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Show TO INSTALL A HEAM PLANT Preliminary Plans Are Perfected. Application for Franchise Will Be Filed With City Monday. Intention is to Bring the Matter Before Be-fore the City Council on Mondaj' Evening. The final meeting of the Incorporators of a company formed for the purpose of Installing a heating system In Salt Lake Ity was held yrsteidn afternoon and the preliminary plans w. re perfected The application for a franchise will bo filed With the City Recorder on Monday morning. morn-ing. With the Int. 'nil. m Of bringing the matter before the City Council at Its next regular meeting. Title of Company. The company Will be known as the Citizens' Cit-izens' Heating anil Power company; and the Incorporators are h II Alrls. K K. Jenkins, A. J. Orem, R. J Evans, c. H. Thompson w . Orem, J. J. Dsynes, J. S Manley, L H Curtis and Joseph N- 1-son. 1-son. The company has been organized bv L. H. Ctiril.x of Bvans, Curtis & Sweet, managers of the American Knlls Canal and 'iler Power company ..f Idaho and In speaking of the company Mr Curtis says: Purpose of Company Tho Installation of a heating stem In Salt l.ak City is right in lin.. with the progress nnd the growth of the city The real estate boom that Is milking lloelf evident on sll sides, the stiffening of prices, and the several sev-eral large transfers that have recently been recorded, the sudden and liberal Investment .f outside capital, all prove that wo are forging ahead, and that Salt l-ako Is destined des-tined to take her place as one of the big cities of the West. More buildings will be built and as tho ell prospers and thrives every modern convenience will come In for Its full share of consideration, both by the landlord and the tenant. I have Investigated central station hooting systems vary thoroughly i nd l find thai the secrot of tho proposition Is to have the plant properly and scientifically Installed It Is our Intention to build a steam heating system for the business district, and a hot wator system for the residence part of th city Hot water, as a rule, cannot be raised alove the second floor successfully, and tho conscoueno Is that steam Is Invariably u.-l In business buildings. Forty Successful Stations. There are perhaps forty successful central station heating systems In the Pnlted states Some of the first plants were Installed over twenty years ago. Including plants at De-rrolt. De-rrolt. Milch . nnd Indianapolis, Irid N 8 irly every one of these planlii were unsuccessful particularly the plants In the cltlea mn- tioncd. and were ultimately abandonee hew-over hew-over at this time. Indianapolis has the finest M'im healing system In th" country, competing compet-ing successfully with two natural gas rom-S rom-S antes. Depends Upon Heating Co. In n recent Issue of the ndlaoapolls News this pap.-r fays that L S. Ayera the proprietor proprie-tor ..f the largest dry goods More in the rlt) Is i r. -.-ting en eight-story fireproof building for his business, and that the building will have no chimneys, d puding entir.-b for it heat on the Merchants" Heating and Power company Thl plant was installed b tho W II Bchott Kngincering and Conatructli n ootnpanj of hicago, hi-cago, and this company has pui In Or rebuilt re-built the majority of th" successful central heating station s stents that are now In operation. ope-ration. Along Original Lines. Mr. Pchott. tho president of the company, hni been repeatedly declared to be an authority author-ity ,.n tv.-ulng. although he is rnpu-l ..n largj electrical construction as well. Ills plants have all ben put In along original lines using now departures In e..n-.tructl n that hae never before been used by any He r engineer The Indianapolis plant is the only Instance In the eounlrv, where a long distance high prcKsure pipe feeds automatically Into tho low pressure mains In tho center of tho system . . Mr S-hott has furnlshd all the Information to tho local company, and has personally r.iir- vayed the territory in question, although threo of his engineers have visited Salt I-ako City during the, past two years Investigating the proposition carefully and g.vlng B8 theil final opinion that a heating system could bo successfully suc-cessfully operated here The local company Is in receipt of numerous letters from owners of heating e terns, and also fn.in llios who are patrons of these systems, and Without exception ex-ception they ore Indorsed most tnlhuslasll- Experimcnts Successful. On account of the first heating systems that were Installed, being unsuccessful, experiments w-ro carried on In the smaller cities for tho sin. pie reason that the Investments would not necessarily 08 so large and the facts nr.. that n number of the smaller places are equipped with heating systems, while the majority of the larger eltbs have no such modern convenience con-venience , A .ar.ful Investigation Into the matter will divulge the farts that iuch plants are '110-ceasfullv '110-ceasfullv operated In many parts of the country coun-try and enthusiastic consumers unhesitatingly unhesitating-ly offer their testimony as to the excellence of this modern heallnc arrangement. Whf.t It Will Cost. A modern ten-room house In a climate where the thermometer registers W) tlegrees below zero, with weather that would naturally follow- ' ouch extremes, ran be heated for from $70 to JHO per yrar. and that means that th-temperature th-temperature of the whole house can be k pt at an even heat of from TO to 7'. d STeaa n. d.slred. day and r.lght through the entire season. As Salt tJlke dors not hae extremely cold weather the cost of heating would naturally be much Icrs than It would DC In the northern central Stales, where the major It) of thcs heating systems have been Installed In Office Buildings. Office and business buildings generally are heated on a meter rate with a minimum rhorge of fi pef month, or SO cejnta per low pounda of condensation which generally figjres ..ut a leas 'Oil than the owner could heat the building for himself. |
