Show I GEYSER STEAM TURBINE i. i i California C California 0 0 Firm 0 Prepares I X 0 to Expand Project S 1 t i By Dy FRANK CLARVOE ft t United United Press Staff Correspondent SANTA ROSA Cal June 9 By tU IT P. P Many P. Many a a. m man n has sat and watched his dog and wondered If It l c ever eyer It would be possible to harness the potential power to be generated general general- ed by that wagging tall t Others have e sat and watched i i geysers and wondered the same thing but the dream is Js going to be bea beS S 8 a reality In the case of ot geysers acS ac- ac S to M. M O. O Christie of ot the Geysers Development company of Healdsburg near here I Along Little Sulpher creek near the ground i la is pockmarked pock- pock marked i for tor ten miles mUes with geyser h les The Tha st steam am which Is Js generI generated gener- gener t I dally daily beneath that strip of land might do untold things the citizens S f of ot Healdsburg believed according to Christie Christle so they formed a holding company and took over the tho lane land from a summer and winter resort 5 company S t- t They decided to make use of ot S something heretofore as economically economical economical- ly IY useless as the wag of ot a dogs dog's S tall tall tail T Christie r revealed vea ed that the com corn S v pany already has dug two wells each of ot them feet deep Deeper beeper i J an their drills would not go An Inch eight-Inch casing was sunk Ini In i each hole to bring up the steam gen- gen lol crated In the geys ous depths of he sub-strata sub and this was forced through Inch pipe Into a steam turbine W c 4 It has been found according to 4 i. Christie that the pressure of the steam on the inch Inch pipe aggregates aggregates S S gates seventy pounds to the square Inch With a Inch five vent Yent th the 1 i. i X pressure aggregates thirty pounds The turbine through which theM the from the two wells Is forced M generates 1600 kilowatts 5 Acc According to Christie the company com com- p pany ny will wUl sink other wells and generate gen gen- p erate and sell electricity for tor light and power In Healdsburg and vir vl- vl r Should the of 1 steam in the sub-strata sub prove proe suf- suf f f clent an extensive power elop der-elop- lt project i Is Y plan planned ed Lt |