Show rt NT b THE GREATEST IN I AMERICA MERI C CI Special to t The Lent Lehi Utah Utah May a Y ur corre correspondent s was wa yesterday ye shown the im improvements improvement improvements provement being being mode made mUe at the Utah sugar factory I Instead ea of saying sIng im improvements improvement provement it i would d be more proper to designate d at the te work noV now being eing dope by saying te t rebuilding of Qt the plant laft for there is hardi h a L piece pl e of ef old ma machinery m machinery chinery chiner that has baa ba been ben left lefin leftIn in its it former forr place end and in addition to that heto hereto heretofore heretofore fore in use us the Improvements improvement now be being being being ing made will wm require 40 tons tn of structural structural tural turl steel and am 1400 tons more of ma machinery machier machinery chinery chier Besides Beide this three tee new n w build buildings buld buldin buildIngs ings in are in the coarse conree of erection and the west wall wal of the the main structure has been ben extended about thirty feet and an additional story stor added In which will wi be b located the two mammoth va Ya vacuum vacuum pans vans vansAl All Al of the wooden woden frame work has h been taken out and replaced with Structural truc tural turl steel and in lieu leu of the th lUmber flooring cement floors foot are ar being put in inIn inIn InIn In fact there ther will wl be b comparatively no wood wo in m the entire building making it absolutely fireproof and ad doing away with wih an expensive fire tr extinguishing system But in case cs there may be b a ai i necessity for fr the use Ui of water wat r two huge huc tanks tank on the roof rf will wJ be e con constantly constanty constantly stanty filled with wih water These two items Hems alone the use une Ul of steel supports and girders and the cement flooring represent the use f 40 tons of steel stel I for the structural work and ah ati expenditure expenditure of for tor the cement floors Capacity Increased The new improvements being made nade mae will wl treble the plants capacIty but to todo todo todo do this every part Dat has had to be in increased increased creased cra and strengthened To give some idea of these thes changes the thE old crystallization and filter Alter fler tk tanks have been beeh ben remodeled into LU additional car carbonization cr carbonization tanks each ech having a capac capacity capacIty ity iy of 76 cubic fe fet feet L Instead of the theold theold old and slow ow process proe of crystallization there will wl be b eighteen new rotary crys crystall crystal I tall tal ers n each ech of which weighs seven seventeen sven seventeen teen t en tons ton a send id d has ha a R capacity of SOO 80 the cubic feet feet This new process keeps syrup moving continually causing cusing it to much quicker and leaving much less le syrup than tan did the the old process In the te old mill ml there thore were three sets of presses pre and a set of two tuo mechanical filters flers The third tir set of cresses Dresse laos lias lia been ben abandoned or transferred to the first fr and second set st and ad the two me mechanical chani filters fler have been increased to seventeen 1 Another lime kiln kili kit with aith double double the capacity of the old one has nas ha been added for with wih the increased con consumption consumption of beets bet there ther will wi be b three times as a much lime and carbonic acid I gas g used u d in the te purification s ton of the he juice I Two immense immes tanks tank with a combined combine capacity of Qt gallons glons have been erected in the northeast corner corer of the building and into int these will wi be d the juice from the Springville and 1 Bingham Junction auxiliary plants plant Bigham Four new evaporators wIth double the t thI I capacity of the old ones one will wl assist in converting the juice into syrup gr I im immense immense will wi then pass into the eighteen mense mentioned above Handled Handed Automatically rom the time the beets leave the sheds till tl they are converted into sugar and sacked n the sugar room the handling of all al the different products is done automatically and ad with the use of of machinery Screw conveyors will wi carry crr the syrup from the to t the vacuum puns pans and from there to the c which have been increased I ed from fm seven to seventeen Screw con conveyors conveyors v will wm then carry car the te sugar to an immense warehouse that will wi have a railway track on each side and from which ten ears cars rs may be loaded at the same time Ten new boilers bier are being added to the fourteen already in place and these combined will eat UP un D over tons of coal col and four wI tons of coke colte every day da In fact this win will wi bo be the largest steam plant west wet of the Missouri river As A the ashes are ae drawn front from from the fire fre box they will wi be carried carie away a yay in a stream of water water The coal cl will wi be unloaded from i t n elevated track into a bin that will deliver it right at the mouths of I wU delver that the furnaces so that wheelbarrows s tha I and were used both to haul the coal carry cary U away avay the ashes ahe will wi now be disc diSI carded cared The plant plane i l connected cnn with wih the aux auxiliary auxiliary plant at Springville by a pipe pipeline pipeline line and men m n are at work laying laying a sim tUrn similar lne In connect the thO liar ilar line to course lne of erection at Bingham inghan Junc June Junction tion coure These Thee two branches will wi also be concreted ton con ted with the te central plant by private telephone so that at any time the manager manag may know how all aU Is working 1200 Tons Per Day The two branches a ad d tIle the central c plant will have a capacity c for cut cutting cutting each wi ting tons of beets bets each hours and when all al is working smooth smoothly ly the plant at at Lehi Lehl will wi be turning turing out from 2000 to OO bags of sugar be between between between tween each setting of the sun Superintendent Superintend tend nt eh Chief En Ingalls f and Mr M D GUman have charge the improvements lI being made and have a force of about men employ employed ed and when their work is completed the model sugar fac factory factor factory Lehi will present tory tor of wi America America if not in all al the world world |