Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-09
ShOShone Falls Power and Light
Ing Company Backed by Prom
inent Salt LakerS.
CAPITALIZED AT $4,000,
Some Doubts Expressed Locally Wheth'
or Government Will Allow the
Water to be Used,

An electric power enterprise that ~
classed as one Of the greatest IN the
country is about TO be launched In Ida
no, with several Salt Lakers heavily In
tciested. Articles Of Incorporation are
on the way to Boise for the Shoshono
Fails Power q Lighting company. 1t Is
becked by DcDonald & Mccoy Of CHI
cago and their associates are Gov.
Aaron 4, Bliss Of Michigan, +. Il, Cali
vim, Archibald Miner and Frank Knox
Of this city, I. b. Perrine Of Blue Lakes,
Ida, and Judge Samuel Hughes Of
Boise.
The new corporation is capitalized at
$2jO0O00, with a bond issue Of equal
amount. All the stock and half the
bonds are subscribed. IL is the purpose
TO build three power plants ON the
Snake river. which Will have. combined
from $4,000 to 10000 horsepower These
plants will be located at Augur Fails
Twin Falls and Shoshone Falls. The
Shoshone plant Is already under way
and machinery Is being ordered, II
will generate 1000 horsepower, TO be
transmitted 10 the Wood River region
Salt Lake and intermediate points. II
Is proposed by the promoters to trans
init 5000 horsepower to this city
providing 1t can be placed,
The proposition has been under way
In different forms for the past five
years ana repeated conferences have
been held with the Salt Lake Railway
and Power people regarding the using
Of additional power from the Snake
river project Nothing definite. how
ever has been closed up, as the Difficult
ties connected with long transmission
and the risk OF breakdowns along the
lines Of the one which threw the city
into darkness last night for q min
utes have been taken into considera-
ton Then, too, according TO the state
ment made recently by the government
Irrigation engineer Mr.. Newell no pow
er projects on the Snake river which
would IN any way interfere with the ir-
rigation In Idaho would be permitted.
In this connection Robert y. Hay
ward electrical engineer for the Utah
Light q Railway company, this morn
Ing made the statement that when the
irwin Falls irrigation project was fairly
launched and the 3.i00 second feet OF
water taken out for the big canal and
laterals that there would not be any
water going over Shoshone Falls and
that the Niagara OF the West would
be thing OF the past" Water for Ir-
ilgatlon,' he declared. zig Of more vital
Importance to Idaho than mower
plants ana statistics furnished by for.
mer state Engineer Ross demonstrated
that If all the flood waters OF the Snake
river We're stored, Idaho would then
have only half enough TO Irrigate the
lands within her borders that are avail.
able"
The promoters however are confident
that they have a good thing. Mr. Cal.
Vim, one Of the gentlemen Interested i'm
the huge undertaking, was also seen
this morning and asked whether II was
the purpose OF the company To provide
power for the Oregon Short Line shops
at Pocatello and elsewhere, IN addition
70 lighting and electric traction lines
He stated that the company was a pri-
Vate concern and was In no wise con-
nected with the oregon Short Line.
Just whore the company proposed to
transmit the power generated he was
not at this time In a position TO state.
!, b, Perrin Of Hlue Lakes was the
originator Of the power scheme and he
has finally succeeded In his long efforts
TO finance the project Mr.. Perrlne il
was who figured out the gigantic Twin
Falls irrigation project, now being
pushed to completion