Show I I r WORK ORK STARTED UN ON THE TilE Bifi RESERVE PUNT PLANT Actual Cost of Construction of or Utah Light Railway Com Conr Power Building is Estimated at ELEVEN THOUSAND HORSE HORSEPOWER HORSEPOWER POWER TO BE PROVIDED C Contractors Get Instructions to Complete the Big Task in inas inas inas as Short a Time as Possible and Also to Avoid void A Delays ONE PERSON IN CONTROL y have hare boon been b n let and nad cc ae c I CO C work ork has been b e started on the new neY big hla reserve power plant tobe to tD tolie lie be constructed for fur the Utah Light A C company and within a fey few month months Salt Snit Lake will Trill have haye one ODe of the very err largest plants plant ot of e th this kind In to the vest et The actual cost coat of the under uDder undertaking undertaking taking It I estimated nt lit The plant will provide over oyer horse hone horsepower power poY r It will be located on the Joe Jar Jardan Jordan dan river near the present transformer station CatIon and team steam plant of the com eom company pang pany pon The Tb contract has been beon let to Wes Well Church Kerr Co a firm of ot New York engineer and contractor to construct and complete the plant ready read for tor operation In tho the shortest possible time Um consistent with the tho standard of ot work required It H W V Stover tho the representative of ot the th company com pan who has bas been rounding out the details and an getting tile the con construction construction work under way Vay loft left for tor New Neti Ne NewYork r York Tork last It night IX IL A the resident engineer Is III going ahead with the work O 0 A the Utah Light Railway Hallway olec olee engineer will look after the tho construction con construction of the plant It JB is expected that It will be completed and in IA op operation operation early next spring Provide Continuous Supply lia This plant i is III being Installed for rot the sole purpose of providing an absolute absolutely ly continuous continuo supply of ot electricity for lighting power and street railway PUt pui poses In Salt Lake and Ogden The company now new has sufficient generating s e capacity elty In water power plants to handle han handl Ue dle dl its Ita lt regular demands for tor power and this enormous team steam plant will be held beld In lit reserve at all times to pick plok up and carry the load loed In case ease of ot failure allure of or supply from any of the other of ot power Executive and operating officers of ot the Utah Light LI ht Railway company have leave for a great many years ears recognised the Importance of or a continuous supply of ot electrical power to Salt Lake and Ogden Important Contracts Contract Let LM Practically all aU of ot the tho Important con eon contracts trade tracts for apparatus on which there thero might be delay dela in delivery have been let and the work of excavation Is well wader under way wa waTh The Th tint first unit tart of ot this reserve steam plant will consist nt of oC an 11 power generator which will alt be b connected directly to and driven bY bv bYa a s mammoth steam storm turbine lne capable of delivering continuously electrical ot trl cal horsepower This Thle combined unit Is te the th largest t piece of ot o electrical gen generating en ener er apparatus between the Mla Mis river and the coast It will wilt be bl provided ed with the necessary pumps condensers and auxiliary apparatus to tomake tomake make it one of the most efficient steam plants in the country Six boiler units o of ot sufficient capacity to provide the necessary n ry steam at earn for tor thin generator will sort willbe willbe be Inn installed tailed In a building separated 1 from the main building by a fir Ins wan watt An Interesting feature of this plant Continued on Page Two WORK ORK STARTED ON BIG RESERVE PlANT Continued From Page One will bo be the expense which has haa been necessary to handle handlo the tho coal coat automatically automatically automatically cally from tram the time it leaves the tho car until It reaches the tho ash pile Tho The steel battleship cars of ot tho the railroad compa companies companies companies nies will be run on an elevated trestle and dropped Into concrete storage bins bin From this point tho the coal will wilt bo be car carried carried carried ried by link bolt belt conveyors to storage hoppers above tho the boilers hero Here It Is II dropped as required Into the smoke consuming stokers These stokers are entirely automatic In their action and feed the coal Into tho the boilers in ex exactly exactly the correct amount to supply the necessary steam If the tho amount of ot steam required r by tho the engine should Increase Increase or decrease for tor any reason the rate of or supplying the coal would be changed accordingly almost before the tho change In pressure could be de do detected detected tecte d on the gauges Conveyed to the Dump Damp From the stokers tho the ashes fall Into tho cars car of ot an industrial railway system system tem by means of ot which they thoy the are con conveyed conveyed eyed to the dump A full condensing equipment will be bo provided and the pumps pump used In connection with this apparatus are so effluent eUI ent that within ono pound of ot an f t vacuum will willbe willbe willbe be secured The ther the T n dynamic prin principles principles of oC the tho steam aro are such that Its sufficiency Increases with the Increased vacuum and the thousands of oC dollars which are aro spent to procure procuro this almost perfect vacuum are aro re returned returned returned turned by tho the decreased cost of oC tho the coal consumed In order to secure an adequate foun foundation foundation foundation dation for the power house bouse to contain this steam and electrical generating equipment It will be necessary to drive several hundred piles on the tho site of the structure These piles will be loe capped with a bed of or con concrete concrete I crete which will Insure an absolutely rigid foundation on which to erect the tit structure and set s t the machinery The rhe building will have a steel framework and brick brik walls walla |