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Show SALT LAKERS VISIT SIG POWDER PLANT Immense Works at Bacchus Inspected and Details of Methods Explained To temporarily g o up one s supply of matches may be somewhat of au nconvenienee but that was what Tvaa requ red of a party of Salt Lake v s tors who jeate day went through the works of the Hercules Powder com pany at the new town of Bacchus How ever the si ght nconven ence was al together lost n the nterest ng th ngs that were seen Tt was as guests of the rowder com pany represented bv J V Skelly of Wi nungton Del v ce pres dent and general sa es agent and 1 J McCan ney of Salt Laltej local n anager that i the party made the s t The spec a) tra n left Salt Lake o er the B gham & Garfield ailivay under the csco t of H Stoutenborough ass stant gen eral fre ght and passenger agent au 1 the eomiany cons sted of about 1'5 pe sons The powder vorks were rea hed at 10 lo in thhe morn ng, welcomed by Mr Skelly who told or what the com pany had done n establ sung homes for the employees who were necessarily solated from other settlen ents ailing attent on to the town tself the board mg house the club and the nun erous neat and modern homes Before be ng taken through the pow der works tl e nen bers or the party were requ red to g e up all matches The g de showed the process ot n anu facture nd cat ng how ar ous gases were ma le and sol d fied and m xed to forn ntrogljcern and tl en turned nto po der by m x n w th pulp E eryth g was expla ne 1 n deta 1 fro n dry ng tbe sawdust and t e salts to the final t ack ng As mementos ot the occas on the nembers of the party were g en dum my powder rolls rep esent ng gelat ne and dyna-m te wh ch were n xed w th cyl nder o 1 nstead of n tro gly er n n orler to render them ha n less After inspect ng the gelat De and djnamte plants the party euiojed a 1 ncheon at the club ho se n the town of Bacchus where sterl ng si er pen c Is were d str buted as sou en rs Mr fekelly actel as toastn aste a d Gover nor Spry respon led to the ch ef toast He welcomed the new n lustry to the state He ad led that at t e last leg s lat e he had endea ored to mo 1 fv the present laws so as to n akc the entrj of new corporat ons nto the state eas er but somehow fell down He announced a determ nat on to try . aga n when he hoped to le n ore s c cesful W W Armstrong also spoke along the same line The plant will start mak ng n tro glcenn and powder toda and no s to s w 11 be adm tte 1 n the future The t act cons ts of al o t 1 00 acres of gro nd and the plant cost approxi atel $1 00 000 It s capable of turn ng out 1 500 000 pounds of powder lnontLlv |