Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-05-30
GREAT POWER PLANT
PROJECTED IN PLATTE CANON.
General Hale Said to Be In the East
to Place consraets-wiii Furnish
Vast Power for Denver Manufae-
turers-oissributina Plant anl
MIrea 10 Cost 500 600.

turerS-Otstrtbutira PIsnt N
Wires to Cost 100000.
Denver. May oa-Thc Pos, pub
fishes the following statement III re.
gard To the proposed great reservoir
and electric power plant which. II com.
plctcti. Will go 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 bc construct
cd In Platte canon. ON the south fork
of the Platte river. have bccn made by
Gen. Irving Hale. and were submitted
to the company Saturday evening.
General Hale. who Is considered nm
authority on electric power plants In
the mountains, left Denver yesterday
for the East, and he Is sail TO have
carried with him the contracts for the
electric and other machinery and sub
sidiary appurtcnanccs for the big en-
tcrprisc. 10 submit 10 the General Elcc.
tric people for review. approval and
signature.
These contracts with the General
Electric Company alone are said to ng-
grcgatc $4,000. In addition. $4,000
more is said to be the estimate made
by General Hale for equipment that
can bc and will be purchased by con-
tract In Denver. These amounts only
partly cover the machinery and equip
ment for the mammoth power plant
projected.
The total cost OF tho entire system
complete and ready for operation will
be about S3.opD.OCD: complete mnchin-
cry aud appurtenanccs In the Ecncrnt-
ing power house at Platte canon, to-
gcthcr with the receiving and distrib-
uting plant near Petersburg. south OF
Denver. including twcnty-cight miles
OF large transmitting wires. which will
cost about 100000 alone. according to
President James l., Rhodes OF the
Denver Power and Irrigation Com
pany.
1t Is expected to commence the con-
struc,Ion of this big electric power sys-
TEN by June 1st, and TO push IL
through TO rapid completion by the
early fall. II possible. according to
pr,siicht Rhodes. The plans OF the
company have suffered delay through
litigation growing out OF condemna-
tory proceeding to secure right of
way from Platte canon to Denver.
This trouble was practically settled.
however. by the Supreme Court II,
February in favo- of the power com
pany. and since the decision the COM
pany has been quietly securing its
right OF way through Douglas, Jeffer-
son and ArapahOc counties by quo
warrnnto proceedings and by purchase
of land required TO carry out the plans.
The generating power hothsc will be
n double brick and stone structure GO
x2O0 feet in dimensions. IL will be
built at the mouth Of the canon, jus;
north OF Nighthawk. small town on
the half-iinished spur OF the Colorado
& Southern road. The South Fork of
the Platte river will he 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
Grating plant at that point The elcc.
tric power will be transmitted twenty.
eight miles north along the Platte riv-
.er TO point near Petersburg, which is
five miles south OF Denver. The com.
pany has already secured land Mt the
location In question, on which to build
large structure to receive the power
and distribute 1t 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 are now figuring will
the company for the use of power.
President Rhodes said to-day that
the enterprise was certainty and will
be built this year. AS to the capital
he said there was not the least question
about 1t and that that stage of the
enterprise had long since passed. The
matter OF transmitting electric power
twenty-cight miles was easy. accord.
ing to him, citing that in San Francis
co and Niagara electricity was trans.
mitted as much as 200 miles without
appreciable loss.