet sugar factory. ana was informed
hy him that the worlds supply "
sugar o. eight million tons per anuum
~ which nearly thrUn.fuurth % pro-
durcd FRONT sugar beet and th. tee
maludrr from sugar cane, or thu boot
SUGAR Germany produced last year a
fraction under two million tons The
consumption Of sugar IN the United
States last year was more than two
million tons. or that amount o. dollars
ana cents. we imported nearly no
million dollars worth We made b.
tween 10000 ana 10000 tons ~ beet
sugar In the United staicH last year II
would take "a capital ~ 90 least hii.
lion and hllf nf dollars e. crrct
factories In tho United States sufficient
a. supply the sugar cunHumptlon NJ
this country.
UTAH SUGAR Production.
"Thc utah sugar company Of Lshi
has been ~ operation seven years. ThT