Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-03-23
A.BIG POWER PLANT
Telluride Company to Utilize Flood
Waters Of Pear River.
WILL COST OVER ss,9Oc,9co
Waters to be Diverted into Mud Lake
and by Canal Again Releasel into
Bear River, Near Montpelier.

date gives the following account Of
the exte ,sive project tnat is now \
under way by the Telluride Power /
company, the completion o. which ,
will mean much to Bear Lake coun
tv, as we'll as to those sections OF ,
Idaho and Utah, along which the
power line will pass:
"In April, 1902, four years ago,
L, L. Mum of the Telluride Power
company made All appropriation OF
the flood waters of Bear river. Later
the government lnt"rvened and
made an appropriation. A long de-
lay occurred, pending government
investigation as to othe feasibility OF
the project as an irrigation scheme,
the object Of the government being
to furnish waters to settlers, but
not contemplating any other use OF
the water.
SAT that time the government
engineers thought there were about
10000 acres that might be re-
claimed. In the meantime private
companies built canals to supply so
much Of the land that only about
10000 acres remained, and the gov
ernment finally permitted its claim
to lapse on the theory that It could
-fh5t afford to go to SO much expense
for SO small an area of land.
"Again, the act Of 1907 seems TO
contemplate thai government ex-
pen9itures shall be made for lrriga-
tion enterprises only where private
capital would not care to engage.
ssThe amount OF flood water ap-
propriated near Dingle, Idaho, was
1900 second feet, TO be diverted by
canal into North and Bear lakes,
approximately 10000, 600 cubic feet
OF ab.ut 500, 900 acre feet. This u
10 be released into Bear river proper
near Montpelier, Ida and conduct
ed down the channel of the Bea
river to point of use at Grace
Idl., which is some ten miles south
west Of Soda Springs, under a hea
of over 500 feet.
"The machinery and all apparatus
generators, exciters, transformers
water wneels and all equipment ha
already been ordered for the fir,
two units of about ll00-horse powt
each. These will be released ;
Grace, Ida., and permitted to flo
down Bear river.
"The whole water appropriate
woaid supply $4,000 horse powe
Twenty thousand will be util:z,
this year.
s'The point of generation Is abo
forty-fve miles from Logan. Fro
Logan to this city the wires are Of
capacity to bring 90, 900 horse-pow
in addition to wha. they alrea
carry, and it is the thought of N
Mum that if all goes we'll, he "
be able to deliver this 20, 900 hor
power in this city by the first day
December of this year.
sIt must be understood that Il
water which comes in flood in /
Nspring will be impounded IN the
lakes mentioned above and permit
to flow all the year round instead
coming IN rush in the spring.
"The object of the company II
supply southern Idaho and north
+. Utah Witn power at greatly redu
rates, AID as power does not abs
water, but merely makes use of i
it runs over its wheels. no hards
= can be worked in any direction.
This. would have been. n
three years ago except that the .
ernment had in contemplation
making of great irrigation sch
out of it, but investigation
shown that of the original land
might haye been irrigated by