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Show TEN o THE VOICE OF SHARON SUPPLEMENT Of New . il Power What the Provo Steam What the Provo Steam Station Means to Utah . . . Station Means to Utah r- . . . - Employment of 260 men during process of construction. 1. 1. 2. Employment after plant put in operation of 35 to 40 men. 2. TTY. is With the completion of the new steam plant the power company w ill have a total of 32 stations and three steam generating plants. An additional payroll of $5000 a month or $60,000 a year. Expenditure of between $400,000 and $500,000 for labor, materials and supplies locally. 3. hydro-electr- 4. 5. I 3. Sfe; ic ..V X sA A r. , u S S ' " ct f Wj j 7 M. B. BROWN Chief Engineer iine. I 5. W. E. PIERCE Auditor Construction Story (Continued from page one) and during the construction required heavy bracing and continuous pumping of water which trickled and occasionally poured into the foundations. The intake structure is essentially a pit with a concrete bottom and concrete wells on three sides and a grillage or screenwork of steel on the canal side to prevent trash from being dratvn into the pipe and thence carried through a thirty inch cast iron pipe leading to the circulating water pump located inside the building. This pump circulates the water through the steam condenser and back through a thirty six inch cast iron pipe to the discharge structure which is located on the canal some seventy five feet down stream from the intake. All the water taken from the canal is returned to it again exactly as received with the exception of raising the temperature approximately five degrees Fahrenheit. The excavation for the main structure was carefully planned so that certain portions most essential to the progress of the plant were completed first. These portions were, of course, the foundations for the steel columns supporting the building. Immediately upon completion of the excavation, forms were set and these column foundations were' poured. A contract was let to Ryberg Brotl ers Construction Company, Mr. Ellis Barker, General Superintendent, of Salt Lake City, for this concrete work which was done with such dispatch' and so satisfactorily that all the substructure work 4. Li L DAVID W. IS ARSON Electrical Engineer J. L. JAMESON Project Manager i f I : VERNE CLAWSON General Superintendent t r lx -- Increased taxable wealth. Added use of 75,000 tons of coal per year involving employment of additional men engaged in mining and transporting the coal. Encouragement to new industries on account of ample power supply. Added tonnage for the Provo canyon ra.lroad At the close of 1936 the company's plants will be generating power for 310 communities and its lines are serving a population of almost 420,000. Provo Sand and Gravel Company of Provo. A total of approximately 100 car loads of gravel were used in the construction of the plant and 60 car loads of sand. During July the finishing touches were added to the plant Steel window sash was placed and glass installed. The glazing was done under contract by Gessford Inc. of Provo. 2,300 panes of doable strength ribbed glass were placed during a period of ten days. The turbine room roof, a Johns Manville fifteen was laid by Curtis Zarr of Salt Lake City. Plumbing for the office and locker room was installed by the Nuttall Plumbing Company of Provo. The interior and exterior of the Station was painted, side walks were laid, fences built, and a hundred and one other incidentals completed. Finally the boiler was fired up, steam was generated and the turbine turned over in a trial operation on August 1st, exactly as planned on a cold day in February when the engineers drove their first stakes in a windswept and snow-cla- d field. The work was performed by Utah Power and Light Company under the general supervision of J. L. Jamison, Project Manager, and the direct supervision of Verne Clawson, general Superintendent. Mr. M. B. Brown was the engineer in charge of all engineering and ordering of materials. Dave Isakson, was the Electrical Engineer in charge of all electrical work'; and W. A. Pierce, auditor in charge of all disbursements and accounting. These men and their assistants were responsible for the completion of the job of which they are justifiably J J proud. Ninety five percent of all tthe other labor used on the job was engaged in Provo or the' immediate vicinity. (f'Left to Right Chas. Burton, Asst. Engineer; Leo Adams, Gen. Fore- man; F. E. Anderson, Warehouse; Claude Curtis, Rigger Foreman; Happy" Nourse, Master Mechanic; P. K. Nielsen, Material Man; Sam Robbins, Pipe Fitter. as well as the turbine pedestal contracts were awarded to them, involving a grand total of approximately 2,000 yards of Ca. " ' TP 'J 1 W. f ? -- - - -- t U- t , I i . . 1 -I a t I J r? i '' y concrete. Ryberg Brothers, on a competitive basis were awarded the contract for the erection of the steel superstructure of the Station building. The steel was fabricated by the Provo Foundry and Machine Company and in spite of the fact that the drawings for the steel were in their hands for only a few days after awarding the contract, steel was on the job and erection started by Ryberg Brothers on April 18th. In the meanwhile, excavating and pouring of concrete for the boiler room columns wras being prosecuted with the result that the Combustion Engineering (Corporation, the boiler contract) was able to start the erection of their steel which was furnished and erected on a sub contract to Ryberg Brothers on April 28th. All of the turbine room steel was erected by May 18th and the boiler room steel completed by May 20th. Approximately 220 tons of steel were erected. An analysis of the completed structure reveals the rather unusual fact that there were approximately 1000 members to be designed, detailed and erected, and of this number 900 were dissimilar. During the erection of steel, many other details of construction were carried on: the concrete walls supporting the brickwork wrere poured; the turbine foundations (weight about 800 tons) resembling a moulded table with massive concrete legs extending deep into the ground, were designed and built to support solidly and without vibration the 18,750 K. W. was poured. Immediately following the completion of the structural steel, erection of the boiler proper was started by the Combustion Engineering Corporation, one of the oldest and largest designers and builders of boiler plants in the country. This work was ably carried on under the supervision of Mr. Dehn, the job superintendent. The boiler plant complete, comprising the boiler itself, the forced and induced draft fans, over fire fan, walls, furnace setting, stack, etc., was rushed to completion by July 12th, less than two months from the time the first sling was placed around one of the three immense drums comprising the boilers proper. Starting at about the same time as the boiler erection, the General Electric Company under the field supervision of Mr. Rich started installation of the This major piece of equipment was erected complete by the middle of July and in conjunction with the the condenser and its auxilliaries were installed by the Worthington Machinery Corporation. Another impressive piece of equipment, erected just preceding the turbine and boiler erection was the Gantry Crane which travels on parallel rails sixty feet apart. The rails on a standard railroad guage are four feet eight inches apart. The crane might be likened to a water spider. The body is supported on legs fifty feet long and fastened to the body is the hoist from which hangs the lifting hoo.k, capable of picking up twenty five tons. This crane can and does straddle the whole turbin room building and when the occasion arises for servicing or replacing equipment, drops the lifting hook through removable hatches in the roof and handles various heavy pieces of machinery. If necessary, the same equipment can be raised through the roof hatches, carried beyond the building and lowered to the ground. The crane was used extensively and to great advantage during the installation of all the major equipment in the turbine room. While these various important pieces of equipment were being installed, literally miles of piping and electric wiring were being placed. Concrete floors were being poured. Roofs, sUii ways, platforms, etc., were also being erected. Brick walls were built, the brick being furnished bv the Frovo Brick and Tile Company of Provo. Approximately 160,000 brick were used in the structure. The sand for the mortar as well as all the sand and gravel for the entire job were furnished by the : s turbo-generato- View of site of Provo Steam Plant, April 5, 1936 it w ruyV M y i t l Va View of plant June I 1 L : T l' j,, :1 i 4 ', W - ' fi ? - f ta 't"'- 4Cr..j jj h-- "- ynvT vyr ,;Lrv View of plant construction, May 5, 1936 (Note rapid progress) X 5, 1936 (Showing signs of completion) .v r. 1 -- turbo-generat- i " r, turbo-generato- i - , T i 4 $ r I V,1 ,3 ,t ! j . 5 View of plant July 5,' (A Miracle in Rapid Modeyi Construction Methods) ' |