The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-08
UTAH COPPER'S
POWER PLANT
Line From Garfield to Mill at
Bingham Is Placed in
Commission.
CUTS OUT COST OF STEAM
MINE WILL USE SAME POWER
WITHIN MONTH.
CUTS OUT COST OF STEAM

Yesterday morning, with every man at
MS post to see that nothing went wrong
the electrical engineers of the Utah Cop
per company closed the switches and sent
4o,OO volts of electric Juice" scudding
over the wires and through the transform
erS that Intervene between the commands
magnificent power plant at Garfield and
Inc IOOO-ton milling plant at Bingham
Without a stop, without a change of a
plug or wire from the position it occu-
PED when the current was turned on. the
motors in the big mill took up their task
one after another and when General Man
9ger d. G. lacking was last in cOmmuni-
cation with the plants during the after
noon, over one-third of the Bingham mill
was operating under electric power while
everything indicated that the change from
steam TO electricity throughout the works
would be completed before the end of the
present week
But that is not all that is being done
IN the way of reducing costs of operation
through the use of electrical energy sup
piled by the company's own generating
station. Within the next two or three
weeks the power line will be completed
to the company'5 mines and the big com
pressor plant and other machinery that
is already installed will be harnessed up
and made to do the work that is now be-
ing accomplished through the use of COM
pressed air that is being supplied by the
United States company from its plant
This change In supplying the power to
run the mill at Bingham. Mr.. Jackling
states, viii be a most important factor in
the economic operation of the Bingham
works and will place the mill at that
point more nearly on an equal footing
with the great works at Garfield than
could have been expected from the use of
steam power from a plant that was really
secondhand when it was installed. The
heavy expense thus cut cut will reduce
the actual cost of making copper by the
company to a point not far removed from
the minimum record and place 1t in prime
condition for the great career ahead of it..
The Utah Copper companys power plant
at Garfield is one of the finest in the
state. When all of the machinery and
equipment is placed and it is all there.
the works will be able TO generate 1900
horsepower One-half Of the plant is row
in commission and the 'other half viii he
ready to move long before II is needed.
Everything about the works is right up
to its efficiency and reliability has been
overlooked in the assembling of the ma
with which it is equipped. The
plant is the pride of the management and
now that it Is being utilized to cover the
entire field of the cOmpany's mammoth
operations there is great rejoicing in the
official household.
The lire from the works to Bingham is
carried over steel towers firmly bedded
and placed to last forever, whiie the cur
rent is carried through standard copper
wire OF a size and strength to meet every
requirement. The power plant itself IS
designed and equipped in manner which
ALWAYS leaves one-third of ii in reserve,
and Manager JaclIling figures that moth
ing can happen that would force a close
down.