The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-15

City. Robinson and many other towns
and mining camps. 1t also sells power
in Salt Lake.
Since the day the Telluride company
took the power plant of the Gold King
mine and started upon a new enter
prise, no dividends have been declared
to stockholders. All of the profits of
the company have been invested In
new plants and in wiG sning its scope
of usefulness
In 1903, to carry out certain plans of
Improvement. the holdings of the COM
pany were mortgaged for $4,000 600. In
1907 a syndicate was formed OF the
chief stockholders to underwrite.a S1O.-
600 900 bond issue This placed the
company in a position to retire the
old s.. 800. 900 bonds and provide for the
new Utah. Idaho and Colorado work.
The transmission lines of the COM
pany. pole lines ana tower lines are
said 20 have cost 81, 400O 900.
The officers of the Telluride cOmpa-
ny are: James Campbell of st. Louis,
president; H. r. Newcomb of Cleve-
land. o., treasurer, and L. L. Num-,
general manager.
There are many wonders at the
Grace plant. 1t has a 12,500-hOrse
power water wheel, which has no du-
plicate anywhere else in the world ex-
cept at Niagara.
Bear River CircIing Course.
But more wonderful than the me-
chanical marvels are the works of ma
ture which make this great plant pos
sible. Bear river, in making It's way
TO Great Salt lake, flows in almost
complete circle around Bear lake and
North lake. At Dungle, Ida, an inlet
canal has been built to carry the food
waters of the river into the lakes. The
canal is twenty feet wide and six feet
deep, and has a fall of sixty feet in
six miles, or ten feet TO the mile
The outlet canal was built thirty
miles above Grace. Ida, where the big
plant stands The outlet is 100 feet
wide and six feet deep.
To make it possible 10 store the wa
ter from the Bear rived watershed
dams have been built wherever there
was danger that the water would over
flow the banks of the lakes and es-
cape.
In the great work of carrying on the
enterprises of the company many en-
gineers are needed, who are equipped
with practical, useful knowledge of the
tasks upon which they are to be SET
To keep the ranks of his assistants
flied, Mr.. Num- has established a
school for young engineers at Provo.
It is called the Telluride Institute The
buildings used have cost the company
$3.50 O00 and forty young engineers are
under training there all the time. They
go there from the technical schools to
be brushed Up for the real work that
is before them.
Power for Newhouse Mines.
The Beaver River Power company is
an OffshOot of the Telluride company
1t has a $750,000 plant completed at
Lake Puffer, in Beaver county, twelve
miles from Beaver City. Its original
purpose was to furnish power to the
Newhouse mines, but its scope has
been enlarged so as to take in all the
mines and all the industries of south
western Utah that are in need of
power. 1t furnished 1,000-hOrse power
to the Cactus mines; supplies power
to the Indian Queen mine: lights the
town of Milford and does a great
many other things that are both use
full and profitable
Before coming to the west L. l.
Num- and p n. Num- were already
famous for their work at Niagara.
and the success of the Telluride com
pany was due to their expert knowl-
edge of the vast possibilities of the
western streams in the hands of ca
pable men.
Rights of Farmers First.
In Harvesting the water of Utah and
Idaho the Telluride company has had
10 be mindful of one very important
thing: the rights of the farmers to
the water for the purpose of irrigation.
For this reason costly works have been
built so that the power company can
use the water without depriving the.
farmers of a drop that formerly went
TO the roots of growing crops
The expedients adopted to avoid
clashing with the owners of agricul-