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Show f' k ? h THE SUE. PRIOR, PAGE EIGHT r CHIHKEY LOSSES i r , r - . it Iffi HEM Bl The suLjcrt of fuel economy is today of greater interest to the fuel consumer than ever before. There are two reasons- First, fuel costs two or three times as much as it did a few year ago; and second, in many instances during the past few years it has been very difficult to get it at any 1 rices of fuel, no matter price. The first reason is one that will remain- what kind, will undoubtedly stay high, and in all probability will go still higher. The second reason should, however, vanish entirely when once labor and transportation facilities are properly controlled. There is plenty of furl for all who need it. The fuel given us by nature, ready for use, will last for generations, but even when all our enemies arc exhausted and our oil fields pumped dry, there will still be enough fuel in some form or another- Mother nature will at that time again come to our protection with that greatest of her laws, the conservation of matter and energy. Carbon and hydrocarbons are really conserved by her unseen hand, but it remains for man to turn the key which will unlock her great storeroom. - - ron-sum- rr f Lou Up the Chimney r . , t I ! sumed. Steam boilers, for example, connected with a stack that does not show the slightest trace of smoke may burn twice as much coal per pound of water evaporated as when smoke is in great prominence. Black smoke is of course unburned carbon, but the amount of carbon in this light and finely divided form that is necessary to give the products of combustion a dark or even a black appearance is generally only a small fraction of 1 per cent of the actual fuel burnrd. The additional d fuel that is apt to be present in the products of combustion is carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon, both of which are caused by an insufficient air supply or the proper mixture of the air with the fuel before it is ignited. Although it is possible for the Ioydue to this cause to be serioMS.lt is a fact that the aycrage loss from this source can safely be estimated as tese than 2 per cent , . Complete Combustion To reduce chimney losses to a minimum, no matter what means is we must kno whether or not he prop" amount of air is being sup- Ihed, whether or not air has been properly mixed with the fuel before it was ignited and whether or not too much heat is left in the products of combustion as they pass up (he chimney. Under all conditions these important facts can be determined with the consistent use of fuel gas analysis and temperature measurements. The effect of any change in fuel or method of firing, the results of any additions or changes or the value of any new appliance, can in this way be determined at once, and the best efficiency under the working conditions of any plant can generally be obtained and maintained without the necessity of lengthy and elaborate tests. With ideal combustion the rate of burning and consequently the amount of beat energy developed in a unit of time would be in proportion to the amount of air supplied. Unfortunately, however, conditions under which fuel is burned are very far from Ideal. In every day practice air is supplied to the fuel in such excessive quantities' that only from a third to a half of it combines with the combustible to liberate the heat which it contains, n ninety-nin- e cases out of a hundred this condition is simply due to a lack of facilities for knowing whether the proper amount of air is supplied per pound of fuel ronsunted. When carbon, the principal constituent of any furl, is completely burned the result is C02. Complete combustion occurs when air is supplied in excess of xvhat is needed. When, however, the air supply is reduced or regulated to approach that which is theoretically required there is also a possibility of incomplete ronibustion-Whrt Iris is the rase some of the carbon in thr fuel will burn to CO instead of C02. It must he remembered, however, that the big loss in practice is due to excess air and not to an insufficient supply. PROF. AUGUST GR0GH terials. All the air that is used in burning coal, whether under steam boilers or for any other process, appears in the products of combustion. If three times as much air is used as is necessary there will be just about three times as much products of combustion as necessary. The gas as it passes up the chimney contains the major portion of the heat that is unnecessarily wasted. Every degree of temperature to which each pound of this gas is heated above the temProf. Auguat Grogfi of Copenhagen, perature of the atmosphere means twenty-fiv- e hundredths heat units winner of the Nobel prixe for medithat go to waste.' The exact amount cine. of heat wasted irf this way can be determined by the weight of the pro Legal blanka of all kinds. Tbe Sun. P'lY11" Total, J122.164.40 Warrants issued during year 1920 $122,164.40 Cash on hand as per treasurers report, 1st, 1921 January Overdrawn 4,355.83 20,425.17 $ Total $ 24,781.00 Warrants outstanding $ 24,781.00 CONDITION or 11 IS GONE Water service connections Refunds Sidewalk payments redeemed Sewer connections Fire department use of fire truck man who requires hospital attention must be sent to whatever private or public hospital will take him, regardless of what may be the needs of his special case regardless of whether the hospital is capable of providing the proper attention. Hospital Is Needed The Utah legion and tlie public health service have united in their demand for an appropriation of a 400.00 155.37 928.66 502.50 200.00 45.90 360.72 748.00 349.55 20,000.00 5,000.00 183.96 Estrays Sale of merchandise Electric light extensions Sewer extensions Loans from hanks Loans from sinking fund Miscellaneous Received from waterworks fund for money spent, (1) stopping leaks lower end pipeline for contractors, Staes, Zeese & Kaikos (2) improving, enlarging and perfecting the present system, mainly in Price Capvy 9,457.83 20,425.17 Overdrawn Tota! $122,164.40 DISBURSEMENTS Officers salaries Police department Fire department Street department Janitor Park and pavilion Justice of peace Water department (includes $9633.83 received from special waterworks fund .......... City Hall ; Sinking fund Final payment on fire truck the greatest problems presented in man are. the care of the first, the treatment of tubercular cases; second, the care of mental cases. Both types of cases need particular treatment of the best sort possible. Yet the United States does not now have a single hospital in the country of its own where these cases 3,136.75 can be sent. Instead, is is compelled 1,923.87 to rely upon public or private instiCaces have been disclosed 1,723.23 tutions. where former service men afflicted 5,913.95 with neurasthenic disorders resulting 525.00 from their war experiences are now 785.15 in insane asylums, beside the crimi1,127.79 nal insane and other cases of like ficulty he was sent to a hospital tem154.95 porarily as an emergency step, al170.98 though the place was not equipped 39.00 to rare for his type of disease. The young man in his diseased condition committed a breach of hospital discipline and the authorities were com18.722.63 pelled to ask his withdrawal. He 10.678.64 was taken from the hospital and, de673.77 spite the efforts expended, the tele14,678.18 grams used, the pleas made to the - 14.00 higher authorities, it was three weeks before could be obtained 20,000.00 to send permission him to Wisconsin, where is 167.91 the nearest private sanatorium to 33.00 which he could be sent. There is no 150.38 government hospital for such men. 12,192.00 There are at present upward of thirty-fiv- e former service men in private and 1,000.00 - fuel five Demanded By Legion on the other hand, congress "If, saves the $35,000,000 urgently needed to build for the future and to retrieve the tragic neglect ot the past, the makeshift expedients represented by the receptacles and asylums now housing those men will be continued.' Private sanatoria run for gain will continue to make profits, the size of which are determined by the difference between the amount paid by the government for the care of its neuroand the psychiatric beneficiaries amount actually expended upon them. Disused orphan asyluma, hotels and rundown army posts will have put bars in their windows, a few thousand dollars spent in partitions and the installation of plumbing, and have the words 'United States Neuropsy-chiati- c Hospital painted over their front entrances. "Some states, impatient of such delay?, and mindful of their obligations to their own men, will erect special hospitals for them. Others, observing that the government has shirked its duty, will shirk their own duty, not only to those men, but to the insane poor of the state generally, for the government standards can be leveling as well as ce upbuilding. "The responsibility rests first with congress and next with the administrative officers who have these wrecked minds in their care. But behind all stand the people of the country, especially the comrades of these disabled men, who must make known their own wishes in the matter in terms that admit of no misinterpre- tation." Wedding announcements. Coupon booVs in stock. I . Total $122,164.40 Soft Drinks, SIDEWALK ACCOUNT Balance due City as per statement, January 1st, 1920 lull. JUST RECEIVED New supply of baby eab tires. Bring you wheels to ROBINSON'S REPAIR 8H0F Price, Utah. - Investment 10,678.64 344.10 Total $ 3,826.68 ..$ 29,90.43 SPECIAL WATERWORKS RECEIPTS 928.66 2,898.02 Cesh on hand as per statement, January Total $ 3,826.68 Interest on bank balances.... FUND Receipts: Cash on hand as per statement of Jan- uary 1st, 1920.... Transfer from general fund $ Taxes Interest Return of loan from waterworks fund.. Total 8,318.02 12,192.00 410.00 601.06 15,500.00 $ 37,021.08 Disbursements loan to waterworks fund Loan to general fund (to be returned when 1920 taxes are received) Balance, cash on hand January 1st, 1921 Total tensions Total - Operating expense Gain for year 1920 DISBURSEMENTS Raikos, contractors ....... American Wood Pipe company Ogden Sewer Pipe and Clay company. b reight paid, tile and wood pipe. & .......I..'..'.'""'." Telephone and telegraph Crane company ' Inspector and riprapping .. ." 5,000.00 Palmer Bond and 16,521.08 Mortgage company, and legal services on bond issue $ 37,021.08 Jones & Olsen, engineers..... Loans returned 1,721.49 20,500.00 50,000.00 366.67 35,048.65 6,480.04 1,189.87 1,167.22 98.27 17.45 33.58 664.65 dis-cou- nt $ 29,643.10 ex- 356.33 .$ 29,990.43 ...$ 18,967.69 11,022.74 Total Operation and Investment: Total receipts Operating expense $ 10,500.13 377.74 $ 83,466.03 $ 15,500.00 STATEMENT OF ELECTRIC SYSTEM Operation : Cash receipts. Applied on light, water and sewer Total Express : FUND Denver & Rio Grande Railway company, for damage claims on pipe oa"8 Bonds, 1920 issue Accrued interest on bonds btaes, Zeese Cl gars. Tobaccos, er $ SINKING Sun. Candles, Nothing But the Best Your Trade Solicited. 1IAKRY MAHLKRKK Parker-WeetBldg Price, Redemptions made during 1920 Balance due City January 1st, 1921 t Ths Sun. Cigarettes. Gain -- The POOL HALL 1,122.06 Postage .. Telephone and telegraph Elections ... ... ........ Electric light operating expense (does not include $245.06 applied on advanced payment to Utah Power & Light C- o.Electric plant investment account Miscellaneous expense Estrays ing enlarged to A nature. i oeoaaooooaooooo stationery and printing Interest Meter refunds Loans returned capable of behundred beds, which would be devoted to the patients of the public health service. The regional supervisor of the health service, Dr. John C, Cornell of Den ver, Colo., hat approved the plan for a hospital in Salt Lake City of this capacity and has asked officers of the state legion to appear in Washington, D. G, at the hearings of the house appropriations committee to tell congress in unvarnished language just what the needs actually are. Dr. Benjamin W. Black, commander of Salt Lake Post No. 2 of the American Legion and director of the public health service in Utah, sayi that hospital, long ago a case was discover26,084.40 edNot in Salt Lake City of a young 701.06 man who was suffering from 445.70 a nervous disorder. After some dif- Cemeterj Sower Books, the hundred-be- d 176.00 public hospitals of the state, and at the present rate of commitment, even considering the disadvantageous circumstances surrounding the work at present, in another year a hundred bed hospital nil! be inadequate to care for the men in dire need of not only hospital care, but the right sort of hospital care in the right sort oi hospital. Similar conditions exist in the care of the men suffering from tuberculosis contracted in the service. Many men in the earlier stages of the disease, through ignorance, do not have a conception of the importance of immediate treatment. Consequently when they do get to the public health service their rases are only the more urgent- - Yet they must now go to whatever hospital can be persuaded to take them, even temporarily. The hospitalization program presented to congress, which calls for the $35,000-00- 0 appropriation and which includes the Salt Lake City proposal, would make it possible to care for the men, to give them the treatment best calculated not only to free them from disease, but to restore them to normal healthy citizenship. The American Legion Weekly has this picture to The gravity of the situation ia Utah of the disabled service men who need hospital attention is only now bei:ig recognized, largely as a result of the pleas before congress of the American Legion that an appropriation of $35,000,000 is urgently required for a .hospitalization program to care for these men. State officers of the legion and the directors of the public health service have been cognizant of the need for action if these men who lost their health in the service of their country are to be given tlie chance for rehabilitation which congress has talked so much about. They have mentoralized congress, they have written hundreds of letters reporting general conditions, making pleas in individual cases. And there has been an improvement in the pro- paint: vision for the care of these men. But today - It', yt GENERAL FUND Cash on hand as per statement, January 1st, 1920 3 9,366.45 Receipts during year 1920 92,372.78 Overdrawn 20,425.17 per pound of temperature at furnace or enRECEIPTS in the average Cash on 1920 hand, 1st, $ 9,366.45 January plant, for every ton of coal consuuir rd from a third to a half of the heat Electric system (does not include $470.81 it contains is stolen by the products applied on light, water and Bewer exof combustion and dissipated into the tensions) 29,634.10 Water department (does not include $356.33 atmosphere. loss the The other up channey, applied on light, water and sewer exnamely that due to unconsumcd fuel 7.446.14 tensions) in the products of combustion, is Taxes 8.965.00 seriousidea old so The not usually that a smoky stack is a sign of tre- Justice fines and fees 1.799.00 mendous wgste is not always true. Licenses 5.110.15 In fact, whether the gases leaving Cemetery ......... ......... ....... 500.00 a chimney are smoky or smokeless Electric service 227.00 deposits is no indication at all as to the effiKent and amusements 182.90 ciency with which the fuel is conducts of combustion fuel burned, and tbe which they leave tlie ter the stack. Thus, uncon-sume- No matter how fuel is consumed and no matter what kind of fuel is burned, whether solid, powdered, liquid or gaseous, the biggest loss is always due to the heat energy wasted up the chimney. In this connection is might le well to quote this very conservative statement from Bulletin 205 issued by the United States Bureau of Mines: "In thr average boiler plant 35 per cent of the Heat in the coal burned under the boilers is lost with the of tvary. stack gases- - This --Jr-out one hundred tons of cm) burned ui,- der the boilers the toaiJjUfsUjMfWrup the stack, kflas loss that can he grestlv reduced, snd every effort should be made to do so." The loss up the chimney, which is always thr largest individual loss in any plant, depends for its magnitude on three factors. They are, in order of importance: First, excess afr in the irodiirts of combustion; second, temperature of the products of combustion; third, amount of tinronsum-c- d furl in the products of combustion. The excess air in the produrts of combustion results in loss greater than that from any other source, kind of fuel requires a definite amount of air to burn it, the exact epiantity depending principally upon the ratio of its carbon and hydrogrn. "When considering coal, for example, the principal constituent is carbon, very jound of which requires twelve pounds of air to completely consume or oxidire it. All air that is used above thii amount is known as excess air, and when supplied in greater quantities than is nerrssary to meet the particular conditions of the furnace in which the furl is burned, an unnecessary burden is immediately "placed on the temperature possibilities of the furnace and the amount of fuel consumed to accomplish a desired result increased in proportion. Air Most Important Even in fairly good practice about twenty-fiv- e tons of air is used to hum ont ton of coal, and in the more 1oorIy ojicrated plants this amount is often doubled. Twenty-fiv- e tons represents a lot of air. Under normal conditions it occupies a spare nearly sixteen thousand timrs as big as the coal which it consumes. If this amount of air were contained in a pipe with one square foot cross sectional area, it would hare to be long rnough to extend nearly from New York to Baltimore. Stated in another way, if the floor of a room were covered with coal to a depth of one foot, the ceiling would have to be three miles high in order for the room to contain as much air as is generally used to burn that amount of fuel. The fact that so much air is consumed in burning one ton of coal is not realized by the firemen, and the important relation which this huge inass bears to fuel economy is generally not given sufficient thought by his superiors. Although air costs nothing, and is available in unlimited quantities, when used to burn fuel in excess of what is required, as is the case in the average plant, it becomes one of the most expensive raw ma- Of the City of Price, Utah, For the Year Ending With December 31, 1920. am FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 192! OYER BY F. F. UEHLING In Manufacturers News, New York City j. FINANCIAL STATEMENT WASH. OECURES USTDIH EXPERT The high cost of fuel, therefore, the principle incentive to provides sa e it, and the greater the cost the greater will he that incentive. The two principal factors which enter into the cost of fuel are labor and transportation. Its prire to the will be governed by thrte two charges, plus whatever additional will permit the charge competition mining interests to add. As our re' sources are depleted mining will he' rome more difficult, and as production moves farther away from con sumption, transportation charges are bound to increase- - The price of fuel will, therefore, advance from year to year until finally it will he cheaper to make artificial furl, such as alcohol. In all probability, however, the cheapest furl for our principal nerds, as long as it lasts, will be that which can be gotten out of the ground in ready to ur form. That is why it should be made to last as long as the practice of through possible economy. However, since the price of furl in the future does not seem to Interest the present generation, the of unueressary waste elimination should prrhaps even be enforced by law for the benefit of posterity. FRIDAY. UTAH-EVE- LT Interest J"'" Transfer to general fund for money spent in!ff?vin enlarging, perfecting and adding to the present water sys- in Price roehtemLmjin!y on hand, January 1st, 1921..... Total 4,000.00 500.00 20,500.00 534.41 9.457.83 3,774.03 $ 83.46G.03 of Carbon, ss I, George E. Ockey, city Utah- - do hereby lertify the a f c,?unty' tru and correct report of the receipts disfrj!SmiLfIbe $ 29,990.43 SdinV 1 Tby the city records, for the year Jj11 In witness whereof, I have set my A92.? hand and the seal 3lst of said city this 15th day of Januarv, 1921. $29,990.43 tah-Count- y ? $ 18,967.69 ,SPAT1 GEORGE E. OCKEY, City Recorder of Price, Utah- - Ina inued |