The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-19
UNITED GAS IMPROVEMENT
THE U. G. r. COMPANY CONFIRM MS
Il RECENT REPORT.

And the Connecticut Light nnd Power
Company Is Developing Plans Eor
| building Big Dam and Reservoir ut
| Zoar Bridge.
A dispatch from Philadelphia last
night says:
Omitted Gas Improvement company
| officials confirm the story that the conf
pany has acquired large interest in
the Norwalk (Connl Tramway compa-
ny and state that the company has also
secured the Derby Street Railway COM
pany These two lines, together with
several others in and around Bridge
port, Conn, purchased early in the year
by the company, will be merged into
practically one system connecting
Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven,
which system will be controlled and OPP
Grated by the United Gas Improvement
company"
Another report having the semblance
of authority says that the United Gas
Improvement tOIIlJolly Will llibtNC q Nv
termined effort to establish an electric
light plant in Bridgeport and one in
New Haven at as early a date as pos
sible. OF course, the chief fight will
take place in the Legislature if the effort
talked Of is pushed.
The United Gas Improvement compa-
ny now controls the Bridgeport Trac-
ton company, and is in possession Of an
immense electrical plant which is capa-
BILE of generating sufficient lighting
power to supply both Bridgeport and
surrounding towns. 1t is proposed by
the trust to ask the legislature next
year for franchise to operate an cleo
trio lighting plant in Bridgeport and to
connect it by wires to this city and
light New Haven as well, also Milford,
Shelton, Birmingham, Ansonia and Der
by, and ultimately to control the electric
lighting of all the towns in the Nauga-
tuck valley from Stratford to Winsted.
The company controls the charter of
the Housatonic Power company, the
charter of which gives the company
permission to construct big reservoir
on the Housatonic and operate by the
water power thus secured an immense
SleclElC power ana llSIl pant.
President James English of the Unit
ed Illuminating company Of this city
said last evening regarding the above
report that he knew nothing about the
matter further than the newspaper talk
on the subject He said, however, that
nobody here was lying awake nights
over the matter, and that the United
Gas Improvement company had lots to
do before 1t could get within touch even
of the New Haven end of such a project
as the one talked about.
A representative of the Connecticut \
Light and Power company, who was
interviewed last night by a Journal and
Courier reporter, said, in regard to the
above mentioned report, that the Con-
necticut Light and Power company was
actually and positively at work devel-
oping plans preparatory to establishing
a big dam and reservoir at Zoar Bridge, !
on the Housatonc river, fourteen miles
from New Haven, and to operate by
the great supply of power they could /
thus secure an immense electric power
plant by which they could transmit /
light and power in large quantity, the
selling the same wherever
they could market it. The company
now owns plants in Waterbury, Anso- /
MIA and Bridgeport; and would push .
forward to completion, at an early day,
the establishment of the dam and res
ervoir at Zoar Bridge. The United |
Gas Improvement company stands be-
hind and backs up this project of A. M ,
Young and his associates of the Con-
necticut Light and Power company