Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905 . The Monument Corner 88 Waiting for the Harness. C^HEAP POWER.—In her canyonp streams Utah possesses won-derfully cheap and effectivepower. At almost nominal costelectrical energy can be suppliedafter a generating plant is in-stalled. This method of supply-ing power has proved so muchI cheaper and so much more satis-factory than any other that it isin hundreds of instances takingthe place
Utah: facts to prove that the youngest of the states is progressive and prosperous /issued by the Utah Commission for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition held in Portland June 1st to October 15th, 1905 . The Monument Corner 88 Waiting for the Harness. C^HEAP POWER.—In her canyonp streams Utah possesses won-derfully cheap and effectivepower. At almost nominal costelectrical energy can be suppliedafter a generating plant is in-stalled. This method of supply-ing power has proved so muchI cheaper and so much more satis-factory than any other that it isin hundreds of instances takingthe place of steam. Scores ofmining companies have installedtheir own electrical plants, orpurchase power from the many efficient companies,now in the field. The demand for this kind of poweris evident from the number of plants contemplatedor under construction at the present Nerves of the Nation. RAILROADS.—Utah has 1856 miles of railroadoperated by fifteen railroad corporationswhose property has an assessed valuation of$16,532,131. The railroad mileage of which Utah isthe natural center is 4000 and the rolling stock usedin this territory comprehends 388 locomotives and9,523 cars. The recent completion of the Salt Lake- 23 Los Angeles road, the anticipated air line fromDenver, already in course of construction, and theWestern Pacific, from Salt Lake to San Francisco,for which the bonds have been subscribed twiceover, will make Salt Lake the greatest railroad cen-ter in the West. The official railroad program for1905 includes extensive construction by the follow-ing companies: Western Pacific; Denver, North-western & Pacific; Interurban system; Salt LakeSouthern; San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake;Oregon Short Line; Salt Lake & Ogden; Newhouse,Copper Gulch & Sevier; Uintah; Rio Grande West-ern. Twenty-one of Utahs counties are touched
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