Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-01
UTAH WATER POWER BOOMS
Streams Created for Irrigation and
Electricity.
NOVEL ADDITION FOR OGDEN
Land Company Plsts Area with Or
chRrd for Each Buyer-Fifteen
Austriass Unearth HOnrded
Wealth from Cellar.

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are two large hydro-electric power plants
near ogden, where power Is being gem
Grated for the Utah Light and Railway COM
pany, an auxiliary OF the Hartman rail-
roads, which supplies Ogden and salt Lake
! city with electric current for all purposes
Plans are being perfected for the con-
| struction OF an additional power plant
which is to be Independent of the pres
| ent company. The farmers OF the district
/ have what is known as the Davis and Weber
Counties Canal company. Through their
canal which is ten miles long a large
1 flow Of water for irrigation purposes is
/ diverted from Weber river. This canal
is being concerted and its carrying capac-
4 ity Increased so that a surplussflow will be
obtained. This surplus is TO be sent through
a pipe at point near Riverdale. to the
south OF Ogden, and. with fall Of $50
feet, made to generate 5000 horsepower
Part Of this electric current will be utilized
in propelling the lnterurban trolley cars
between Ogden and salt Lake City, and
about 1000 horse power will go to light
several small towns turn the wheels Of
two or more flour mills and, possibly
pump water from the canal 10 land which
Is above the line OF the waterway.
big Demand for Power.
The Utah Light and Railway company
in winter has service for all the water
power 1t can obtain in the form Of cleo
tricity, and its lately completed power
plant in Weber canyon at this time of
the year will afford no excess Of electric
power although generating $500 kilowatts
The plant has the most modern electric
generating machinery in the west In
stead Of being built In units with water
wheels Of LOCO horsepower, the plant has
but one Pelton Wheel a horizontal turbine
with automatic DETECTING vanes capable
! OF producing 5000 horsepower. 1t Is fed by
a wooden, stone and cement pipe seven
feet in diameter, the largest of its kind in
| the world With a fall of 100 feet in less
than two miles, the water shoots through
the turbine with tremendous force. Gre
ating an alternating current which moves
! street cars in Salt Lake, forty miles dis
tant or lights the electric signs in Ogden
In summer when there is less lighting to
be done and the demand for electric power
! Is comparatively light, these electric COM
panies have more current than can be con-
sumed. The period Of great loss has
passed and new duties for the electric chr
rent must be found. Within the last
month the Utah Light and Railway COM
pany has made a bid to pump water next
summer for the farmers and as an induce
ment has offered to compete with the grav-
ity canals by making a rate of cent per
kilowatt hour for electric power to be used
in pumping water from wells or surface
streams. The company purposes to extend
lines to farms and supply the power for
pumps
Will Reach Remote Parts,
! Lands heretofore looked upon as beyond
] a oh Of
/ brought under Irrigation If this innova-
uon proves practical, Hydraulic engineers
say 1t is practical with electric power M
cent per lSlowatt hour to lift water az
high as fifty feet This makes possible
the cultivation of great stretch of foot
hills above the highest canals that now If.
rigate the arabic lands Of Ogden and
vicinity.
Odd Land Deal On.
| The Farr Improvement companv a pau,
corporation, has plated an addition IN
ogden which is somewhat novel in that
each owner of lot is to have an orchard
The seventy-five acres owned by the
company through which runs an electric
line, are to be divided into seventy-five
lots OF an acre each, on which peach and
apple trees are to be planted. The idea
Is TO combine city and country life ana
make possible a home where the family
can draw from nature a big fraction of the
revenue required to keep the wolf from
the door
When Brigham Young, that master mind
OF eolohizers, laid out the cities of Utah.
ne aimed TO do that which is now beinn
attempted by the Farr Improvement com
pany Each block contained ten acres.
on which ten families, with an acre To
each family, were located. BY intensive
cultivation, or truck gardening, each lot
was intended to support a family and
yet bring about community interests.
These acre lots served their purpose until
the villages grew to be towns end the
towns, cities, when the ten-acre blocks he
came hollow squares. built up on all sides
and that is why ogden. and Salt Lake
today have blocks 100 feet long, which
cause strangers to remark the length and
to ask questions
One Long Block Cut.
Lately one OF these big blocks in the
business center OF the city has been cut
In two by condemnation proceedings on the
part OF the city and a new business street
10 be known as Hudson avenue, IS being
created by the tearing down OF one and
two-story buildings and the erection OF
substantial structures, one of which is
to be, an office building five to six stories
high beautiful in architectural outlines
and modern in construction and equip
ment
Austrians show Thrift.
Money does not grow on bushes I'm the
land OF the Mormons, but there are plod
ding foreigners who come here and grow
wealthy at tasks and for pay which the
average American rejects as bemeaning
mere are nfteen Austrians. Just IN from
the Cutoff that abbreviated title Of
that greatest OF Harriman's constructive
railroad achievements, the Ogden-Iucin
bridge across Great Salt lake, the Dead
Sea or America. These strangers had
been In this country about five years
when they decided to spend Christmas In
the empire OF Francis Joseph. so thew
came to town and instructed their coun-
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