Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-27
BUSINESS AND MINES.
Output Of lh5 Salt Lake Oily Cts
Works.
OVER o,Ooo,ooo FEET PER MONTH


supply Tor illumination during the
holiday, when tho demand ON ihe gan
plant is usually as great as It can COPE
with. Tine now furnaces are OF some.
wha. different design TO tho.o hereto.
fore erected aud used, iu that tLD nfu
mad ash box aro 10 be located beneath
tho fio5r and the feeding piaUa wi'l be
closer up between the roloria than iu
thu other furnaces.
The output Of ,he gaswotks now &C.
about what /. was ten year since, tbc
introduction Of electric lighting being
the cause Tor a uon-oEtors.0u OF tnc
plant aud service. Ihe time hla uUun
reached, however, WHOM additions
musl Do made, foF the requirements Tor
gas for Illuminating ANA heating pur.
poses nfu steadily increasing, auu thc
plan, Of the Salt Lake company b now
taxed 10 90 utmost capacity. The
company had intended 10 erect now
a-u larger s tank this fall, but the
prersuru OF financial matters haH uauspd
the WORK 90 be deferred till spuur. A
further puslponemuut then Will bu
impfauucahle from the present outlook,
Tor uniuaa thiB s,Up h taken 90 that
time thO pruaaut plant will iall short OF
being equal 10 supply the demand.
Although NOT much 10 hu1lI OF the
gas WORKS except In the wny 81
settling billa Tor tho iilumiIalor,
u BE- quito an important Industry
IN Salt Lake. During the month
VI Oetobor thtue million ieut OF gas
were cJusumei In this city, taking
about 300 tons u coal for ~ pr1uuc.
ton, exclusive Of the coke necessary
Tor beating IT, This month the amount
Will Be largely Increased, not Ices than
twelve tons Oi bitumiuuus Clal being
FROSTED" every twonty-iOur hUurs, 0F
800 tons month. As winter COMES
on tho amount viii 20 above TUE,
reaching, about the holidays, seventeen
10 eighteen tons Uf coal day,
The gas company now has four fur.
naces ia operation and Onu undergo.
lug temporary repairs will be started
up us soon no ready. Ia zach OF these
furnaces rctoris ggu arranged Ia groups
or "beuUhysW 10 10 usual la. gas
works TO hAvr ihUm Ia oIN simhers
VI three u seven placed thus: : :
. : .
In the salt Lake works, however, three
Of the furnaces have three TetUTlB in
each, while two others have six each,
arranged 20 that The heat from tnc
burning coke reaches all Of them.
LgCh ret0rl holds about S.5 lOunis
~ coal, from which the gas 10 driven
OF by heat Ui more than 1000 deg.
Fahrenheit The solid matter that re.
mains Ia the tBtDrt alter tie volatile
substances gU Oh in the gas IL known
a. gas coke, which IH usel by the brew.
cries ami iuuudrlvf, and Tor heaters.
Gas carbon IL also iOund o. au incfusta.
ton on the inside OF the Iut1Tls, anu In |
the substance Of which car50uz or can.
dies for electric lights arc composed. |
IL isnot used here Tor that purpose, |
however, HB the ChfbIls arc made by |
cheaper procois AM shipped here.
IL II not thu purpose mere 10 give a |
delgii Of the gas forming pt0uesi, |
though u brief sEvtOh may not be uu. |
interesting. When the gas whlCn con. |
tsiua the volatile products iBayss tho |
retofts it plVeg up O. aud along u |
hydraulic 81, ~ While cooling en- |
sues, by a condensation OF |
vnp0rs anu the taking uut OF tho tar |
PARTICLES. From the main It goes into |
a series Of u tubes where 4. IL cooled in |
this Salt Lake works 10 65 degrees r.,
aud IN thus largely freed from its im- |
puritief. Tho gas In brought down TO |
the temperature ttated In order 10 pro- |
duce the quality used here for illu.
mlnating aud heating. II the standard |
OF Temperature wac higher there would
be more gas, but Ia quality would not
be 10 rich.
In separate building from that In
which the cooling pipe are placed IL
an engine which performs the duty Of
an "eXhauster," reducing tue pressure
on the retorts, drawing the gas through
fine selves and forcing Ii Into con
densefs. Then the gas IL washed by
being passed through scrubbeT OF
coke, under spray OF water. IL Is
next passed through purifiers contain.
INK slaked lime between HlTainers, and
~ there relieved Of IT, sulphuretted
hydrogen aud other impurities
which render IL use dangerous
10 life. From there II II con.
Quoted to the meter which measures
quantities up 10 ton million feet. Then
Il goes 10 the gGshOl1ef from which It
10 distributed through tho mains. From
the record kept by the muter's hgure
the company can compute the entire
quantity OF gAg that has been manu-
inctured since the plant was placed In
operation. When the new furnaces
now being constructed are completed
there viii be siK ia operation, with q
capacity for using about ~ tons " coal
per day Ia gus production, or about
seven and half million feet VI gas
per month.
NOTES,
The Goldhug aud Gold Rule mines
In San BuTnRiinO county, Cal, were
'old on Saturday Tor $4,000.
EphThim Enterprises Why can't we
nave a business meu'a association Or