The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-11-26
Will Furnish Power.

The conduit is $4,000 feet long, with an
average fall of about fifteen inches to
the 1000 feet. This is the gradual fall
until the conduit empties its water from
Big Cottonwood and Mill creek into
PaTley's before the water runs on down
over the steps to the reservoir. Just
how much horsepower can be developed
from this water has not been calCu-
lated, but there is plenty, it is contend
ed, to do all of the pumping of sewage
and furnish nearly all of the lights in
the business districts, and to light the
downtown streets far better than at the
present time.
It costs Salt Lake more than $50, 600
annually for lights throughout The city,
under the present contract with the
Utah Light & Railway company. Each
light costs % cents a year 10 be OpeT-
ated. The pumps at the North. Salt
Lake plant have not yet required full
power owing to the long delay in COM
pleting the intercepting sewer and lat
erals, but permits are now being issued
by the city engineers Office to connect
with the sewer. In a short time, it is
believed, the pumps will be working as
much as they viii be ali during next
year. This power, too, is being fur
nished by the Utah Light & Railway
company, and will cost the city more
than $4,000 annually to take care Of the
sewage.
1t is the belief of Mayor Bransford
and others who have been proposing the
scheme that the cost of the power plant
in Parley's canyon can be paid for
within four or five years through get
ting rid of this additional expenditure
for lights and sewage power.
One of fbp drawbacks is tho IA Of thai
there is not man in the city engineer s
office who can draw plans and make
specifca tons for a modern electric pow
er plant. This has not held back the
work during the last two years, how
ever, but lack of funds has been the
cause. In the bond issue of 1905, $40 00e
was to be set aside for the construction
of a power plant at the reservoir in
Parley's canyon, but when the Ameri-
can party came in this money was
quickly eaten up. The administration
not only overlooked the item of $40, 900.
but changed the plans so that the fall
of $50 feet in the canyon went over steps
and thus lost the force, and also gave
$4,000 to p. J. Moran to replaster the
inside of the conduit from one end to
the other-wOrk that was required IN
der the original plans and under the
contract.
Besides the building of the plant it
self, there will be additional cost
through the fact that a long iron pipe.
about seven feet in diameter, will have
to be set into the canyon in place of
the present steps. This will be neces-
sary to afford as much power as posi-
BILE and get the full advantage of the
fall of $50 feet. Franchises of the city
with the Utah Light & Railway COM
pany and with the Telluride Power COM
pany make it possible for the city to
use poles of each of the power compa-
MES for the city's wires, and will thus
cut down a large expense in transmit
ting the power from Parley's canyon to
the Seventh North pumping plant or
downtown to the street lighting
Mayor BTansford believes it is a
shame to waste all Of that water power
owned by the city, and will press the
matter of building a municipal power
plant as soon as the new city officers
get down to business after the first of
the year