| Show SALT LAKE CITY GETS OXYGEN FACTORY PLANT ALREADY IS IN commission another concern of national activity to locate a manufacturing fac establishment in salt lake city is the linde air products co whose general offices are in new york city ample ground was purchased several months a ago 0 at the corner comer of fourth west and ninth south streets construction was pushed and one of the companas comp anys largest producing properties is now starting operations air is the raw material used to separate air into its various constituents and extract the oxygen a plentiful supply of water and electric power is needed the company has both formerly this intermountain country was supplied through jobbing stocks held in a warehouse at west second south the oxygen itself was extracted from the air in a plant located at denver colorado business in welding and cutting gas grew so rapidly keeping pace with the development of this region 0 that this factory was overloaded under such circumstances and having in view the continued expansion to be expected in the agricultural and mining activities centering in salt lake city and the very fine transportation facilities we enjoy the linde air company decided to replace their local warehouse with a pro plant plant housed in fireproof buildings the new linde plant is housed in three fireproof buildings of most substantial brick concrete and steel construction the main building b is about 80 by 1 00 ft smaller ones house the repair shops and garage the general con tractor was the H W baum co heating plant was installed by hayden long and the electrical work was done by the salt lake electrical supply co all the special machinery has been assembled and tested and continuous operations day and night have already started john hamilton was superintendent of construction and he has turned the plant over to W Z barr the new operating superintendent perin who will direct the activities of about thirty employees the man on the street may not know much more about linde oxygen and prest 0 lite acetylene than that oxygen is the life giving portion of the air we breathe and that acetylene is an excellent illuminating gas giving a very bright white light scientists have shown that if acetylene is burned with compressed oxygen 6 the flame is the hottest known to man one which easil easily y melts an any y metal modern industry has been quick to seize upon this as a most useful tool and uses this oxyacetylene oxy acetylene flame to weld or join metals metal to each other where once we had the blacksmith and his forge rge we now behold the welder in goggles with a tiny needle flame and some welding wire oxyacetylene oxy acetylene flame works miracles since the oxyacetylene oxy acetylene flame joins any of the metals it hhas has not the limitations of forge welding which works best with wrought iron and therefore large quantities of the two machine boiler and pipe gases are used in modern shops aps ops and in the repair shops and railway yards of ther the country in welding instead of riveting or bolting toge together furthermore parts of steel cast iron brass bronze or aluminum ther be used as a most ef more the same hot flame may focient chent cutting torch and here is where the passer passerby by most often ten notes its spectacular success whenever a metal bolt mus must t be structure truc ture from a sky scraper to a frozen dismantled or removed the oxyacetylene oxy acetylene flame will burn arks its way through the metal with a shower of whit hot sp sparks hacksaw hack saw with using g minutes where it used to take hours OT or sledge lilze like so so many of the nations industries acetylene gas is the child of water power and electricity it is in fact made from carbide a product of the electric furnaces at niagara from the opposite pole of low temperature comes oxygen oxygen is one of the things which cant be done of course oxygen gas is all about us in the air we breathe but it is mixed with four times as much nitrogen and small quantities of several other gases A few scientists were pretty sure these could be separated if air were cooled down to a temperature where it would be converted into a liquid but their brothers who know all about physics had assured the world th atair was one of the perfect gases it always was a gas ant always must be thirty five plants and many warehouses so oxygen remained a laboratory curiosity until the impossible was done and liquid air came forth many of the older readers of this paper remember the stir which the announcement caused and how the chautauqua Chatau qua lecturers uncovered a lot of new and interesting b experiments by us ing liquid air but before this material was produced ini im any a ny quantity prof linde conducted a long series of painstaking experiments crowned with success at the beginning of the present century the linde air products company now operates thirty five plants throughout the united states in each of which oxygen is extracted from liquid air by the ton compressed into steel cylinders and distributed to users from no less than fifty nine warehouses this newest plant in salt lake city is also capable of separating nitrogen argon and neon and bottling them up for use it is to give the best possible service to their customers in in the utah and the adjoining territory that has brought the linde air products company factory here the experience peri ence of the company has always been that once an industry becomes acquainted with the great utility of the oxyacetylene flame in welding and cutting metals its use constantly and rapidly grows by new applications suggested on all sides they therefore are confident that more linde oxygen and prest 0 lite acetylene than ever before will be absorbed in this region region in the mining industry in repairing motor cars and railroad rolling 6 stock and the machines used on the fan farms ns mills and factories |
