Show the yampa power plant the power plant of the yampa is an example of high efficiency and economical management in the boiler room are four 85 horsepower return tubular boilers working under pounds pressure one duplex snow pump feeds these boilers and another raises feed water to the pump that sup plies the was waste te heat boilers in the ber atory furnaces in the engine room are the following one horsepower allis chalmers corliss engine direct connected to a conners ville blower having a capacity of cubic feet of air per minute one horsepower bullock induction motor belted to a connersville Conners ville blower having a capacity of cubic feet of air per minute one 70 horsepower ideal slide valve engine belted to a connersville Conners ville blower having a capacity of cubic feet of air pet per minute one 75 horsepower ideal slide valve engine direct connected to a volt direct current generator one horsepower slide valve engine direct connected to a volt direct current generator one 30 horsepower rand compressor having a capacity of 75 cubic feet per minute compressing to 80 pounds one horsepower allis chalmers cross compound blower engine with a capacity of cubic feet per minute compressing to fifteen pounds with the exception of the skinner all of the engines are connected to a 16 inch wheeler barometric condenser which maintains almost a perfect vacuum in the cylinders the exhaust from the skinner engine is carried to an open fe edwater heater which raises the temperature of the boiler feed from 54 degrees to degrees almost the boiling point at that altitude and effecting a saving of fuel equivalent to four and one half pounds of steam pressure the coal consumption for the four boilers is only to tons per month A shaft has been sunk on the property to water level to provide the water necessary to run the plant A flow of gallons per minute is obtained which is made ample by means of cooling and reusing re using in the shaft are two cameron sinking pumps and a goulds triplex which raise the water to the tank at the surface from which an aldrich and a goulds triplex raise it to a gallon tank above the plant from which it is distributed by gravity two knowles and one Ca meiron metron pump lare fare also held in reserve for emergencies gen cies the water after being used flows to a cooling tower where it passes over a one fourth inch screen to clean it of chips etc and is then run through a series of perforated troughs which break it into drops and allows it to cool as it falls the condenser water is cooled in a second tower and pumped back to the tank which supplies the condensers to guard against a shutdown shut down from accident to the steam plant connection has been made with the high tension lines of the telluride power company from which horsepower can be derived three water cooled and three oll oil cooled transformers each of kilowatts capacity are provided to step this current from ag to volts A horsepower induction motor moto r direct connected to a volt direct current generator for the haulage system uses telluride power mr C A pringle is general manager of the yampa mr frank murphy is smelter superintendent and mr thomas masi mahln n is master mechanic LEROY A PALMER |