The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-20
CHEAP POWER IN
MINING CAMPS
Gold Mountain and Beaver
County TO Be Supplied.
BIG PLANT FOR SEWER RIVER
FUNDS FOR THE s5cO,Ooo ENTER
PRISE SECURED.

With the filing of fhe articles Of in
corporation of the Standard Power COM
pauy yesterday an enterprise was for
mally launched which has for its chief OBJ
ject the furnishing OF cheap power and
light to the mining camns of Cold Noun
tain and Beaver county 1t is not an en-
terprise Of hasty. ill-advi;sed origin. but II
is the Outgrowth or four years of work
in the acquiremeut or ground on the water
front OF the Sewer rivel. ground which
comprises L5ig acras stretching from
Marysvale TO the Sewer river and tor
every acre of which tire company has
secured title from the government. The
preliminary work OF measuring the
stream. getting the fan and securing the
right 20 use the water for the purposes
specified IN the company's charter. have
already been attended 10 and, in addition
10 that the proposition has been fully
financed.
The new company is capitalized at ST.
WVv0h. the shares having a par value of
81 each. Willard +. Snyder is president;
Robert Forester. vice; president: J. -
Weimer. secretary and treasurer. These,
with Frank WOrthing and James Long
lr.. comprise the board of directors. j. -
Breckon the well known civil and min
ing engineer and surveyor. who has done
an the preliminary work. viii be in
charge OF the future field work and con-
StruCtiOu under the direction Of Robert
Forester and his assoc E8tes in the Ameri-
can Geological a Engineering company
with general offices i'm the Dooiv build
ing. this city Speaking OF the purposes
OF the Standard company yesterday Mr..
Forester said:
1T is the intention to begin work with
out delay and before the season is over
we shall have a plant Installed that Will
Dc capable OF generating between 400
and 1000 horsepower. 10 round out our
plans viii cost in the ueighbOrhood of
10000 and the extreme length OF our
distributing lines viii be from seventy
i've 10 eighty miles. tt is the company s
intention 10 first supply the Gold Noun
tain district, but before we are through
We snail supply the main mines of In
dian creek and the entire section around
Miliord aud Frisco and include, we hope.
Nlr- Newhouses properties and all other
operating companies.
The cost Of generating power by steam
costs from $50 to S25 per horsepower per
month aud. as against that we propose
10 furnish our patrons with first class
service at q rate not exceeding s. per
horsepower. BY so doing we hope to
make 10 possible for manv properties TO
operate at profit which otherwise would
be compelled TO remain idle. Our engin-
GERS VIII be I'm the field next week and I
n soon as the American cOmpauy's en-
sinecrs have prepared the plans and es-
viii begin"
10 was nearly four years ago that
Messrs. Snyder and Weimer first began
looking into the proposition which has
finally eliminated in the Orga nization OF !
the standard company and the raising /
OF the funds TO carry out the enterprise I
and. while nothing has been said about /
IT. they nave worked continuously since /
10 place the proposition on Its feet. OBJ |
stacles inuumerable have been met and /
successfully overcome and when the cor /
porate articles were filed yesterday the I
last stumbling stone to success had been |
swept aside. condiuon or affairs for |
which Mr. Forester has been I'm no small |
degree responsible.
From row on all viii be hustle and I
hustle and by this time next year the 4
company expects to have been the direct 4
means OF giving mining I'm the districts I
~r7nufionrd fnn r1fucr a hOx-n a al hav
which they have been craving-cheap 1
power