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Show SIX SILICATE RETORTS BPJ The Utah Light & Railway company has completed six new' silicate retorts at its gas works, and work on thc others is under way. The process of cooling these Ercat retorts consumes about GO days before they can be handled, han-dled, the heat of more than 3,000 degrees de-grees Fahrenheit being so intense thai even after the fires are withdrawn the white "hot Interiors glow like smelting furnaces for days. The retorts haye heretofore been built of fireclay or decomposed granite. gran-ite. A substitute has beoa discovered. This waB at last found In silicate, a non-solublo composition, Impervious to heat and capable of standing a greater degree of It than even aabcf)-tos aabcf)-tos or fireclay. It is manufactured by grinding up the material and molding mold-ing It under hydraulic pressure, and heat. The new retorts are 1 feet long and 22 by 30 Inches In diameter and are Installed In batteries of six retom each. The new gas main extensions have been completed on Washington avenue to Thlrty-Becond street and down the latter as far as Lincoln avenue. Work is" also nearly finished on the mains on Twenty-second street, between Washington avenue and Monroe avenue. ave-nue. These mains arc six IncheB In diameter. OO: |