The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-20
RAISING OF THE PREMIER.
Grant Brothers VIII Make q Bid to
Lift Her by Their Process.

TACOMA, Oct I3.-fspeciaL 1.-The Grant
lrothers lett this evening by the steamer City
oi Seattle Tor Seattle, and tomorrow they will
proceed 10 the wreck OF the Premier and surrey
IL with view OF putting in bid TO raise her.
The bids N st be in by saturday, aud the Grant
boys GO not think any company will agree to
touch the wreck for less than s5j 900. OF course
they are sure that ty their process they can
hoai the Premier at s figure that will simply
shut out Ali competition. still they expect, or
would like to realize enough for the service to
reimburse those who have put money into the
project.
They will he ready TO go 10 work on the
Premier In twelve days. Their apparatus is now
all here, consisting Of air pumps, condensers
AID apparatus for injecting chemicals INTO their
coI4apsa5le cylinders, together With air. This
Chemical Ingredient Is known only to the Grant
boys. ana as the chemical Is Of no use without
the appliances aad apparatus, which ara
patented, they VIII rot even have the chemicals
patented BY this chemical they say they can
increase TIE pressure practically 400 pounds TO
the square inch iastead OF 800 pounds cir
pressure, as has heretofors been announced.
All alone, they say, frequently falls 20 raise
vessel, but the chemicals injected. together
with the ar. can raise an object which had no
natural buoysncy. Ten times as much weight
can 10 raised by the chemicals, together with
air, than can be raised with the air alone,
As ior The Premier, they ray they can raise
her by hand. although they have been told she
has settled in the mud, and that the undertov
VIII Dc an obstacle In their way. Capt Warner,
OF the Puget sound dry deck says she is en-.
,irely submerged during high tide, bain sunk
In sixteen feet of water However thu hand
process Is necessarily more unsteady than with
mechanical aid. The Gordon engine used IL,
the process, and she other appliances need
only steam, which the Grant Brothers saw can
be supplied BY tie tug which taxes them TO the
wreck
Tie colispsable cylinders now stored here are
of heavy duck, such as used for making nv
dTauI.c hose. Some OF IL 10 protected BY cord.
age band, aud u 30 metallic covering Cant
Warner thinks II Will be more difficult 10 raise
the Premier than the San Pedro The Grant
boys cay Il makes little difference VIVA. condi-
ton the boat IL in, they are confident Of floating
her In few hours. once their apparstu, IL at
tached. The attaching of tie apparatus will
consist simply OF placing the duck cylinders or
sacks inside the Premier. They will be scat.
tered throughout the huh, and then they viii
10 simu itaneOusly inflated with air aud the &c.
cret chemical process. one aaoat the appsra
tus Will be ''corked up as !. were. and the
hull Will be towsd TO a dry dock. The Grsn,
boys would rather. for the safety o. the vessel
have the Premier, should they tAxe the contract
L. L 'nt her. Heated 10 tia Puget souu. dry
does at Maury island, rather than seud her
thfough The straits Ihe dry DOCK will Of
N1t>tsIs 1c uhtllE@ ~ the pSbeFe OF Ine vessel
IL Is estimated by the Grant Brothers that
there are scattered about the world $3.50 sunken
sesses. macy OF which can De- raised at profit
by their process Beside the iron ship Ferndale
which stranded OF Grays Harbor last winter
they have figured that the cargo alone Of a
wooden vessel which snUk o.f the Northwestern.
coast OF this state Is worth sl,o.ep0 The YES
SCI IS loaded IN a trst-cIass quality of Ara
brick and pig iron. oae OF the Grant brathers
fears the FeTL da.e has sstt ed so much under ia
cargo Of railroad iron JasG u may be a d!Iicult
Task 10 raise her.
In setarirS iueir patents Il irauspirct that tho
Grant B.o.he-s Gid Dot have smooth sailing
Sooie fellow NJ IN New Brunswick ha. patented =
ciEercat spplt, atIcn from theirs. bearing % tns
same subject lie however. had never TIt =,
auy practical value, tus still the Grant i..v.
would asye teeu suolec; - Interference on. TIC
past ei the New ErGnswiCS maa had they no.
bought up - patent, which they have su,.
coed "a doing tor s00u; $70.0. ami now nave Tho
tsid 81 themselves. Ihels apparatus s.ss ca;
about t-,HvA
some - those wsn hsvs talked % hecor,tnr
Interested Ia iae ratcCts have not advanced
teeit proportion e. t.e t;.rds. and II IL sett
thSy W. 70; l. permitted t. share ,he se,ebt.
either alter tse process becomes 4 success