The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-04-30
HUGHES PLANT
IN S3,000,000
UTILITY GROUP
Local Heat, Light and Power
Company to Be Taken Over
by Big Corporation
PRESIDENT WILL RETIRE
Founder of Local Establishment
to Devote Summer to Build
ing Business Houses

With the approval of the North,
Dakota railway commission, th<
Hughes Electric Co. Of Bismarck
will May IS become unit in
$3,00o,0oo heat, light and power
combine which will control these
utilities in thirteen good-sized ci-
ties Of the state. While Sen. E.itA. 1
Hughes, president Of the Hughes
Electric CO., Minnesota corpor-
i. alton. has declined to verify the
statement. It became known here
today on very good authority that
. the Dakota Heat, light 4 Power
] Co. has. taken an option on the
Hughes plant iAb jeet, TO approval
~ the railway 81 commission, 4 j,
$6oo0o0, and that the Hughes ~
( Deter Electric Co. Of Daeklnson
has been taken under the same
terms at . consideration Of, ap
proximateiy $175,ooo.
Buys jamestown Plant.
The Dakota Heat, Light & POW"'
Co. in which former Governor L. d
Hanna is heavily Interested, ma, l.
some time operated q light and power
plant at Devils Lake. Last week il
purchased for 100000 the Western
Electric Co. of jamestown, and 1t ha'
made a bid for the Mandan light an(
power company which the stockhold
ers of this corporation now have un
der consideration. Other plants are
owned by the Dakota company in Car
ringtOn, New Rockford, Enderlin, Cas-
.,olkr,, ~ noLoc nrH &c, biI1IiV,o fnI
the Lisbon plant.
II the consolidation goes through
the Dakota Heat, Light & Power CO
will on May j 5 have the operation ant
control of plants In, Bismarck, Dickin
son, ,Mandan, jamestown, Lisbon
Darlington, Oakes, Casselton, Ender
lin, New Rockford and Devils Lake
making 1T one Of the most rpowerfu
public utility corporations in tn
northwest, ,.,
Sale Surprise;
The prospective sale OF the Hughe
Electric Co. of Bismarck altho rum
Ored for some time, comes as a sur
prise TO the public generally The
corporation has been regarded as un
usually successful Bismarck's frs
CACCII1C pAdnJ was CICCtCu Dy oCAdtO
IT,. AZ: Hughes in the early nineties
From a, small beginning has develops
an institution which supplies the en-
tire. city with light and power ant
which furnishes about half the Bis
marck homes with electric current TO
cooking at the rate of three cents
The company also heats all of tn
downtown district. D.
In addition to the Bismarck plant
Senator Hughes built electric plants il
Fargo, Dickinson, Mandan, Glendive
Mont, and Eveleth and Staples, Mimi
To euiid in Bismarck.
It Is understood to be Mr.. Hughes
present intention to invest in new Bis
portion of the 100000 which wiIl&b
derived from the sale of the loGa
plant His enterprises will include,
large new vaudeville and pictur.
theatre. for which plans already hav
been prepared: 2 large store and of
flee building in the same section O
the city and one other structure
whose nature cannot be discovered
Later it is probable Mr.. Hughes will
spend year in travelling, at the en'
of which time he purposes to return t
North Dakota to undertake NOR,
intensive development of the state''
Ignite deposits, in which he alread!
is heavily interested, having been tn
promoter of and one of the heavies
stockholders in the Beulah Coal Min
ing Co., second largest mining enter
prise in the state.