The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-23

entirely until the connection between
Ogden and this city is completed. The
rest of the power for the Salt Lake
service is being supplied by three emer-
gency steam plants, and the two Cot
tonwood stations. The steam plants are
giving an aggregate of 1000 horse-pow-
er, while the two Cottonwood plants.
which have water power, viii total 5000
horsepower.
Short 5000 Horsepower.
The Ogden plant furnished total of
5000 horsepower and the Bear river
plant 3.000 making a total OF 5000
horsepower from the two stations
which is lacking at the present time.
1t is thought by the officials of the COM
pany that the line between here and
Ogden will be in such shape as to per-
nit the transmission of power by this
afternoon.
The city lines were in bad shape. and
the Murray service did not go into COM
mission until 100 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoOn. The Center street line is not
making the full run vet, owing To the
fact that from Fourth North street two
blocks up to the top of the hill the poles.
telephone lines, trolley lines and trees
are a mass of tangled wires and debris
1t viii be some time before this line
is cleared, but its loss is not felt so
much as those would be i'm the down.
town districts The commercial serv-
ice is working in good order and is in
shape 10 be kept up to the mark.
Divided into Districts.
SeVenty-hve men were sent out over
the city under the direction of Superin-
tendent of City Service T. J. Yates. The
city circuits were divided into small
sections, and each section was taken
in turn and cleared. For blocks
throughout the city the tracks were
more or less INSTRUCTED with the debris
scattered by the storm, and as fast as
THIS was cleared UP and the proper con-
hectlons made, together with the wires
which were down and which were
picked up, that section was put into
commission and the next one taken i'm
itS turn. Owing to the fact that the
,eIepnone wires covered those of the
hght company, nothing could be done
until the wrecked telephone wires were
picked up by the linemen of the two
companies. 1t was due to this that the
Murray lines was held out for sucb q
length of time. :"
Service Almost Restored.
All of the city service lines are now i,
1un operation. except the Third street
and Center street divisions. which will
De cleared and put into working order by
Every line was in working order nv
TINS morning except those mentioned
ana the commercial district has been in
comparatively t3 good shape ever since Sum
Jay evening. AT the present time the
recording machine shows that the power
is holding up evenly. and the limited
amount of current is in a normal working
When asked as to how long If would he
pe1ore the connections throughout the
city would be made, the superintendent
OF the service stated that il would be i'm
posslole 10 tell exactly how long this win
take First the entire city district had
TO be cleared of the debris. so that the
car service could be put into operation.
The telephone companies will then have
to free their wires from the trees anS
broken branches. AS soon as this is
done the work OF connecting the resi-
oence districts will be begun and will be
put through to completion as rapidly as
the men can work. More men would be
used by the companies were it possible
TO secure them. but they are unavailable
the debris from the broken circuits. and
lt Will be probably a week before all the
connections are complete
AS to the time il would take to put the
entire system in its original shape and
efficiency, Manager Campbell would not
hazard a guess. Neither would he at
tempt to give any estimate of the dam
age sustained. cit is really a physical
impossibility. was his answer when
asked by The Herald for some opinion re-
gardlng the loss sustained 1--WE really
have no more idea than you have. How
could We? We have not covered our en-
tire district yet, and do not know what
condition some of the lines are in or how
difficult it will be to repair them. In
some cases we have to cut ont entire sec
tions and reconstruct them
Ogden Service Damaged.
The damage at Ogden TO the light and
car service is so serious that it will be
days before everything is in good work
ing order there The commercial circuit
and is now giving the usual service, but
beyond this it is impossible to say just
when the cars will be running again. 1t
is the intention of the company to push !
the work just as rapidly as possible. but |
men and time are the most needed |
things in the reconstruction Of the sys-
tenn.
Considerable speculation has been
aroused by the fact that the district in |
and around Kaysville and Centerville |
suffered so much more than the rest of !
the country. Several of those who were |
with the construction gang Ventured the |
opinion that the continued high winds |
there, while Salt Lake is free from them, |
is due to Weber canyon, which opens |
a. free sweep across the valley. This |
canyon has always been considered as |
one of the bad ones by the construction |
men, and when high winds are prevalent |
1t is this section which always gets it |
longest and hardest
To the south neither telephone nor cleo |
trio lines were disturbed by the wind; in |
fact there was no wind south of Provo !
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