The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
[(INEER5 ON
||PECTl0N TRIP
Junket Over Lines Of
|S,ts's Longest Electrical
4 Roads.
RER PLANTS ARE
\ INCLUDED in TRIP
h Members of Society and
|Itn Invited Guests Make
Journey.

Asr members Of the Utah Society
r,sinrers and ten invited guests
"a trip Saturday that they win
fmeet for somc time. The trip
.,ad the Inspection of the two
IA electrical railroads in this state,
rber Of power plants and other
4 Of interest, and when members
Rs pariy returned TO this city at
tbey declared that The trip had
pyoftable ono and their declara-
sss echoed by those who had been
aato enough to receive an invita-
b 20 on tho inspection trip.
psrsx left Salt Lake City short
her . O'Clock Saturday morning in
sisl car over tue Salt Lake g.
b road. lhe car was in charge
fetormsn 3. Mathews and CONDUIT
Pocarly, Sidney Bambcrger. vice
snf of the road. and Ray Need
acting general freight and pas
h agent, went along to see that
iblug went all right, and IT ID
cs to say that il did so go. II
y, take tho members of the party
10 decide that the cars used on
roa1 arc amoug the finest IN the
b.. that the rpadbcd has been 30
red within the last two months
Toe hig intcrurhsn ears run over
ia boat gliding through calm wa.
much improved is tho roadbed of
agcon route that il took the spe-
but 6ftysiX minutes 10 reach Og-
lnj this included five stops.
Arrival at Ogden.
iripg al Ogden, the party WAS
g one oS the big new iuterurbsu n
hi the Ogden Rapid Transit com
WITH Joseph Il. Bailey, general
iptcndent of the ogden street car
b. on hand TO sec that every pos
courtesy WAS shown the visitors.
uiy FIRST was taken to the Pho
power plant. enc Of the many
Of the Utah Light. 6 Railway
by, which is about q mile north
pest OF the mouth Of Ogden river.
tpNer plaUt, like the others which
Inspected in the day, is a model
Fpletencss and cleanliness.
Eater for this plant comes from
ogden river. being carried dis
Of about six miles through fumes.
s apd pipes. The latter part of
Scm, from the side of the noun.
y The power plant. is an iron pipe.
a. IN diameter on the inside. will
81 40 fcci vhhen it reaches
hnt. This water generates 5000
his Of electricity With q voltage
ono. Au addition recontly has
tiiit on the west end Of thc build
md new machIncry is being IN
D When this work is completed
pltsgc Will be Increased to 10000
fgmpaDv is now al work raising
Em in tho canyon to get larger
d water. After leaving the plant
Fatcr is returned to the farmers
psp the primary right 10 it, with
css than would occur bad it como
The bed Of the river in the canyon
em the Pioneer plant he party
hkeu for Il car ride through bean
0gden canyon 10 tho Hermitage
ihc members were greeted by
bio" Billie Wilson, the genial host
famous resort, who entered "a Wig
kick because he had not been
ID that tho party was coming, SC
ae might have had the big house
ped and taken care Of it, III the
rr that has made his place so popu
II was only when Mr. Wilson wa,
ned that Inc party had made tho
ap the canyon only To SEQ the
built by The Ogden Rapid Transit
any for a distance of three mile,
egh almost solid rock. at cost oi
poO, and that lis programme wa.
lhat it could not stop five minute!
any circumstances that HUncl,
agreed TO accompany the party
10 Ogden,
Luncheon at Weber Club.
party partook Of an cxcelIen nj
ton at The Weber club, which wa:
se1 by short addresses from q, II
ald, president of the society. unc
Bambergcr. The speeches nigh
lasted several hours had not Su
lendent Bailey announced that th,
Was due 10 leave for Brigham
l:l3. II WAS five minutes afte
Eaedulcd time that the special lef
''e county seat Of Box Elder coun
run OF twenty-five miles over th'
sl@'rlc road of the Ogden Rapi'
" company.
l'art OF the trip was a rcvcls
those who heretofore have onl,
through the north end Of Webc
and the south part of Box Eide
on The steam railroad The cleo
.9c passns through a country ric'
asnitural and fruit lands, the pos
We OF which arc just beginnin:
,eahzcd Hundreds and thousand
~ OF peach orchards, some o
nave been bearing for years an
y mat will not begin to mike re
ior three or four Years, were see
Inc ear windows; yet ten year
%oeu Of this land WAS considere
. II ~ Ut worth next to nothing.
,o,', mne OF tue Ogden Rapid Tran
C;,Issy between Ogden and Brig
lrS ~ twenty-five miles long. an
e,,a ,oe car has to climb r pc
TSue. tSa Superintendent Bailey sal
n, an an new cutoff, which will d.
1.se oe distance and cut the steer
10 upwn to less than | per cen
T " rTUlnlplcted Tl within tho next thirt
hlac present running time b,
.ns two cities is ono hour pn
MINUTES, but. With the compI,
" te cutoff, this will be reduce
ars O9ur for through trains and on
4, Is 4. nitecn minutes for aecomm,
fos5 The approximate cost c
dsr ~, ,,;yh WIN the cutoff, will be
,.sI y present three sizes Of raj
% nv pound, 40 pound and {
st,a,ne sne hrst are used on but
"eleh OF the road. which seIdo
TTssd when the cutoff is con
5a .h ne road only has been in o.
III apouf ts thirty days, vet despit