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Show Friday, September 97i THE OGDEN POST CHANGING FKOM OLD TO NEW GAS PLANTS BIG JOB The Ogden Post W. P. ErrERSON, Editor Member Utah State Press Association Member National Editorial Association. Published each Friday by The Of1 den Post Printing and Publishing company, 2128 Kiesel avenue, matter OcEntered as second-clas- s tober 17, 1D27, at the post office at Ogden, Utah, under the Act of March M 3. 1879. Subscription Price: $2.00 per Year. Telephone. 365 L EDITORIAL Spe There Is a "Notice eial Taxes" published in this issue of The Post that marks the beginning of a new era in the handling of city fi nances, so far as the collection of special improvement taxes is concern-ed. The law which provides for the col lection of special improvement taxes has been ignored untiit it is estimated, that there is now owing to the city more than $350,000 in taxes and as much more in interest and penalties. Some of this tax and interest has been owing the city for more than twenty years. During that time the people have been paying the interest to those holding the warrants and bonds which were issued to cover the expense of tho improvements, and guaranteed by , . W-. the city. Neglect on the part of the city of- ficials to enforco the laws governing the collection of this tax has added to the tax load of those citizens who have paid this tax, and also, to the load of all other taxpayers. Sino it was determined by the city commission to collect this tax, interest and penalties, those in arrears have been notified, and more than 20 per cent of those whose names were included in the list as originally prepared have paid their obligations. Those who do not pay on or before October 7th will have the tax claim against their prop- erty sold at auction, and the salei will be a lien against the property a cloud on the title which can not be cleared until the amount has been paid. It is understood that this publica-- . tion made today is tho first of some ,, ten publications which will f ppear from time to time. The amount of the tax advertised in this list is the amount of interest and penalties $30,891.32, making a total of $85,334.73. From the above it will be seen that if past city administrations had done their duty, and attended to the affairs of the city as they should have done, this interest and penalties, aggregating hundreds of thousands of dollars, would have been saved to the tax-payers. The present city administration is to be commended for their action in this matter. Succeeding administrations will do well to follow the example they have set : $34-543.4- . 1, Let the People Have the Land ?j The most sensible plan for the disposition of unappropriated government lands that has yet been advanced is that made by Ell F. Taylor, receiver of the United States land, office at Salt Lake. The plan advanced by Registrar Taylor calls for the' enactment of a act, under which homesteaders would not be required to live on their land, and the sale of the public domain into private non-reside- nt ownership. Mr. Taylor declared that if sale of public lands was permitted, 13,000,000 acres of the 25,000,000 acres of un- reserved, unappropriated public lands in Utah could be placed on the tax rolls of the state and turned into profitable development. The surface sale value of the 194,000,000 acres of vacant, unappropriated lands in the 11 public land states of the west is more than $310,000,000. Government ownership of land, now that the golden eggs have been garnered for the benefit of the whole country, is proving itself a liability to the general government, and there are those, including' President Hoover, who would willingly turn over the remnant to the public land states for administration. State ownership, under restricted ownership and bureaucratic control, would be worse than government ownership. The United States became rich and powerful simply because; in the early days the states were given the land and the people were allowed to perfect title to all of it. By a nonresident homestead act, allowing a citizen to acquire large acreage of desert or mountain land from the government, would soon dispose of most . of the unappropriated lands, and put them on the tax rolls where they belong. There is naught so harmful to a state as pauper landlord and that is just what state or government ownership amounts to. . 1 They Were Giants In Those Days According to a bright news reporter covering the United States-Utorado river suit, now on trial in Los Angeles, an early day scout, "Buckskin Mac, testified that during frontier days he made an expedition down the Colorado river from Julesburg, Colorado. Surely "Buckskin Mac? must be an early-da- y scout very, very early when one is reminded that Julesburg is located out on the plains about 150 miles east of Denver. We were at one time well acqunnit-e- d with the man who moved Pike's rom Denver down to Colorado J1 Springs, and now we would love to meet this scout who cut three or four hundred miles off the head of the Colorado river, and, incidentally, must have moved the entire Rocky Mountain range west 150 miles. a. ! ,'1 ; If 't stations and regulator stations. This type of valve lends itself readily to distribution work on account of its compactness, tightness and ease of operation. As a protection against soil corrosion, one coat of coal tar priming and two coats of coal tar asbestos impregnated paint was applied to the pipe. Where it went under street car crossings it was embedded in concrete composed of sand and ce ment, as a protection against elec trolysis. In addition to this loop, a line was laid down Main street to serve the office buildings in the business district Numerous three and four-inc- h laterals from this loop have been laid to reach industrial consumers, our policy being to serve all large consumers wherever possible from the I. II. P. system without imposing a load on the low pressure system. Tho old high pressure system was in such a location that it would not fit in with the new I. II. P, loop as an integral part It was not thought advisable either, to carry 25 pounds on it from a standpoint of leakage so to natural gas after the change-ove- r it was converted to low pressure and every low pressure main crossing over it was tied into it the old high pres sure line thus forming a large low pressure feeder which fortunately lay in parts of the city needing just such a line. Cast iron mains now being laid are made of plain end, horizontally sand sections being cast pipe, two bronze welded at the Provo, Utah, States Cast Iron ?lant of the Pacific company, these double lengths being joined with dresser couplings. A great deal of thought was given to the problem of reducing leakage after natural gas was turned on. It was decided to use both steam and oil vapor to maintain the mains and joints in their same state as when manufactured gas as being served. After the gas passes the lasl regulator In the city gate stations sufficient steam is admitted to saturate it with water vapor. A slight amount of oil vapor is already in the gas due to passing through the Acme gas cleaner which employs gas oil as a scrubbing medium. In addition to this oil vapor an oil fog is added to the gas stream. A description of this oil fog device may prove interesting. Gas oil is heated and sprayed by gas pressure in a closed chamber, condensed to a fog by meeting a stream of gas, the heavy particles of oil scrubbed out centri-fugaland the remainder admitted to the line. These are designed by the Western Gas Construction company following the experiments conducted at Grand Rapids, Michigan. In each regulator station there is also an oil fog device to augment those in the city gate stations. These vaporise the oil by gas pressure only, and are a copy of those used in Grand Rapids. These have a capacity of about of a gallon of gas-o- il per twenty-fou- r hours. It is proposed to replace these with the type used in the city gate stations should their capacity prove insufficient. Later this fall leakage surveys will be made to determine the necessity of leak clamps for the cast-iro- n and steel mains. Same System in Ogden The same procedure was followed at Ogden for preparng the system for natural gas except that only two city h gate stations using four and regulators and meters were designed with proportionally smaller sized I. II. P. loop and regulator stations. It is planned to remove all meters, fill the case with oil until the diaphragms dip a quarter of an inch and replace. This will prevent the shrnk-ag- e and stiffening of the leather, preventing in a large measure fast meters and postpone the replacement of diaphragms. When changing from manufactured gas of 400 b.tu per cubic feet to natural gas of 1000 b.t.u., there must of of all necessity be a appliances. Salt Lake City was divided into eleven sections so that consumers in any one section would not be inconvenienced more than thirty-si- x hours by. lack of adjustment. This sectioning was accomplished by special dresser couplings of our own design. These couplings had divided center rings with flanges between which were inserted a blind plate. Gaskets were shellacked to these flanges to facilitate the removal of plates when sections were turned These together after the change-ove- r. couplings were placed in the lines and are intended to remain there permanently so that at any time a leakage test may be run on a section. Bleeders were erected at all dead ends of the sections so that the incoming natural gas could drive out the manufactured gas. These bleeders were mads of h pipe twenty feet long equipped with screens on the upper ends and stop cocks on the lower ends. A pressure connection and water gauge were provided so that a constant back pressure could be maintained on the mains. A force of one hundred and thirty men were recruited and put through a school of appliance adjustment. About twenty-fv- e men who had been through the change-ove- r at Denver last summer were available, and formed with our own fitters the nucleus of the organization. Each man was the ordinary taught how to appliances commonly found, using principally the Anderson & Forrester adapter, first used in Denver and since then widely adopted. Adjustable spuds could not be screwed back to pass the correct amount of gas without rvduc-m- g the gas velocity to such a that sufficient primary air couldpoint not be introduced. These tips were accordingly cut off with a hacksaw and the cap reamed out and an adapter inserted. A survey of gas burning appliances was made only in the business district. A general survey of domestic appliances was not made on account of the 10-in- ch Notice of Sale for Special Taxesof Sale for ' (Continued from page 1.) 12-fo- ot widespread use of adapters, thus sav ing a large sum of money. On September 20 gas was turned Into section one, and ten crews fef adjusters were started out. These crews were made up of one foreman, two special men and ten adjusters. Each crew took one block and adjusted all Tanges and storage water heaters. Special men adjusted Instantaneous heaters, all automatic equipment and all troublesome or obsolete equipment A warning card was previously mailed to each consumer warning them that natural gas would arrive in their section on a certain date and gave directions for appliance opera- tion with their appliances until our men should arrive. Consumers were requested not to use water heaters nor ovens on ranges until adjustment had been made. A map showing the sections and the order in which gas was turned in was printed in all newspapers. The business district was converted Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, gas being turned in at 11:30 p. m. Saturday night so that gas equipment of the newspapers could be converted without inconvenience to them. Six hundred consumers were served from the high pressure gas line of the old system through individual house regulators. Manufactured gas was displaced in these lines by natural gas and appliance adjustments made as soon as this was completed. Pressure was dropped to four ounces, regulators blocked open with shipping soon pins at once, and then removed as convenienteand the service line tied together again. The procedure was followed at Ogden except that the crew was somewhat smaller, and the town divided into only two districts. for both The entire change-ovtowns required twenty-fou- r working er six-inc- gas-burni- at the state fair, with thrTT" of dairy cattle: one holstei ed J .nd on. re-port- s go,, u m.j8 ,. this, arrangements will Mbit about club calves. win twenty-fiV- e u wn . hSft9-- Considerable interest Meanwhile a to by venous farmersis sl 0. vious years. had been going forward since lr will also be represent- - ranging to send entries Jaignwith the result that we are now Weber county installing conversion furnace burners and gas fired boilers at the rate of thirty a day. house-heatin- cam-- g of." 7? TmrADQj sty tJJOI Farm Bureau Notes clubs girls of Weber counThe their seasons work at exhibit will ty the county high school on Sturdiy exSeptember 28, at 1:30 p. m. The in the sewing hibit will be displayed rooms of the school and each club from the different communities will have an exhibit The best will then be sent to the state fair to be held in Salt Lake City, October 5 to 12, 4-- H !? A I A Fait of many unique ! Fi r. rfc f??t offering daily the thrills of a gay carnival circus acts whippet Dog Racing aaa glamorous fireworks. Eight giat days of amusement and education. Come to th I Fairl. . ; jv . .M r club team contest held At the in Weber county high school last Saturday a great deal of skill was shown by the teams of Liberty, Farr West, Wilson, West Weber, Slater-villPlain City and Riverdale. The team winning highest score was Miss Vesta Taylor and Miss Oretta Chugg, 4-- H e, of Farr West, who demonstrated the making of a princess slip. These girls will compete at the state fair with other county teams for the trip to Portland. 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