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Show GARBAGEFUIINACES. The Board of Htalth of Salt Lake Oity Should Consider the Question of ' Cruicating th Garbage. COST OF THE FIERY FURNACE Let a Local Company Organize and Pft. the Work For So Much Fe Ton Four Furnaces for Dan?ert A Salt Lake City steadily continuo the increase of hor population the queaJj tion of how to dispose of her garbage is one of vital importance. To ba aur) the health department daily collect the refuse and carts it to a dumping place and endeavors to keep the streetr clean as possible. Within a short tiin, thu homes of men will be extended oa' all sid.;s beyond the present line of res-' idences. Already petitions ha' reached the health department respecU iug the present dumping places for tha garbage. The people are disposed to kick aud justly, too, about the city per mining the refuse to be deposited iu the immediate vicinity of their hotnes It would seem to advocates of-bealtn. that now is the proper time for the ouV cials to dispose of the garbago in a method more modern thao that ov dumping it out and trusting to watert and atmosphere to act as di.iinfectants. I Almost all cities that are desirous of reducing the death rate and believe inJ strict hygienic measures, have furnaces for the. purposo of burning thegarbnge. i Two such crematories would at present' be sufficient for Salt Lake City. The-machines The-machines consume everything combust-' ible thrown iuto the llames aud m.e alJ' most odorless. ; The cost of the furnaces is J10,0(JT a-piece, and the expense of operating them would be about T per day. Tho' crematory is o arranged that wagon may be driven over its top and the' contents unloaded diroctly into the tire.' Denver is considering tha matter ofi erecting four lurnaces in that crty. How would it do for a home com-' paiiy to organize and erect furnace! for this purpose V In Chicago a comJ, pany owning a furuaee charges tt.bU) per ton for all material disposed of. |