Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-04-11 | Page 5 | Does Away with Smoke

DOES AWAY WITH SMOKE New Consumer Tried by Utah Light and Power Company The Utah Light and Power company made an experiment that was pronounced pro-nounced successful yesterday afternoon after-noon with a new smokeconsumer at Its gas plant on Fourth West street Themethod of the new consumer Is to cause all the coal in the furnaces to Bs consumed and thus there Is little or no smoke to be thrown f The coal to be used Is crushed and forced by pressure from a feeder through a pipe Into I the furnace where Ignites suddenly ands and-s almost completely consumed A M Grant who put the consumer In opera ion claims that It1 save from 25 to 50 per cent of the coal used or