Show I TUE BIG PUMPIN PLANT u Description and Views of It as Established for Supplying Water to the Companies of I This Count Four Monster Water T rowers Lehi Sept 19he big pumping I plant at the outlet of Utah lake In now completed the four big pumps ure all in working order the cement has been put In to hold the machinery in place nnrl all ht In readiness to be officially tested and turned over to the bourd of canal presidents by tho contractors Messrs Gardner and Ingalls It Is the five Inches In diameter but as a great deal of mud and gravel I caused by dredging the river Is going through the pumps the horsepower required Is so j great that the motor pulleys have been reduced temporarily to twenty Inches Another unique feature la I the fact that j the water after It leaves the pumps goes through the Salt Lake City Water and Electric Power companys plant at I I t J a a m I 9 x I r t i 1 t + xtimn a ml 4 c J I I i President Angus M Cannon largest pumping plant in the West and means salvation to the majority of the farms of Salt Lake county The < plant > consists of four centrifugal double suction pumps of the Byron I Jackson type four type C Westing housc Induction electric motors of 100 hor epower each one vaccum pump one No 1 centrifugal pump and one T5horsopowor I motor Each pump oc the Jordan Narrows which generates the power with which the pumps are run The electric current Is stepped up at the powerhouse to 16000 volts and la transmitted to the pumping plant about twelve miles where It Is again transformed to 500 volts through three 10 K W transformers which are equal to 330horscpower From the transfoiinerhouse the current Is conducted con-ducted by three large wires to the mo torroom where it Is distributed to the several motors The plant is about > GOO t f r 1 I i 3 I I ty 41 7 + N J1 1 1 f i a 1vts l J I P I I 1 v 1 I Chief Engineer W W Ingalla cupled an entire car In transmission I and the erection of a special derrick In unloading The pump as Hhown In the I photograph Is nine feet in diameter and the outlet measures fortyeight Inches In diameter Each of hit arms or Inlets I In-lets < meiffcure thirty Inches Jn diameter diame-ter In the Interior of the pump Is a mechanism similar to SL paddle waterwheel water-wheel which being hollow in the center cen-ter draws the water in through the Hides and by its centrifugal motion forces the water out by nn under discharge dis-charge Gravel and mud goes through without apparent Injury to the pump and even fish come out unharmed Each pump when running at its normal nor-mal capacity requires 100horsepower and discharges 100 cubic feet of water per second The big pull directly attached at-tached to each pump Is I six feet In diameter andmakes 200 reolutlons per minute Each motor pulley Is twenty 1 I yards from the lakes outlet A 4 new rhannel has been cut for the river and II the pumps placed directly In the channel chan-nel on a platform built on piles as abase a-base A tight dam is constructed I across the river and the water Is forced through this dam the pumps raising the water In the river at their outlet about three feet higher than It Is at the Inlay As the lakes level becomes lower the difference In the levels will bo Increased A halfdozen large gates jut west of the pumps prevent the water from flowing back Into the lake but may be raised when the lakes level 1 I Is higher and let the river take its natural nat-ural How At the time the first two pumps were Installed In the early part of last month tho rivers flow was but a little more than was necessary for the farmers farm-ers culinary purposes An official I measurement made today gives the cam 1r th i I I I nfr Iu v f7M Q7 r l t r yr rl YI l rrrl wr r of + o a U T r fn r L r I r Superintendent James H Gardner s lakoc level as < three feet nine Inches below compromise point and Mr Jonas HpldGTVoriht who has taken the measurements meas-urements for the past three yearn says that If It weriTiot for the pumps the bed of thc river would be practically dry ahd that yesterday and today the Mater would have been flowing from the river I Into the lake The pumps arc now supplying water for from 20000 to 30000 acres of land which would be I practically worthless were It not for the Utah akr water I and It Is I estimated that the partlnl saving of the beet crop the making of a third crop of alfalfa and the saying of trees hi Salt Lake countthis Jienson has almost paid for the pumps und had it been Installed In the qarly prim It would have paid for ItfMf twice over In tbp Increased mount of farm products Many farmers farm-ers In thr ijoulh part of Salt Lake valley val-ley left the past two seasons for other localities and so many = others were preparing pre-paring to leave that the district I would have > tone become depopulated but because be-cause of the pumps next year the grain Will mature three rops of bay are guaranteed and tlrstclass Ptands of beets arc awurcd and forms In general I hove nil advanced fully r > 0 per cent in value and Salt Lake City was saved from a court derive which almost meant a alor famine I Birhrtp Aiehloald Gardner advocated tlc pumping idea many years ago but last February when others began to lake m Interrst In hisproposition and his pluns were about to be matured hn died rtls son James II Gardner supeilntcndunt uf the Lcbl sugar factory fac-tory Wen tool the matter up more for the sake of his fathers mime than with the Idda of flimnclal gain and Interested Interest-ed President Angus M I Cannon and others in time matter J Fcwson Smith Jesse Fox both civil engineers Thomas Page Bishop Sedclon and others then became Interested Chief Engineer M W Ingillfi of the Utah Sugar company became associated with Mr Gardner und llialijih I the latter part of May they Induced President Angus 1L 1 Cannon Can-non W W Fltgoruld and Samuel Seddcn as the presidents of the South Jordan Canal company the East Jordan Jor-dan Canal company and tin Salt Lake and Jordan Canal company respectively respective-ly I to sign contracts for the pumps Salt Lake City will undoubtedly become a Joint owner In the plant soon now that It has a legal tuxnctlon = and It I IH confidentially expected that the Norlh Jordan Canal company seeing the grout advantage 1 will soon come In making a Joint and equal ownership by the live Interested companion Fear is expressed by 1 sam that L the lakes supply may become exhausted and the records show that UH level has been lowered right Inches since the pumps commenced working u month ago But friends of the pumping scheme say that Its level may be taken ta-ken down for or six feet In a season and that It will lUl up again during the winter and with this plan the lake may successfully be used as a reser volr It has a ourfuco of about 375 square miles It Is j now nanny four fee below compromise point The pumps can lower It four or six feet lower which would make of It a reservoir eight or ten feet deep with a surface fifteen by twentyfive miles so that when an extra wet season comes no water need run to waste all of which Messrs Gardner and Cannon claim gives to Salt Luke county the best water wa-ter righ In Utah They also claim that but onefourth of the lakcr supply Is used for Irrigation while threefourths IH lost by evaporation To lower tin lako will lessen the lakes area and thus a big percentage of water will be suved To make a reservoir of the lake hv means of dykes Is out of the question ques-tion It would require a million of mon e to erect dykes that the t Ice flows would ev not demolish and were they eroded the soil is 1 of such a nature that the seepage out of the lake would be s Brent as the Inflow Somo work yet as remains lo he done In dredging the have a the may river so that pumps sufficient supply to feed from but four teams are rapidly lowering the chan visitors nel to this end Numerous have Inspected the plant and all arc loud In their praises of the vast proJect pro-Ject The contractors have been justly the short time consumed congratulated on sumed In the plants Installation Special Spe-cial I designs and patterns were ncces the because of their for pumps ot sarv immense size and low lift yd < the pumps were ordered made delivered for nnd two of them installed ready service within fifty days from the dale of signing the contract The names of Frank P Kelsey > engineer 1 engi-neer for the canal presidents Frank Langsion In charge of the Inslallallou of the plant and T I 13 Daniols the power companys electrician also deserve de-serve credit for the pluntn success S W ROSS S of n JY t L r1T a w rc r < 2 Jt jWt Sl V J W V r rtf1 v j 1 la r t1 r N + l fl1 J r Y ti4l 9 iI il 1 T 0 r 5t lr l i j t m fl appear = f tt 1 i T rj y iT J yyy f j j rr4 t r + br N1 S A r tIr r The two photographs show three of tho four pumps In position the other being in tho shadow of the building All the pumps and machinery ma-chinery nro being rapidly covered to protect them from the weather r |