Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
THOMAS D. DEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

Of the Wall avenue and Ogden canyon
extensions in 1909 the Twenty-nfth
street line was extended from Harrison
avenue to Taylor avenue and the dou-
| ble-track portion of the same line cx-
| tended from Orchard avenue to Monroe
| avenue, a distance of 1.4G0 feet.
The Plain City line was also complet-
| ed early in the year and regular serv-
| ice of elegant new cars has been in
| stalled There was also completed a
| four and one-half mile cutoff between
! Plain City and Hot Springs.
The most important construction of
| the year, however. is that of the Brig
| ham City line upon which there has
recently been established Il regular
service of iincly-nppointed cars cost
| ing $1,000 each. These ears are mod
| els of comfort and efficiency. and are
| inferior to none in the entire west.
In making these extensive better
ments In its system the Ogden Rapid
| Transit company has expended n vast
amount OF money. It's 17la miles Of
| new road has cost on an average of
have been purchased at n cost OF $1,000
each, three "trailers" at $4,000 each,
a 30-ton electric locomotive at $1,000 a
| 500 kiowatt motor generator costing 49,
| 900 and another costing $4,000. Even
! the frogs and switches used in the now
work amount to $1,000, and numerous
| other expenditures have been In proper
| ton.
WATER SUPPLY.
| As in every nopulous center in the
so-caled arid west, water IS king over
all other natural resources, and Og-
den Is especially we'll provided with
adequate supplies both for irrigation
| and power purposes. Practically all
| the available streams emptying into
| Great Salt Lake in the vicinity of Og-
| den are appropriated for various uses
| and their waters either conserved in
| reservoirs constructed high up in the
| canyons of their source or brought down
| in great conduits to serve in capacities
| for electric power or for city use.
| The Utah Light & Railway company s
| plant near the mouth of Ogden canyon
| Is supplied with water through six and
| IL quarter miles of steel and wooden
tubing more than six feet in diameter.
+. The giant turbines at the plant are fur
| nished with water at a pressure of 200
| pounds to the square foot, making pos
sble the generation OF 1000 kilowatts
| of electricity.
Another great power project was COM
| pletcd this year In Weber canyon. be-
| ing the new plant OF the Weber Canyon
| Power company. This system involves
5000 feet of six-foot steel piping and
1000 feet of solid concrete tube eight
feet in diameter. a pressure of Il
pounds to the square incl, Is obtained
Mt this plant, which has capacity OF
5000 kilowatts.
Besides these plants and the various
| irrigation systems upon which depend
the agricultural triumphs of the Ogden
district should be outlined the recent
purchase. by the people of Ogden. OF
tho entire city water system. Although
the formal transfer of the system was
contaminated in 1909 the benefits accru-
ing from municipal ownership of the
system have been brought to public re-
| alization only as the many facts and
figures have been calculated and pub
lished.
AS municipal ownership of public
service institutions is still IL much
mootcd question throughout the coun-
try, 1t may be well to state that the
purchase OF the Ogden system was
made from the Ogden Waterworks com
pany. private corporation. the consid-
Grafton being $555,4O0.
Following an election in favor OF
making the proposed purchase. bonds
TO the amount of si5O,000 bearing inter-
est at the rate OF AZ per cent per an
nun, payable semi were is
sued and sold to an eastern house fol
the sum of si50,5a5, being at II premium
OF s525. Owing to the inability OF tho
purchasers of tho bonds to deliver tho
blank forms. tho same wore not OK
ecuted until Is days later the purchas,
crs therefore paying an additional
amount of s7S1 20 for interest. making
tho total sum received from the sale o.