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Show IMMENSE PUT TO HEJECTED Street Railway Company to Spend Between $000,000 and $750,000 at Once. CAPACITY TO BE ELEVEN THOUSAND H0HSEP0WER Gigantic Contract for Reserve Steam Plant on Jordan Goes to New York Firm. "Progress" Is the wntchword of tho Utah Light it Railway company. Announcement An-nouncement is officially made by President Presi-dent William JL Bancroft that contracts have been lot to Wostlnghousc. Church. Kerr &. Co. of Now York for tho 11,000-horsepowcr 11,000-horsepowcr reserve station. It will be located on tho Jordan river, near tho company's present transformer station and steam plant, and work Is already under way on the preliminaries. The cost Is not mado public, but It will bo between be-tween fBOO.OOO and 750,000. This plant will be Installed for the purpose of providing an absolutely continuous con-tinuous nupply of electricity for lighting, power and street railway operations Jn Salt Lake and Ogdcn. Jt will bo a re-servo re-servo or emergency plant and If anything any-thing happens anywhere on the lines It enn pick up and carry the entire load. President Bancroft, Secretary Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker and Assistant General Manager Hunt left for tho cast yestorday on business busi-ness pertaining to this gigantic contract. Ever since tho present owners secured control of tho Ulah Light & Railway company com-pany tho annual appropriation has been for Improvements. Extensions iiavo been planned and more are forthcoming, elegant ele-gant caiH havo been provided; poles have been removed from tho streets; heavy rails laid and streets paved In lino with the civic bcttcrmenl3. For years It has been steadily increasing Its efficiency until this contract puts tho finishing touch upon its plans for generating power lo meet the rctiuiromonto of this growing city. Managor Wolla Pleased. General Manager Joseph S. Wells wna thoroughly pleased when seen Saturday for ho has been connected with tho company com-pany for twenty-five ycaru, and from the very llrst day of the operation of tho oloctrlc plants has fully realized the necessity ne-cessity of a reserve plant such as now planned. It lu a most important move in ovory way. The contract has been lot to Wcstlng-houHO, Wcstlng-houHO, Church. Kerr & Co. of New York, engineers and contractors. This firm has an enviable record for rapid and efficient execution of engineering works of magnitude. mag-nitude. Perhaps tho most Important monumonl to their aklll and enterprise Is tho Immense new terminal depot constructed con-structed for the Pennsylvania systom In the heart of New York City and Just recently re-cently completed. They built -the South Terminal station at Boston and havo designed de-signed and constructed several of the largest electric generating plants In the country They have a complete organization organi-zation for handling work of this character charac-ter and can bo depended upon to complete com-plete the job In recoru time. Tho first unit of this reserve steam plant vlll consist of an 11,000-horsepower electric generator, which will be directly connected to und driven by a mammoth stoam turbine capable of delivering continuously con-tinuously 13,500 electrical horsepower. This combined unit Is the largest piece of electrical generating apparatus between be-tween tho Mississippi river and tho coast. It will bo provided with the necessary pump condensors and auxiliary apparatus to mako it one of tho most efficient steam plants In tho country. Six holier units of sufficient capacity to provide the necessary steam for this generator will be Installed In a building separated from the main building by a flro wall. Interesting Feature. An Interesting feature of this plant will be the expense which lias been necessary neces-sary to automatically handle the coai from the time it leaves the cur until it rem.'hoa tho ash pile. Tho stoel battleship battle-ship cars of the railroad companies will be run oii an elevated trestle and the coal then dropped Into concrete storage bins. From this point the coal will be carried by link belt conveyors to storHge hoppers above tho boilers. It Is dropped as required Into tho emoke consuming stokers. These stokers arc entirely automatic in their action, nnd feed the coal Into the boilers In exactly the correct amount to supply the necessary steam. If tho amount of steam required by tho engine should Increase In-crease or decrease for any reason the rate of supplying tho coal would be changed accordingly almost beforo the change in pressure could be detected on tho gages. From the stokers the ashes fall into the cars of an Industrial railway system by means of which they are convoyed to tho dump. A full condensing equipment will be provided and tho pumps used In connection with this apparatus arc so efficient ef-ficient that within one pound of an absolute ab-solute vacuum will bo secured. The thermodynamic ther-modynamic principles of tho steam turbine tur-bine arc such that Its efficiency increases in-creases with the Increased vacuum and the thousands of dollars which aro spent to procure this almoBt perfect vacuum are ruturncd by Ihc decreased cost of tho coal consumed. Piles to Bo Driven. In order to secure an adequate foundation foun-dation for tho power house to contain this steam and electrical generating equipment It will bo necessary to drive several hundred piles on the site of the structure. These piles will bo capped with a four-foot bed of concrete which will insure an absolutely rigid foundation on which to erect the structure and sot the machinery. The building will have a stuol frame work and brick walls. It will be of plouslng design with the snmu stylo of architecture as is used In buildings build-ings of a similar character In the east. Particular attention will he given to the lighting of the power station and boiler room. The highest principles of Illuminating Illumi-nating engineering have been used In tho arrangement of the natural atid artificial light. Tho floors and roof of the building will be of concrete and tho whole construction con-struction will be llro proof. A masonry slack, twelve feet in dlam-otcr. dlam-otcr. and 200 feet In hclsht. will be erected just outside of and adjacent to the boiler room to provide tho draft for the six large batteries hollers. While the llrst unit to be Installed will be of 11.000 horse power capacity the building is designed to be expanded In both directions and space has been provided pro-vided for an ultimate capuclty of 75,000 horse power. Control Arrangemont. Perhaps the most, interesting of the entire design is the switch board and nwltch control arrangement. As has been referred to above, the switching of tho company's entire systom of water power and steam plants and transmission und distribution lines has been centered at the switch board in this plant. This Is so arranged that any trouble from any of the transmission lines can be detected and at a moment's notice, by merely turning a switch the reserve power at this new plant can he placed in opor-atlon opor-atlon and no delay in tho street car movement will result. As Is generally known tho company has two generating plants In Cottonwood canyon, one hi Ogdcn Og-dcn canyon and ono on tho Bear river, i M" new water power ge""- m which it is Installing in Weber canyon will be completed In a couple of months, This new steam plant will have a capacity capa-city cquni to any two wator power generating gen-erating stations so that anv trouble which might occur rrfmultancousdy to two of lhf.se plants would not Impair tho company's com-pany's service since the reserve steam PlRllwnSc:S!e ?,Kl,aclly l replace thorn. ii tovcl, the representative of tiiU Westlnghouse. Churcli. Ker cSmpu v who has been on Ihc ground for the past two weekH rounding out tho details and Foft "roV U;."Slrrt!,0" work S ,d" rwUv ion ror jew York Inst jiifiit u i BrlnkerhofT. the resldcmt engineer a on wnVn111 ?ntWB S,ln d with the work. O. A. Honno d. .the Utah com -pany's electrical engineer, will look afr his company's Interests lii'eoimectmn with the construction or the plant It is oi-pectcd oi-pectcd thai li will bo com loled and tn operation early noxt spring nU 1,1 |