Show INDEX SHALE EQUIPMENT ARRIVES AT DEBEQUE one carload of the principal machinery equipment for the big plant of the index shale oil company that is being erected on mt blaine arrived this week and on the way here are three other railroad freight cars loaded with other material for the plant says a recent issue of the debeque new era one is coming from the pacific coast loaded with heavy timbers for the main building and ore bins while the two others are coming from colorado springs carrying more machinery unloading of the first car was begun thursday and the contents are rapidly being transported by truck to the company camp the car contained ore cars four tons of rails for the surface tram suction blowers for drawing off the gasses generated in the retort gates for the bins and other accessories as well as the 90 horse power atlas engine that will drive the machinery the engine that will drive the pump to supply the camp with water waler also has been received and installed it raises the water to a storage tank situated in camp and from which it is distributed by gravity to the different places of use in the cars coming are the two 80 horse power boilers the fire brick and other accessories for installing them and the crusher which is of the blake type the shale rock to be handled will not be crushed as fine as some processes demand but the larger pieces of the feed must be small enough to pass through a two inch ring this week a big concrete mixer was delivered at camp and the work started on foundations for buildings and machinery and the force of workers was increased no effort will be spared to push all work with the view of completing the plant early in the spring 0 |