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On Sept. 1, 1908 L. W. Jones resigned his position as Supt. of the power plant but continued as a committee member. O n May 10 ,1911 it was decided that in order to furnish the power to the Normal School, it would be necessary to run the electric plant for day service on Tuesday and Saturday the entire day and on Wednesday and Friday for a half a day. I n addition, the engineer would be required to run the plant from sunset to sunrise each night. A new company was organized in February of 1912 known as the Cedar Electric. Co. It was financially capitalized at $25,000 and the common stock had a par value of one dollar per share. Lehi was selected as incorporator and was named as the manager. In 1915 he was elected president of the Cedar Electric. Company." In 1919 on March 15th, the Cedar Electric Co, circulated an information sheet that read as follows: "The Dixie Power Company is negotiating with Cedar Electric CO. lo purchase their plant and conditional on the citizens subscribing to Power Co. stock at $100. par to make the line extension from the company lines at Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, a distance of approximately 30 miles, the reduction sub station and changes in Cedar town system at an estimated cost of $36,000." Your local company can continue to give you satisfactory service for lighting and small moton load for some time to come but its present plant is inadequate for furnishing power for the pumping requirements on lands in this valley." " We are also confronted with costly replacement to our steel pipe and distribution system and this would not increase our output. \Ve therefore deem it to he for the best interest of Cedar City and Iron County to dispose of our present system and encourage the bringing into our district sufficient power to develop our latest resources.'' "We therefore ask you to become a share holder with us in the utiility company and help build up our county and at the same time make what we believe to be a good investment." Very truly, Cedar Electric Company The Dixie Power Co. took over the Cedar Electric Co. April 1, 1919. The plant in Cedar City was run only a short time and then the redwood flow line and steel penstock, tog-ether ~vithusable materials from the building, were moved to the hydro plants near Veyo, Washington Co., Utah. The water wheel was later moved to the Parowan Flour Mill to replace one there which had a broken shaft. After the building was removed the dynamo (A.C. generator) remained there on the comrete base for years and was finally removed during a scrap iron drive.'Xehi's sons said they were cetainly happy when the power plant was sold hecause it had just heen a drudge to them. They said, after they sold it, the
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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
Type	Image; Still image
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Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 171
Description	On Sept. 1, 1908 L. W. Jones resigned his position as Supt. of the power plant but continued as a committee member. O n May 10 ,1911 it was decided that in order to furnish the power to the Normal School, it would be necessary to run the electric plant for day service on Tuesday and Saturday the entire day and on Wednesday and Friday for a half a day. I n addition, the engineer would be required to run the plant from sunset to sunrise each night. A new company was organized in February of 1912 known as the Cedar Electric. Co. It was financially capitalized at $25,000 and the common stock had a par value of one dollar per share. Lehi was selected as incorporator and was named as the manager. In 1915 he was elected president of the Cedar Electric. Company." In 1919 on March 15th, the Cedar Electric Co, circulated an information sheet that read as follows: "The Dixie Power Company is negotiating with Cedar Electric CO. lo purchase their plant and conditional on the citizens subscribing to Power Co. stock at $100. par to make the line extension from the company lines at Mountain Meadows to Cedar City, a distance of approximately 30 miles, the reduction sub station and changes in Cedar town system at an estimated cost of $36,000." Your local company can continue to give you satisfactory service for lighting and small moton load for some time to come but its present plant is inadequate for furnishing power for the pumping requirements on lands in this valley." " We are also confronted with costly replacement to our steel pipe and distribution system and this would not increase our output. \Ve therefore deem it to he for the best interest of Cedar City and Iron County to dispose of our present system and encourage the bringing into our district sufficient power to develop our latest resources.' "We therefore ask you to become a share holder with us in the utiility company and help build up our county and at the same time make what we believe to be a good investment." Very truly, Cedar Electric Company The Dixie Power Co. took over the Cedar Electric Co. April 1, 1919. The plant in Cedar City was run only a short time and then the redwood flow line and steel penstock, tog-ether ~vithusable materials from the building, were moved to the hydro plants near Veyo, Washington Co., Utah. The water wheel was later moved to the Parowan Flour Mill to replace one there which had a broken shaft. After the building was removed the dynamo (A.C. generator) remained there on the comrete base for years and was finally removed during a scrap iron drive.'Xehi's sons said they were cetainly happy when the power plant was sold hecause it had just heen a drudge to them. They said, after they sold it, the C' 171
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1249.pdf

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