The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01
Ogden, June /
THE POWER PLANT.
THE GREAT ENTERPRISE IN OGDEN
CANYON LOOKED OVER.
Machine shops and Wood Working
shops Nearly Ready-Plan For
Pioneer Day Celebration at the
Works Favored.

and at a LOCALITY where the great pro-
gress Of the region which has taken
place in the last forty-seven years can
be easily shown. 1t should be place
where thousands of people can be as
sembled entertained and instructed.
There is in Ogden or near it such
place and that place is at the camp of
Rhodes Brothers just above the woollen
factory where the big machine shops
and supply houses for the power plant
work are located.
A party of Ogden citizens including
representatives of Salt Lake and Ogden
papers went up in that direction yes
terday to inspect the pipe line and the
machine shops site, but while at the
latter place it's fitness for such pur-
pose was noticed by all. The great
structure will be completed by July l.
the framework being now nearly all
complete.
The main structure could be made
to seat 5000 people. BY that time
much of the great machinery will be
in place and ready for starting; and
this launching of a new and gigantic
enterprise, which is second to none IN
the country except that at Niagara,
should not be allowed TO pass unnotic-
ed.
The Power Dam enterprise is more
than a mere Individual corporation
scheme; signalling as 1T does new
era in manufacturing and develop
ment, it is matter of state IL not Oh
national Importance
]. E Rhodes of Rhodes Bros took
very kindly ito the idea of holding
great celebration there and said he
would turn over the machine shops for
that purpose to the proper parties.
Furthermore he said THE company
would at that time have
SEVEN CAMPS
along between Ogden and the reservoir
site and that these too would be turned
over 30 the use of the public for such
purpose. A barbecue could be ar
ranged for at each camp. A great
state picnic could be arranged and
while picnicking in magnificent Ogden
canyon the guests could be shown the
dam and pipe line power house and in
fact the entire plant of the Stupendous
scheme.
But, to return to the
VISIT TO THE CANYON.
The party was invited to inspect the
work by Rhodes Bros. and at $3.50 the
/ start was made from in front of the
/ company's city offices. There were be
/ sides representatives of the Standard,
Tribune and Herald, the following par
! ties: w. F. Adams, H. H. Henderson,
( Ad Kuhn, Theodore Schansen oacl
1 William Schahseafbaeh, Il. j. kieseI q.
/ S, Wood, F. w. Hart, r. L. Joyce and
IA tNp1l
representative of p. Lorillard, the great
! tobacco merchant, though he was
formerly a contractor and as mem
her of the firm of Campbell & Woods,
worked on the Bear River canal and
other enterprises in this section. Mr.
Quentin is Rhodes Bros agent, sattion-
ed here and provided for the comfort
of the party. Mr.. Hart is the com
pany's draughtsnran and photographed
The route chosen was out Washing
ton avenue and up Twelfth street CIV
ing many in the party their first view
of the new q
UNION PACIFIC SPUR
already completed UP to the machine
shops. Although the route pursued Is
somewhat the reverse Of the loglca
order since it began at the bottom ane
!
the great power still it is the ont
,,suaIlv followed and will be described
il this order ~
Arriving at the machine shops TN
!. marty was met by Contractor j. 4
Rhodes and shown about the buildlng
and grounds The railroad spur run
: through the north end of the big ma
chine shop, the heavy framework
U-bich is u.p and the remainder beini
RAPIDLY completed. This building ma
: already been described in The Herald
hI1t 1T is hard to get an adequate 1de'
of its magnitude and uses from nler
description. 1t is the one rendered %
Mr.. Rhodes for the great celebraltlo
: and will readily accommodate o'oo
: people, leaving space for speaker
= stand and like. Besides the mai
etr,,ct,,re there are lean-to's on eithf
f side for storing the plates useo III mar :
= ing the steel piping. 1T is very mig
: and the lateral beams are already
a Mace TO have the trackage of the gres
: travelling crane placed thereon. IN
4 crane will traverse the whole length
0 the building and can be operated D
h one man. 1t will run by electric powf
/. and with 1t the one operator ca
= handle the heavy steel plates-each en-
= weighs nearly three tons-with perfet
3. ease and great rapidfty In the ea'
d nortion of hte building will be (
d Gated a motor to receive and
2 DISTRIBUTE ELECTRIC POWEl
y which win for the present be brougl
Z from the Street Railway company
Miami the wire being already part
d strung. This electricity will genera
It compressed air for such parts OF II
q machinery as require it and will OPERA
y other machines directly.
The material for the steel piping w
- :. he received by the company in Il
- form of fiat steel plates each weighdr
between two and a half and three ton
These come up on cars and are u
- loaded by the aid of the electric Gran
v This crane, too, in preparing the pipin
= takes one of these plates, first TO Il
Il punching machine which bores aoo
r 900 rivet holes in each edge OF u
S. nine foot long plate. Thence the pla
5. is swung to the rolling machine WINK
N turns the fat sheet into cylindrlc
10 section Of pipe with the rivet holes
" the one edge over the correspondent
ones of the other. Thence the sectlC
IN is swung by the crane to the rivetil
machine and rivets hammered into 4
J., holes by means of a powerful haram
IS operated by compressed air.
y, If A MIGHTY FORCE
1T has to be exerted to put the rivets
place and the work must be we'll dol
N for 200 pounds Of pressure comes
this steel piping, which, by the we
s. rs said to be the largest pipe eV
h. planned to receive so great pressu
o. The punching machine and rolling m
Id chine are already ON cars at the der
waiting to be unloaded.