The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-14
TELLURIDE PLANS
BIG IMPROVEMENTS

News of the final transfer of the con-
troll OF the Telluride Power company TO
the hands OF James Campbell and the
syndicate behind him. as ca arried in the
Associated Press dispatches last night,
is but confirma tion OF reports that have
been common in Salt Lake for several
weeks. AS told In the Tribune recently,
the real factor behind Mr. Campbell and
the purchasing syndicate Is the General
Electric company OF Schnectady. n. Y,
which, through It's subsidiary company,
the Electric Bond & Share company, pur-
chased outright IS 600. 900 worth OF the
stocks and bonds OF the Telluride COM
pany about August l., and is now en-
deavorins to obtain a large portion of
the remaining stock.
Plan Big improvements.
The reorganization plans effected at
Cleveland yesterday include a programme
OF vast improvements In the company's
various hydro electric power plants In
Utah and Idaho. 1t Is proposed to use
the waters OF Bear river and Bear lake
on q gigantic scale that will give the
company an almost unlimited supply for
power purposes and will make possible
the reclamation by irrigation OF thou
sands OF acres OF land In Utah and Idaho
The plan calls for the expenditure Of
H,75o,oOo, the greater part of which will
be used to complete the Bear lake reser-
Vor now under way. and the peuecting
of a series of canals to convey the water
10 points where It can be used for power
purposes and later for irrigation.
Insures Constant Supply.
BY completing It's Bear lake projects
on the enlarged scale now contemplated ed
the company will be able to effect an
equalization OF water supply for the va
rious generating plants, thus insurng a
constant power supply up to the capacity
of tho plants. no matter how heavy the
demand. A shortage of water at one
plant arising from any cause whatever
can be overcome by divertlng water from
the reservoirs, which will be common TO
all the plants drawing their supply from
the Bear luke watershed. With a little
more expenditure 1t will be possible to
divert the water into Irrigation canals
after II has been used for power purposes
and convey It to a large area Of land
now arid IN the affected zone.
Irrigation After Power.
The Telluride Power company claims
control OF the entire food drainage OF
the Bear Lake watershed, giving IL
500, 900 acre feet of water available for
power purposes. OF this amount, 200. 900
acre feet arc available for irrigation after
being used for power purposes. To uti
lie this 1t is planned TO complete the
diversion canal from Bear river TO a
point near Dingo. Ida, and to build q
series of dykes to impound tho water
from North and Bear lakes that now
runs to waste into Great Salt lake. To
release these iupounded waters 1T Is
planned 10 dredgs channel sixteen
miles IN length from Ovid. Ida. to Mont
peIier, A reservoir will he built at Soda
Springs to supply the diurna1 peak of the
Grace plant. thus giving a constant max
inum power supply from that plant. In
power.
In Oneida Narrows.
After turning the wheels at the Grace
plant, the water will be diverted down
the channel o.! tho Bear river again to
a point In the Oneida Narrows. where
by means OF great dam. ninety feet
high another reservoir with capacity
Of 10000 acre feet. will be built From
this reservoir conduits will carry the
water to another generating station three
miles down tho canyon. affording an ad-
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