Show Dry Ice rJ Plant lj 4 H 1 7 R 30 Comp Completion Jt p of a dry ice plant planta at Vel Wellington n near r Price is expected p c ed within n 30 days The Telegram learned Friday The plant will bring Dring another industry to Ut Utah h expected to yield revenues revenues rev revenues rev rev- of 2 year yearly A n nine mile pipeline from the e dr dry ice ce or carbon dioxide well wel at F Farnum to the new plant at Wellington has lias been completed Construction of the new plant to make 20 tons tonsa a day to replace ce the plant in opera operation i n the thel last last five years has been under way for two months i V In In c charge arge of operations is is' the II Carbon Dioxide Chemical compa company y of Se Seattle tUe which operated the former former for for- mer plant plant Officers of ot the company com company com coth- comi i pany are Arthur E. E Goodwin dent dent dent-A- t T. T L. L Williamson secretary secre secre- secretary tal tary Marantette plant su su- su- su W. W H H. BIntz Ca Co of Salt Lake City are re sales ules representatives ot of the concern development 3 V of or the carbon cathon dioxide well at Farnum brought an extraordinary Industry in Utah to help pr preserve s ve perishable foods be be- be served at soda fountains and nd used l in the manufacture of be beer beir r. r iris Itis also lo Iso used in hospital hospIt l op iop- op operating crating rooms rooms' and for tor blasting I The new plant Vult Ut bUng bring a 8 sharp reduction in the price of dry ice The Thel Telegram learned N Now w 5 cents a pound 2 to 3 cents a pound can be expected The Telegrams Telegram's Informant informant informant inform inform- i ant said I Chemical analysis by La UC f. Lucks s i Laboratories Inc of Seattle re revealed revealed revealed re- re carbon dioxide e from the thew w well ll Continued on Pare Pate Nine t 1 IT DRY ICE PLANT n f-n jf NEARLY EARLy EARl Y READY l I Continued from Pate Pace One J t 93 per cent pure reputedly the thep Sparest p rist in the thc wor world d. d There are only three or four other such wells in ine United States Stases one in New Mex Mex- feD and one In Colorado are con con- tr by the Carbon com corn pany pan Noninflammable and Ibus o s gas from the well veIl is used by byc c coal l companies for blasting Utah's dry ice industry resulted rom a freak of tate fate While drill drill- r zig g for oil t the e Car Carbon oit c corn com pany struck U the e present welL feet feel down l t There vu was small market maret for carn car- car ribo uon n dioxide then Added to the theu u email demand w was s its J remoteness ar m market centers But eastern inan manufacturers w were re pr producing du ing 4 dry ice artificially had been since the early rIy l Cost of the strange I ne new product t prevented Its use use on a I jarg scale cale In 1929 t the he e company constructed a pl plant nt at the well wel with a capacity or of three ton tons a day Dry Ic Ice and liquid carbonic gas were produced and nd id the demand grew The rhe company expects to ship at at least a a. carload of dry ice a a day r The Th new plant will open ope a yet p untouched touched market covering the entire en- en tire western United States The 1 Telegrams Telegram's informant said It should bring about into ti the Ithe state yearly Ab About ut that amount fJ i now going out of the state from I If 1 f. f concerns that have the dry Ice ed to them thorn from other manu manufacturing 1 z centers 9 The well wen has an inexhaustible j Supply of carbon dioxide gas act ac- ac t fj J cording to Curran Curan Cavanaugh J mining engineer who inspected in- in 9 the well last February He ter termed ed it the he most prolific of oZ its type in the world Approximately one million cubic I r Jeet feet teet o of gas a a. day flow Clow from the well Under the new process this it I flow How will go gp through the recently it 17 finished nine-mile nine pipeline to to- to to the plant plant at Wellington There the gas gu will be hi collected run through a are are- re- re j i. i Uon plant and chilled The Jt r resulting liquid is sprayed into reI re- re I delving vats where it forms lorms snow- snow Jike flakes Machines pre press the snow into ks with a freezing temperature t re of degrees F. F below be bee Jow low zero ero of melting it evaporates in Ina a dry gas and when properly stored loses less than 10 p per r cent of ot It its weight a day I |