The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-10
IMMENSE POWER
COMPANY FORMED
Will Spend Not Less Than 100000
at Once.
HELP CITY WATER SUPPLY
RESERVOIR WILL BE BUILT IN
BIG COTTONWOOD.
HELP CITY WATER SUPPLY

n URING the next few days the Inter
ii mountain Power company, capital
lied for $500. 900. with 150,00i
shares of the par value of $40 each
Will file its articles of Incorporation.
Within the next ten months this
company. which has been completely
financed by some of the wealthiest in
stitutions and individuals in the state
of Ohio. viii spend not less than $500,
900 in the construction of power plants
pole lines, reservoirs, etc, and by the
first Of January next the company vii
make good the requirements of It's
franchises by having in operation the
first plant of the four it intends to
build
This in brief, was the Information
released by J. J. Chambers, the Ohio
promoter and engineer. who has beer
working on the proposition for the last
year and a half, on his return to head
quarters in this city yesterday morn
ing. He also added that his company
had no thought of cOnfin!ng its efforts
10 the rounding out of the enterprise
as outlined, but that it would continue
to enlarge its field as long as there
was an opportunity to develop cheap
power anywhere in this region. The
fact was recognized, he said, that Utah
was destined to grow at a tremendous
pace and that all the electric power
that could be generated during the
next ten years would find ready mar
ket.
Sees Great Future.
This valley is destined. within the
next few years, TO become the greatest
smelling center in the mining world, -
concluded Mr.. Chambers in closing a
statement concerning what the future
had in store. The population will
grow until all the waste places are
covered with homes of thriving people
and manufactures of many kinds will
be established here"
To realize these things. Mr.. Cham
bers said it was only necessary 10
visit the great commercial and manu-
featuring cities Of the east and listen
to the arguments that are constantly
made concerning the opportunities that
the west has 10 offer On account OF
its geographical position and the pres
ent and prospective railroad facilities
that this city and state can and viii
offer all eyes are being turned i'm this
direction. His company, he declared.
had been substantial evidence of what
was to come when il had laid before il
a statement showing that the 5000
horsepower that its initial plants would
develop had already been practically
contracted for.
Power From Cottonwoods.
For the past year ana a half Mr..
Chambers has been quietly at work ac-
rio "a
Cottonwood canyons, and for the last
two months his engineers have been
making surveys and getting everything
in readiness for the work of Construc-
ton that will begin in earnest next
week and which was inaugurated on
the first of the present month by the
crew engaged in building the pole lines.
In addition to this, Mr. Chambers. dur
ing the two months he has been in the
east has arranged for all the machin-
cry and equipment that is TO enter into
plants and their accessories, and the
moment detailed drawings are sub
mitted the firms supplying them, ship
ments win begin to come. Everything
about the undertaking has been figured
on a basis OF peTmanency and worth,
and when the various plants are COM
pleted they viii represent the best that
money and abiity can provide. Every
thing viii be strictly up-tO-date, While
every precaution has been taken by the
engineers TO insure a perfect service
and all Mr. Chambers says, at a cost
far below what steam generated power
usually costs.
Will Supply Mining Towns.
The plants which thek company is
now preparing to install Will supply,
in large units. present needs of some
Of the nearby mining towns and smell
ter centers, while il is the intention
also to supply light 10 some of the
towns of this valley outside of Salt
Lake. Franchises have been secured
for the running of pole lines across the
valley to Bingham and other places.
and TO Alta, Big Cottonwood and Park
City on the east and southeast Of this
city.
The first of the three stations that
viii derive their energy from water is
to be located at the mouth o. the south
fork of Little Cottonwood canyon, Il
short distance south from the power
plant Of the Columbus Consolidated
Mining company. Il will be of 500
lzilowatt capacity and is TO be in op-
Grafton by the first of The coming year.
4 sixteen-inch pipe line 5000 feet long
will be placed here to convey the water
under a head of $50 feet 10 the gener-
ating plant Pole lines will be con-
from there to Alta and over
the divide at the Kennebec mine to Big
Cottonwood and on to Park City.
After leaving the plant at this point
the water will be returned TO its nat
ural channel and farther down the
stream will be diverted TO a thirty
inch wooden stave pipe. through which
il will be carried for 5000 feet and
then be dropped through 5000 feet of
steel pine to station No. under a head
Of $50 feet and utilized i'm the develop
ment of 900 kilowatts Of electric
energy. This station viii be located
Just above Wasatch at the mouth of
The canyon.
Plant at Big Cottonwood.
The Big Cottonwood plant viii de-
yeiop approximately 1000 kiOwatts of
electric Juice" and the plans for It's
call for a great deal of
york and the expenditure of large sums
If money At a point in the canyon
known as Mill ID. the company has
ocated a reservoir site and TO impound
he water a dam is to be constructed
With a heavy concrete core 500 feet
ong and eighty feet high I'm the mid
lie. This reservoir is designed TO hold
water in the dryest portion of
he season to meet the requirements
If the company for approximately
sixty days, and Mr.. Chambers states
hat right here is where the other
power companies. the farmers and Salt
lake City win reap the benefit of his
work without cost to them. |
he figures that the impounding of
water I'm the flush season will add not |
ess than so per cent TO the flow dur |
ng the dry period, as his company will |
'equire an even pressure at all times.
viii Increase Later.
The company's plant in this canyon |
viii be located below the Maxfield |
nine and the water viii be conveyed to !
[ through $1,000 feet OF wood stave