Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-15
Los Angel Gas Company.

Los Angeles Gas Company.
In the midst OF what are commonly
called hard times, there are number of
business concerns in Los Angeles which
display their courage and their confidence
in the brighter future of the city by in
creasing their facilities. Prominent
among these is the Los Angeles Gas
Company, one of the Oldest and most
substantial enterprises in Los Angeles, or
for that matter, in Southern California.
Just now this institution is making ar.
rangements to double part of it's plant
and to extend its privileges over large
area of territory heretofore without it's
pale.
The company came into existence back
in the sixties, when very small amount
of gas, manufactured in diminutive fac
tory down in Sonorstown, supplied all
the town. Since that time the city has
doubled, quadrupled, and multiplied
itself by ten or fifteen, and the Gas Com
pany has been compelled to take some
long strides to keep up with it. But at
no time has it lost its wind or fallen
behind, and at present it is we'll abreast
with all the other improvements OF the
locality.
The company owns considerable tract
of land on Also street in the vicinity OF
Center, and on the corner of these two
its works are situated. Its yards cover a
considerable area of ground, and night
and day they TEEN with men hard at
work. On Ramirez street, about hum
dred yards from the main plant, an
enormous pit is sunk where the new
holder is to be located, just back of the
one which the company is now using.
This holder, which will more than
triple the present storage capacity of the
company, is worthy OF special mention.
The pit, which is now almost entirely
excavated, is ia feet in diameter and
about 25 feet in depth. A large gang of
men are at work carrying out the earth
and preparing the foundation of concrete
on which the walls Of brick-work are to
stand. In the course of the excavation
lively sulphur spring was unear, he'd,
from which flows stream that has to be
pumped out steadily night and day. A
hume has been put in connecting with a
neighboring zanja, and the people along
the line of the latter receive great
many hundred inches of water gratis
In the center of the pit mound of earth,
which will be covered with concrete,
rises to height of twelve feet. On this
will stand a masonry pillar to support
the top of the holder when, being empty
of gas, it sinks to that level. The walls
of masonry rise 81 feet above the grade.
The holder is q double arrangement,
opening out one part within the other
like two sections of telescope. Its di-
ameter at the top is SS1a feet and at the
bottom 80 feet. Its total capacity is
800, 900 cubic feet. The present holder,
which stands near it, has capacity of
125, 900 cubic feet. Thus, as the present
holder will still be ready for use after
the new one is finished, it is evident that
the company will have three times its
present storage capacity, and is ready to
meet the development of the city for
some time to come.
The company manufactures it's gas by
what is known as the Springer process
and ordinary coal retorts combined.
Experience has shown that the gas made
by this process is cleaner, burns brighter
and is in every way more reliable than
that made by any other process. Four
years ago the arrangements for
this process were put in, and at
s~~SS eAAAiS ONSAy paw VI LuG
which could, in any way, get
out Of order was duplicated, 60 that it
would never be necessary to shut off the
supply to consumers for the purpose of
making repairs. To maintain uniform
pressure through the distribution there
is connected with the holder Connolly
governor. a delicate apparatus by which, |
whether there be in use one burner or
,en thousand, the fame burns always
With the same supply of gas. 1t gives
he consumers of it's gas the advantage
II an absolutely uniform pressure.
The sudden development of the city in |
III directions has put this company to an |
enormous expense in extending its |
Mains. 1t has now in contemplation
md will soon begin work on scheme of |
extension into number of new districts.
It the present time its mains extend to
Washington street, and out Figueroa be.
ond Adams. 1t is planned to continue
long Washington to the city limits, and
ut Figueroa into Jefferson. The connect
ng streets in this district, like York and J
Ills avenue, will be included as
apidly as possible. Negotiations are
nder way for q main out toward the
est, along Seventh street to the Bonny
rae tract.
Thus far only small part of Boyle
Lights has been supplied with gas from
lis company. The main crosses on the
liso.street bridge, and will continue out
irst street to the cable power-house.
he plan for extension also includes East
os Angeles. The company will extend
9 mains wherever the demand for gas 3
i'll warrant the expenditure. ~
From these facts it will be seen that
g Los Angeles Gas Company contains a
its management number of progress =
We spirits, who do not propose TO allow II
temporary depression 20 in any way
ep back their work of development.
is an organization in which the city fl
3 good reason to take pride. Il
Confessed Perjury. o
SAN BERNARDINo, September 14.-Mrs. q
ay Gilmore, arrested for perjury in the q
al of Walker for arson, has confessed
d named several others implicated