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Show NEW PLANT OF IE TO LIGHT Salt Lake, Feb IC "An unqualified success " Thar was rlio opinion of officers of the Utah Light and Railway company and electrical experts who were present at the "tryout" of Ihe 11,000 hoise power s-.cam plant of tho company on the east bank of the Jor dan river, between South Temple and First South street. Wednesday afternoon after-noon It was only a "trvout" of the big new plant of tho company, which will bo put In full operation early next month. But it was sufficient to convince eery man p.-esenl that the days of "no lights" find stoppage of streot cars because one or more of the water generating plants was out of commission, was a thing' of tho past The "tryout" wad sufficient to demonstrate that the new power plant of the company has few. If any equals In the countrv. It was stated, and tho test proved the statement, that the new power plant Is the most up-to-date of any In thu United States, which in this case means the world. Shortly before the Inspection party reached the new station tho fires were started under tho north bollera From that time until the test was ended onlv one man was required to "watch tho furnaces. The coal is automatical' rnlsed to tho carrlora from a largo bin on the north side of the building, is carried automatically to tho long feeder above the fire boxes, Is fed automatically au-tomatically to the furnaces, the ashe3 diop automatically Into a receptacle below the Arc grates and are carried out of the building In Ginall cars. At one time during the test close to 1000 pounds of coal per hour were being be-ing fed into tho furnace, yet so perfect was tho working of the automatic stokers stok-ers that nothing except a little white smoke came from the big stack to the noi th of tho building oo |