The Colorado statesman., 1906-06-30
POWER COMPANY
WILL BUILD LARGE PLANTS IN
NORTHERN COLORADO.
TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY
Will Operate in Many Towns-con-
trolls Water Power and Coal Lands
lis to Furnish Light and Supply
Power for All Kinds of Uses.


Denver.-Work, is progressing in
preparation for the installation of the
great electrical power plant of the
Northern Power Company, and indica-
tions are that it is going to be much
larger affair that even l.. w. Henry,
its protector, anticipated
w. w. Churchill, vice president, and
w. S. Lyford, chief engineer of the
Westinghouse company of New York,
have been in the city and left few
days since for the East. They took
with them the plans for the power
plant that is to be erected at Lafayette
and for the transmission lines. w. A.
McClurg and w. NJ. Riley, construc-
tion and transmission engineers, who
came West with them, have remained
in the state and are working out the
details, such as locating the lines. The
management has decided to embrace
Fort Lupton, Brighton and Platteville
in the sections to be supplied with
power, which were not in the original
plans. This is the company which re-
Gently bought the Boulder and Chey-
enne power plants.
1t is hoped to have the plant in
stalled by the 1st of February, but it
cradle hard work. A contract has re-
Gently been signed with the United
Power and Light Company at George
town to supply it with extra power
This company has the electric bust
ness in Gilpin county pretty well in
hand and manufactures about 1900
horsepower, but it can utilize more
| and some 1000 horsepower will be
| wholesaled and distributed There
will be connection with the Northern
| Power Company's feed lines at a point
| in Boulder county.
The Northern Power Company has
made secure its titles to more than
| 5000 acres of coal land in the vicin-
| ity of Lafayette, where the power
| house will be located. 1t has also Sc
| cured itself an abundant water supply
| by the purchase of Miller lake and an
other body of water of nearly the
same size. In addition artesian wells
will be sunk to make it certainty
that there will be sufficient.
Mr.. Henry says the possibilities for
| the use of power in agriculture in the
northern district are immense and
that the company is preparing to irri-
| gate number of tracts of land by
pumping. Between Evans and Fort
lIuDlOn lHtTe is d COuSlueTdUle unueT-
| flow of water, which has not changed
| in many years, but what is needed is
some cheap power to raise it from the
| wells and distribute it on the land.
| This the power company can do
| cheaply. In the vicinity of Barr lake
| and also near Union reservoir close
to Longmont, are large tracts of land
that can be irrigated as soon as the
water can be DumDed over the soil
| 1t is expected to bring G,000 acres into
cultivation near Barr lake in this way
| All of this kind of pumping will be
| done early mornings.
Mr.. Henry has no doubt concerning
the future of northern Colorado and
| Denver, which he thinks will be
brought into closer relations in a few
years by means of electric lines. The
| land is going to be cut up into small
| farms and intensely cultivated, and
| there will be large population.