| Show SALT LAKE BEER A Cool Quarter of a Million Invested in the Celebrated Brewery Cooling Off the Beer With a Machine Colder Than Ice Au Apparatus That Will Freeze Up in the Hottest Kind of Weather For the purpose of inspecting the only icemanufacturing machine between Chicago and San Francisco a DEMOCRAT reporter yesterday visited the Salt Lake Brewery and was made acquainted with the ingenious invention by Manager Jacob Moritz The cooling of water and the manufacture of ice on a small scale is in the most torrid weather only a simple chemical process but an invention inven-tion that will cool thousands of gallons of brine water to a temperature 5 degrees below zero and manufacture blocks of ice when the sun is raising the thermometer in the nineties is not alone a scientific success but also a costly experiment to put into practical operation The works of the Salt Lake Brewing Company situated on G4 acres of elevated land at the corner of Fifth South and Tenth East streets and at the I rear of the brewery proper is the new brick building erected for the new ice machine which will be capable of cooling cool-ing the cellars and giving a frigid atmosphere atmos-phere to the brewery throughout the hottest hot-test weather The boiler in connection with the apparatus is 90horse power and was manufactured by Haines Son Salt Lake The main room in which is located TIlE IMPROVED LINDE ICE MACHINE I Also contains a fine Corliss engine with 36inch stroke which will be used in forcing the icecold brine water through all the pipes in the cellars The machinery ma-chinery is from the house of Fred W Wolf Chicago who is owner of the United States patents of this invention Mr Fritz Kruse a thorough engineer and machinist is here for the purpose of superintending the putting up of the machine The works are expected to be completed in about three weeks time and the total cost of the machinery and building will be 0000 Mr Moritz explains that while the cost is heavy in the first place the machinery will dispense i dis-pense with the use of hundreds of tons of ice in the summer time and give better satisfaction than the genuine winter product pro-duct of our rivers It comes high said Mr Moritz but weve got to have it as we are determined to keep the Salt Lake Brewery in the front rank of the procession No brewing works in the United States have better facilities than we have naturally and we are determined to keep pace with the latest I improved appliances in our line The apparatus for the production of the cooling water which is to be forced through the pipes to cool the cellar or to produce ice if necessary consists of two tanks each 10x12 feet in size The refrigerating re-frigerating tank contains a spiral iron coil in the centre made of one piece which is charged with ammonia Surrounding Sur-rounding this spiral coil is the water charged with brinea barrel of salt to a barrel of waterwhich prevents it freezing freez-ing THE EVAPORATION OF THE AMMONIA Cools the surrounding water to the desired de-sired temperature and it is then pumped into the pipes and forced through the entire en-tire cellerage In connection with this is a suction pump which forces the ammonia am-monia vapor into the condensing tank where it assumes the fluid form and can be used again Mr Kruse says the machine is simple economical and durable which with the exceptionally small loss of ammonia after the machine has once been charged makes it preferable to ice in creSling and maintaining a low and constant temperature tempera-ture throughout the lower regions of the brewery The iron pipes through which the cooling waters are forced extend throughout the fomenting and storage rooms and are attached to the ceilings of the cellars eight deep and five broad strung like so many telegraph wires and when the machine starts work these pipes will be covered with frost and long icicles giving the cellars TIlE AIR AND APPEARANCE OK VERITABLE WINTER The main cellar to be cooled is 120 x 62 feet and contains over one hundred large oak casks in tiers three deep with aisles left through in which to move about with the aid of a candle The capacity of this cellar is 5000 barrels or 160000 gallons In the fomenting cellar which with the whole building juts back into the hill there is the same cement floor stonewalls stone-walls clean whitewash constant flow of I clear water and an air of cleanliness pervading per-vading the whole establishment that would do credit to the kitchen of any first class family The addition of the fine ice machine ranks the Salt Lake Brewery among the foremost of the United States although the reputation that its beer already enjoys I can hardly be enhanced To its natural advantages location and neverfailing spring of crystal watersupplying 450 barrels per day the brewery owes much but it owes equally as much to the energy i and push of the company The fact that A QUARTER OK A MILLION IS INVESTED In a Salt Lake brewery will surprise many but such is the fact and the payroll pay-roll of the company embraces forty names The capacity the Salt Lake Brewing Company is estimated at 50000 barrels a year which is in fact 14 gallons per week for every man woman and child living in Salt Lake City For barley I alone the company has during the present year paid Utah fanners 34000 and as much more will be consumed before the end of the year The brewery manufac tures three kinds of beertown beer export beer and Budweiser beer each kind requiring a difference in material and brewing The Budweiser is accounted account-ed the costliest rice and Bavarian hops being used while export beer is manufactured manufac-tured for the purpose of being shipped and retaining its flavor The trade in Salt Lake Beer as may well be imagined is not a local one by any mean A branch supply depot is established at Hailey Idaho and THE SHIPMENTS OF THE FIRM Average five car loads a week to various points throughout the country In town three delivery wagons are kept constantly con-stantly employed in serving customers and in the summer time they are the hardest worked men in the employ of the company The president of the company is Mr Matt Cullen vicepresident Mr H W Morse and secretary and treasurer Mr Jake Moritza combination of capital I brains and enterprise and it is only fair to say that with their unrivaled facilities and appointments and the growing popu I larity of Salt Lake Beer the finn has a monopoly which rivals in its value and safety any investment that could be I made in the country |
