The Delta independent., 1902-05-30
GREAT POWER PLANT
PROJECTED IN PLATTE CANON.
General Hale Said to Be in the East
to Place Contraots-Will Furnish
Vast Power for Denver Manufae-
turers-Distributing Plant and
Wires to Cost S7oo, 900.

Denver. May 22.-The Post pub.
fishes the following statement IN re-
gard TO the proposed great reservoir
and electric power plant which. II COM
pletcd. Will 20 far TO make Denver a
great manufacturing center:
Preliminary estimates OF the cost of
the Denver Power and Irrigation Com
pany's extensive plant TO be construct
ed in Platte canon, ON thc south fork
of the Platte river. have been made by
Gen. Irving Hale. and were submitted
TO the company Saturday evening.
General Hale, who is considered nn
authority on electric power plants in
the mountains, left Denver yesterday
for the East, and he is said to have
carried with him the contracts for the
electric and other machinery and sub
sidlary appurtenanccs for the big en-
terprise. 10 submit to the General Flee
iric people for review, approval and
signature.
These contracts with the General
Electric Company alone are said TO ag-
gregat. 100000. In addition. Sso.ooo
more is said TO be the estimate made
by General Hnie for equipment that
can be and win b. purchased by con
tract in Denver. These amounts only
partly cover the machinery and epuip-
ment for the mammoth power plant
projected.
The total cost of the entire system
complete and ready for operation Will
be about S3.oooUc; complete machin-
cry and appurtenanccs In the geDcrIt-
Ing power house at Platte canon, to-
gcthcr with the receiving and distrib-
uting plant near Petersburg, south OF
Denver, Including twenty-cight miles
OF large transmitting wires. which Will
cost about 100000 alone. according to
President james T.. Rhodes of the
Denver Power and Irrigation Com
pany.
II is expected to commence the con
structlon of this big electric power sys-
TEN by June LIST. and 10 push II
through TO rapid completion by the
early fall. II possible, according TO
pp%iicht Rhodes. The plans OF the
company have suffered delay through
litigation growing out OF conlcmna-
tory proceeding TO secure right OF
way from Platte canon to Denver.
This trouble was practically settled.
however, by the supreme Court IA,
February In flvo- OF the power com
pany. and since the decision the COM
pnny has been quietly securing Its
son and Arnpahoc counties by quo
warrnnto proceedings and. by purchase
q; land required to carry out the plans.
The generating power house Will be
n double brick and stone structure 90
MOO feet In Dimensions. Ii Will be
built at the mouth OF the canon, Just
north OF Nighthawk, small town on
the halfnnishcd spur of the Colorado
& Southern road. The South Fork of
the Plnttc river will bc damned at
this point. Another dam Will be con-
structed south and near Dunaway,
forming large reservoir and storing
up water sufficient TO operate the gen
ernting plant at that point. The elec-
trIc power will he transmitted twenty
eight miles north along the Platte riv-
or to n point near Petersburg. which IL
five miles south OF Denver. The COM
pnny has already secured land at the
location In question. on which to build
n lnrgc structure to receive the power
md distribute II throughout Denver
for commercial purposes. Some OF the
largest Industrial plants operating In
and about Denver have. II is under
stood, decided to procure power from
this mammoth plant. Others which are
contemplated nrc now figuring with
the company for the use of power.
President Rhodes said to-day that
the enterprise was certainty ana Will
be built this year. AS to the capital,
hc said there was not the lenst question
about II and that that stage OF the
enterprise hnd long since passed. Tho
matter of transmitting electric power
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