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Show j . . V ....... ' . . . - l r - i . , , ' - r - ' - . . r , , If there Is cne rers-on In Ea't Ll--e who believes t".t r:'..:rs when rrcp-cr!y rrcp-cr!y i- :ta::od in coai-vulr 5; steam I'.ants will rot consume the smoke from the boi'r rooms, let Hn but look at the stack on Secern East street, between Fourth and Fifth South etreets, and he will be convinced that bis belief was erroneous. er-roneous. , . One who was the most ardent supporter sup-porter of the idea of Installing: the stokers stok-ers would scarcely believe the evidences of his senses when looking- at that stack which supplies the draft for the boilers of the heating and power blant of the city and county building.- f No Smoke Is Visible. Though an average of 100 tons of coal are used each month and though In the present month 150 tons of coal are be-1, ing burned, there Is not a trace of the long dense black plume of smoke that formerly emanated from the stack, be- f 0 l " r t at ' .'"to, r troy'.r vf etat.. .1 ar 1 t. ...; J t..a iullic '.. .1. The Etc.; or which recfr."- in stalled cr: "imfs every part;.'.- cf smoke, eri, furthermore, is econorr.ical, Favirj Et least 15 per cent of the coal used. Cavir- to City Thia saving 13 a matter of great Importance, Im-portance, as there are 1:1". 3 tons of coal used in the covrse of "a year. The saving sav-ing of 15 per cent means that 10-0 tons of coal will run the building for a year, or a saving of ISO tons. As the .stoker . with which the city and county battery of boilers is equipped costs net, $35C0, the stoker will have paid for lt9elf In coal savings in a few-years. Aside from this consideration, con-sideration, the city's atmosphere will not have been contaminated for thaf period. - Others Installing Stokers. , Other owners of steam plants of fifty horse-power or over, are taking cognisance cogni-sance of the recent order of the City Council and are .Installing stokers in their plants. The Utah Light and Power company is going to perhaps the greatest expense of any local corporation, In order to comply with the orders. That company plant In the rear of the Tribune building is being remodeled to accommodate the stokers at a cost of approximately J15.000. Stokers are being be-ing put In at the Jordan plant, which, with additional steam equipment, will cost $10,000 Testing: New Consumer. A consumer Is being tested at the Street Railway power house, with a view of equipping the station with a smoke exterminator. Manager Campbell of the company said today: "Every boiler of this company will be equipped with an acceptable consumer or stoker, and every new boiler that Is Installed by this company within the corporate, limits of Salt Lake will be equipped as It Is installed." . . |