Show OC REDUCTION Of SMOKE MUKE BUDGET IJO TU BE ED 11 Heavy vy Expenditures and Extensive Changes in Plants Lead Committee to Ask Large Appropriation r On n the tho grounds that five tive operators of jf plants formerly classified as have spent more money this this' gummer than Salt Lako City has pent In the past four years for tor smoke Abatement work any reduction by bythe bythe the he elt city In tho appropriation for tor this work will wm meet with strong protest s to action taken today by bJ bythe the fittie nuisance committee of or the Commercial club and chamber of ot commerce J S Basis for tor the attitude of or tho the comIs committee com corn Is found In a report submitted by jy H. H W V Clark deputy smoke Inspector in inspector inspector In- In to Cit City Commissioner A. A H. H Crabb a on August 1 I extracts from tho the report being read at today's luncheon meeting of ot the committee In ad addition addition ad- ad to tho the club members thep tho the p mayors majors smoke prevention pre U on executive committee was wat represented at the which was WM presided over oyer b by J. J Cecil Alter chairman of at the Commercial Com Corn mercial club smoke organization SP SPEND N D S In submitting extracts from his re report report re- re I port to the commissioner Deputy In- In Clark Clar pointed out that tho the five vo operators referred to will have spent b by the end of ot the tho summer summer sum sum- mer in rebuilding rebuilding- their plants to abate bate tho the production of ot smoke The operators together with the tho approximate approximate mate Inato expenditures follow tollow Utah Power and Light company University ty of ot Utah Utah Fire Clay com company pan Salt Like lake ake Wet ct Wash laundry and the ho he Palace laundry total The deputy smoke Inspector also called attention to tho the fact that plants lants have ha been examined and detailed detailed de- de tailed drawings sent to the plant op operator operator operator op- op with a request that changes be bo made nado do In this connection he ho said that hat moro more than twenty of ot the plant operators have already made tho the desired de- de sired Ired changes REPORT REPORT READ i. i Tho following Is la that portion of Sir Ir Clarks Clark's report given gi en to members of tho the smoke abatement committees 1 tat t. t today's meeting K During DurinA tho the winter of ot 1920 1020 and thero plants that were markedly bad smokers and another io that were serIous contributors to toi malt Jt Lake cSt City smoke nuisance The equipment of or these plants was of ot i f Duch fuch JUth a nature that tho plants could l not ot b bl bo operated without smokeS smoke un- un l ler er the existing lg conditions It will b b IB readily seen that if It no alterations were ere made In these plants this sumner sum- sum fter ner the they would make male as much smoke text t winter as they did during the tho thet post t one and rind yer very little additional reduction In Salt Lake City smoke c be lie expected during the coming inter f The amount of smoke reduction I next v winter Inter depends directly tl on the thc amount of It f reconstruction work worl done this summer assuming that the I ar aro patrolled with diligence to 10 that p of lunt winter No o re reconstruction re- re I I ron construction no no smoke reduction much locon much smoke I states tates the tho situation in a to r. n lq I IN SUMMER p reconstruction work mu must t b be hone tn ne in tho the summer time when the plants are not In use as It Is lible to make maIn the these e stringent ent changes ill ft tho the winter when hen the plants are in ined I itt f e ed eTho Tho The work that Is done in the I Pinter r time Is of ot a n. patrol nature and I results are limited b by the charac charac- ter of or tho equipment in tho the plants the thc proper equipment proper proper- ly Installed no amount of ot patrol work Could make a smokeless city It takes takeso o e two branches of ot the work to make III ce first proper reconstruction wf tt o plants plant and second dill- dill tent lent patrol p of ot plants after ther they the r re e l properly equipped for proper er oper- oper Ilion tuon Ik WIn In lOrn order to got get et reconstruction work ork I it Is necessary that each plant be fully gone one o over over r and its physical I and conditions de- de an drawings made madet t r tho needed changes These drawers draw draw- ers p aro A sent nt to tho the owners of ot tho the ants ti or their agents with the request requestS S t the changes es be be made macic as aR soon aa as sIble In many cases S tho the plant own- own either signifies his willingness to the work or goes ahead immediate immediate- and has It done If It they do not do doit dos s it requires personal calls catta on the thel l Continued on p 10 REDUCTION OF SMOKE Continued from page 1 property owner urging him to make the changes recommended Ea Each h plant must bo be bo followed up uri until l the tho owner n agrees rees to make the changes or refuses to make them To date no plant owner owner owner own own- er er has refused to make the changes re re- re qu quested st d. d MANY EXAMINED One Ono hundred ten plants have been examined 1 and detailed drawings sent to the plant punt owners with the tho request that the changes bo be made as soon Hoon as possible t I The owners owner of or the thc following plants I have ha already made the changes rec roc recommended by this department Salt Salt Lake Knitting works Butter Butter- Krust bakery baker Salt Lake Lako Wet Wash Vash laundr laundry Salt Lake Like Cleaning and DeIns Dyeing Dyeing Dye Dye- ing Ins company compan Utah Fire Clay company compan Harris Han Brothers dairy Daly hotel Heron hotel St. St Marks Mark s 's hospital Independence Independence Inde Inde- hotel L L. A. A Simons Simona building building build build- Inde-I Inde ing Paterson Hardware Hardwi rc corn comI com com- I pany piny La France apartments the Cover Covey Cov- Cov j cy ey apartments the Utah Ice and Cold i I Storage company Palace laundry Vernal Ver- Ver Verj Veri j i nal hotel New Grand hotel Weldon Veldon 1 hotel L. L A A. A Cohn company and the I Clothing com company pan I Reconstruction II Is under wn way at nt the South Temple plant of tho the Utah Power I and Light company compan University ati of at i Utah Hicks apartments and Rowland I Hall Hall plants I Tho The owners of or twenty four plants have agreed to make mako m ke tho the alterations alterations' i 4 recommended by this department Tho owners of at nine forty plants plants' I have been sent detailed drawings of II the changes recommended but have not yet agreed to make mako tho the nece necessary alterations I All AIl these places will require additional add 1 I calla to persuade the tho owners owners' to tomake tomake make mike the recommended c changes onge I I Thirty nine plants have not yet been bec gone gono over over b but Jt our records show 1 that the they produce enough eno s smoke oke to ne necessitate necessitate ne- ne their reconstruction this summer before smokeless operation can bo be obtained 1 If allowed to go on without reconstruction they will produce produce produce pro pro- duce large largo volumes s of smoke next winter win ter which the citizens of ot Salt L Lake ka I City will have hav to breathe |