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

the Provo river. nine miles above Pro-
Vo. They called [ Nunn's plant be-
cause il was Nunns idea that has
caused this wonderful flow of prosper
ity 10 the men who han begun with
merely the hope of taking the ore from
the Gold King mine.
1t was a %, horsepower plant, I'M
der a 125-fOOt head.
Here the company constructed the
first 40,000-vOit transmission line ever
put in use in the world. This was used
10 transmit power to Joseph Delamar's
Golden Gate mill at Mercur, now owned
by the Mercur Consolidated Mining
company, of which John Dern is pres
. ident.
Then a line was extended 10 Eureka,
Juab county, and still another line was
strung around the south end of Utah
lake TO connect Eureka and Mercur.
In this work another original idea
was adopted, when aluminium wire was
used. The solid aluminium wire had a
tendency to crystalline, and experiments
were made which resulted In the sub
sututiOn of the seven-strand cable for
/ the solid wire.
/ Today the company has 80 miles OF
aluminium wire in use, divided into 40
900, $4,000 and S00OO-volt lines There
are 100 miles of wire in Idaho con-
Meeting with the system.
More Power Needed.
In 1901 a second plant was needed.
The site chosen was on the Logan
river, in Cache county, three and a
half miles from the city of Logan.
ninety miles from Salt Lake and 135
miles from the first plant. 1t is a %, 900
| horse power plant, connecting with the
Provo plant by way of Ogden, Salt
Lake and Lehi, with branches to
! Bingham and other points.
Two years later, in 1903, a third
plant was needed. This was called
/ the Olmsted plant, and was built on
the Provo river, six miles above Pro-
Vo- Water was carried TO the plant
/ through a tunnel. 2400 feet long.
which pierced a mountain ridge This
enabled the company to use all the
water Of the river at net head of
545 feet, making available at the
switchboard 12,500-hOrse power.
The fourth plant was completed in
1906. It was built on Battle creek.
| Utah county, two miles from Pleasant
/ Grove. 1t is a 40O0-horse power regu-
lating plant, with a net head of 1854
Feet the second highest I'm the United
/ states. II is equipped with a needle
! nozzle, impulse type of water wheel
installation, with an equalizing reser-
/ voir at the intake.
! In 1907 the fifth plant was acquired
/ by purchase. This was the Jordan
NaTToWs power plant, one on which
| 100000 had been spent by the build
ers. 1t was bought at a receivers sale
/ for $4,000 by w. s. Mccormick and
| by him decided to the Telluride com
pany. II is situated on Jordan river.
/ between Utah lake and Salt lake, and
| has about 1.200-hOrse power.
Grace Another Niagara.
Tie same year the greatest of all the
/ Undertakings OF the company was be-
/ gun in the building of the Grace
| idaho plant on Bear river, twelve
miles west of Soda Springs. This is
| the greatest development Of hydraulic
power between the Mississippi and the
| California rivers. 1t is said to be the
greatest, with the exception of Ma
/ CARA falls in the world In the buiId-
| ing or this plant steel pipe line five
| and half miles long, with pipes eight
4 feet in diameter, has been Constructed
| The cost of the pipe alone was $3.50 OOO
The plant utilities the natural flow
of Bear river and the water stored in
Bear and North lakes, under a net
/ mead or $40 feet. The station building
1 - OCS- AACu ADl cusouU-nOfSe. power. Tho
hTst pipe line, now installed furnished
| 20,OOO-horse power. Duplicate pIna
lines Will be built as the demand for
I power increases.
win the vast resource power at the
| Grace plant, il is believed that II win
/ be long time before the company Is
compelled to build its seventh plant
The company's right to Bear lake
/ and North lake was acquired from the
government. after contest which ex-
/ tended over five or six years.
In these lakes is impounded the en-
/ tire flood run-off of the Bear river
watershed. which formerly flowed into
Great Salt lake and evaporated.
Figure Rights In Billions.
The limit of these impounding rights
is estimated at 10000. OOO. 900 cubic feet.
Bear lake is twenty miles long and
seven miles wide, part of il being in
! Utah and part in Idaho.
North lake covers thirty-six square
miles.
Besides furnishing power to the
mines of Utah and Idaho, the Telluride
company furnishes light TO Provo, Lo-
! gan. Bingham, Eureka, Mercur, Silver