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Show Water Wheel Shipped Today Mayor W. P. Winters and Ray Bonne, City Electrician, were advised ad-vised by . representatives of the Smith -Morgan Water Wheel Company Com-pany Tuesday, while in Salt Lake City, that a new water wheel was being recast for the City Power Plant at York, Pennsylvania and is being shipped today. Company officials informed the mayor that the wheel had been cast several times before they could get one to suit them, as it is being made of a special alloy of metals to .meet the requirements of the wear and tear of the SuU pher Springs water. The wheel is made of a composition composi-tion of copper, tin, nichol and phosphate flux. This composition has been tested and found that the Sulpher Spring water will not readily decompose the structure o! the wheel The fr.imer wheel started to show signs of breaking about six months after it was installed. It is expected that the wheel .will arrive here in about ten days to be placed in the upper unit of the City Power system. |