Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1912 — Brook Light Plant Sold. [ARTICLE]

Brook Light Plant Sold.

Gragg Brothers sold the Brook electric light plant to the Northern Indiana Utilities Company, Friday and will give posession in a short time. The Utilities Company have gobbled up about all the small piant3 in this section, within the past few months. They have the Monticello, Fpwler Boswell, Oxford, Earl Park, Sheldon, Kentland. Goodland, Wolcott, Morocco and Brook plants, and possibly others. The Utilities company is an offspring of the Chicago Edison company and have immense resources. The entire system will be lighted from the power plant at Monticello, and an extensive wiring system is now being run over the country. A reserve power plant will be installed at Fowler, and in case of emergancy this will be used to supply power. The main plant, at Monticello is run by water power, an immense dam ing been constructed across the Tippecanoe river at that point, and this will also supply the above named towns with juice, with the exception bf emergency calls. All of the machinery in the plants in these towns will be taken out aB fast as wires are strung and connected up. The Brook line will be brought over from Ade, where it taps the Kentland-Morocco lines. The main line will carry 33.000 voltage to Kentland; 23,000 to Ade, and 11,000 into the towns. It will be a twenty-four hour service, the same as we have heretofore enjoyed, but the amount of service in sleety and stormy weather remains to be seen, ,and no doubt there will be times during storms that the people will wish the main plant was a little nearer than Monticello.— Brook Reporter. ’Phone 315 if in need of anything in the job printing line and a representative of The Democrat will call upon you promptly.