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Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-29 | Page 18 | Largest Electric Mine Hoist is in Illinois

Type issue
Date 1912-09-29
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Largest Electric Mine Hoist is in Illinois
Type article
Date 1912-09-29
Paper Salt Lake Herald-Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 18
OCR Text LARGEST ELECTRIC MINE HOIST IS IN ILLINOIS In III the electric all mine of tho the Chris Chrls- Coal company compan Christopher Ill will vU UIA ho bo installed the largest est mine hoist in America The new hoist is of at the double drum t type pe and will carr carry n nearly ari five tons It will make a thousand trips from a foot depth In seven sc hours 8 The rhe hoist Is driven I b by an horsepower 1110 electric motor No 1 mules are to be used In this mine eliminate d as tj the com company pan also expects to them from Its present I leI r district colliery collier two thirty-two ton six-ton I electric mine locomotives having having- havinga a rating of OC poun pounds s pull at six miles an hour are Included In tho the installation A number of or these locomotives locomotives loco loco- motives are arc arranged for COl tandem op operation operation op- op so 80 that In caso case of oC breakdown substitutions can be bo made All tandem locomotives c can n be bo used either cither as sixton sixton six six- ton gathering gathering- locomotives or twelve- twelve ton main line haulage locomotives A horsepower SO Induction motor will drive the ventilating fan and ond for operating operating- the conveyors con shaker screens picking tables p pumps etc several small Induction motors ranging rang ran In ing from ten to horsepower fifteen will be Installed The Tire current for these latter latter lat lat- ter motors and the air all compressor motor will be reduced b by three fifty kv kv-a. transformers from 2300 to 0 volts
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