The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-14
c AGDEN BUREAU.
business and Editorial ONCE SO
Utah Loan & Trust Building.
Telephone 1875.
Ogden, August II.
FOR THE POWER PLANT.
Details of Building For royvcr House
Progress at Machine shops-f-1pe
Laying Soon TO Commence.

Work on the power house for the Pho
neer Elective Power company viii like
ly be started this week. The contract
with Mr.. Fisher for it's erection calls
for the completion Of the structure by
Nov. l.
The brick, as has already been pub
lished, is to be of the kind known TO
the trade as the Anderson Pressed
brick, to be made ait that companys
old plant at harrisvil.e by Joseph T.
Johnson. There will be required IN all
about 305, eco brick, 100000 being for in
side walls and 125,O0O for weather
fl onEage. The stone for trimmings will
be from the Diamond quarries at This
tie, while the rough foundation stone
Will be from local quarries.
THE PIPE LAYING.
will doubtless be under way now in a
few days. Already Rhodes Bros. have
reaay ana d v4sr. to Inc macn4ne snops
yesterday showed TO The Herald re-
porter that others are being turned out
AFT a rapid rate.
The machine shops are about the
most complete and best equipped tCr
doing heavy work of any in the west.
They were put up specially for the con-
struction of this pipe but can be used
for other purposes.
The heavy steel plates are swung into
place by the great travelling crane.
1hey are first taAen TO the punching
machine and pu1 in position undel meath
the punches. BY a, turn of a lever the
operator brings the punches down ON
the heavy steel plafe and they go
through with apparently as much ease
as fnrsl- 1cJl1
and elgnty-slX OF these holes are punch
ed in each plate. After being ro4led
iTto cylindrical FORM the PAGES are over
six feet in diameter The tallest man
about the works can walk through cas-
lily. The longitudinal sections are riv-
eted in the shops, the holes being first
reamed out by a machine. The riveES
are put in red hot, being heated in a
furnace near the southeast corner and
VIII be slid down in a glowing stream
to the WoTkmen through a rnsUal chute
The ends of the sections of pipe are
to be riveted together in the trench.
Pegram patent riveter, capable of
exerting 10000 pounds OF pressure on
each rivet is already on the ground
and the pipe connected with the air
compressor in the shops.
Heavy steel bands are to be rfveted
are of steel of the same size as the
pipe and have to be punched CORES
pondGngly.
THE DIPPING TANK
is deep vat with pipes for steam heat
ing running in a network about the
sides and bottom with a cluster of
them in the center. Through these
pipes steam courses, heated to the ut
most capacity by a furnace stationed
at a little distance. The steam is the
same steam that escapes from the
boilers in use for other purposes, but is
heated again at this furnace. This dip
ping tank will contain a
SETTING MASS OF MALTHA
and each section of the pipe is dipped
twice before being taken to the trench.
Quite a colony of skilled workmen
are at this machine shop camp. Man
ager George G. Thompson has about
seventy-five men under his direction.
Notwithstanding the great weight of
the machinery and the fact that work
men Skilled in handling 1T have been
scarce, there have been up to this time
not a single serious accident at these