Electric Power Comes to Utah BY OBED C. H A Y C O C K
Pioneer Electric Power Company plant near Fourteenth and Harrison Boulevard in Ogden. The photographs in this article are courtesy of Utah Power and Light Company unless credited otherwise. U N N O V E M B E R 26, 1879, the Deseret News editorialized: " T h e excitem e n t of electricity as an illuminating agent has to a great extent subsided. Edison's scheme by which the electric light was to have been utilized for household as well as public purposes does not seem to be so feasible as at first supposed. . . ." Less t h a n a year later the Deseret News reversed itself: " T h i s is emphatically the age of electricity. T h a t is, the power and capabilities of the force known by that n a m e are being developed in a m a n n e r unknown to ages of the past. . . ." 1 As experiments continued M r . Haycock is professor emeritus of electrical engineering, University of U t a h . Parts of this article are based on the author's personal knowledge. ' J u l y 7, 1880.
