The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-28
ELECTRIC LIGHT.
4 Party Visit the New Horn Silver
Works to Look at the Brush
Illumination.

illumination.
By invitation OF Mayor Little,
party of prominent business gentle
> men and few ladies went south, las
evening, to the spot where the new
smelling works of the Horn Silve
Mining Company are to De erected
to view the Brush electric lights
which are now used there. A specia
train was placed at the disposal o.
the party by Superintendent Sharp.
which left at few minutes past
O'Clock, and made the distance of si1
miles In q few minutes. Besides
Mayor Little. there were in the party
Hon. VIM. Jennings. Hon. john 7.
Game, Mr.. 7. W. Jennings, Alderman
81. Dinwoodey, Alderman E. F.
Sheets, Councillor 7. E. Taylor, Major
G. s. Erb, s. z. Tessdel, Esq., Boyd
Park, Esq., ". s. Mccormick, Esq,
Mr.. Allen. of Moore, Allen & Co.,
Judge Turner, and number of others.
The lights could be seen at consider
able distance before the destination
wss reached. The power for the
lights Was furnished by sn old 5 horse
power engine, and prior to the arrival
of the train, owing to the water being
muddy, some little difficulty had been
experienced in getting the lights TO
burn steadily, but by the time the
party got of the cars they were burn.
ing as brightly and steadily as could
be desired. The lights were some
distance apart, and after examining
the engins ana the apparatus by which
the electrical current is produced, the
gentlemen began TO test the efficiency
of the neR illumination. Mr.. O. O..
Ruthrnu1. the agent, was on Ihs
ground. and he explained such nat-
ters as could not be comprehended by
anyone but an expert. The first step
was to see whether the light was
steady, and ell the time the party
was on the GROUND the light main
tanned q constancy which MAS entirely
satisfactory and adequate TO every re-
qniTement, and contrasted inl
a marked degree with the
which characterized
the exhibition in front of
ths coop. some time ago. A gen.
tleman present, Mr.. I. W. Jennings,
who had seen the light in Cleveland,
stated that he bad witnessed
the burning Of twenty. eight
Of thess illuminators in that
city, all of which were
run by one machine, and that during
three hours the lights burned so
steadily that no variation was per-
ceptible, more than would be in any
other light. Regarding the distance
which the machine would throw light,
4 newspaper could be read at dis
lance OF seventy feet without any
effort whatever, and the words in a
NelOS' editorial could be read nearly
500 feet distant. Twice the lights
we're allowed to so out, which they
lid almost at the instant the engine
stopped running, and we're ablsze
again at the moment when il was
started up. A number of the party
went about 1000 ieet north OF the
light and could easily make out the
lime by their watches; while further
est was made which showed that at
distance OF 1900 feet the hour could
De distinguished by watch.
The lights IN use at the Horn Silver
are of 2.000-candle power, but we're
aided with reaectors, which added so
ger cent. to the power of the light,
making each equal to 3,000-csDdle
bower. One Of the lights was GOV.
,red with ground glass globe, such
Is will be used over lights in stores.
This took of 40 per cent. of the
power OF the light, but toned it
Town by taking away the glare which
s felt at close proximity when
here is no globe. and gave hesnti-
ul, mellow light. Besides being ,
lights OF but 2,000-csndle power, they
we're elevated only twenty four feet
rom the ground, which detrscted
from the efficacy for
lighting long distances, but were high
enough to satisfy the uses to which
hey will be put. The proposition
made by Mr.. RuthrGuff to the city
vas to light it by four lights, each Of
Is, OO0-candle power, or power ak
teen times greater than that OF the
lights spoken of above. These we're
to have been elevated 200 feet, in
.tead OF twenty-iour as those seen
asst night were, or over eight
lines higher. and would have
given a light equal to $1,000
candles, or $500 gas jets. The ad-
in having the lights at as
high an elevation as Feasible is owing
% the fact that the upper cart on
burns a voltsio arc, which is of
greater efficacy proportionately as the
light is higher.
The party returned a. s 25. ap-
parently well pleased with the tip
and the exhibition OF the Brush cleo
.ric light.