Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-21
SALT LAKE CITY IN IT
Two Large Artificial Refrigerating
Plants Established.
J. N. MARRIOTT TO THE FRONT.
Metropolitan Meat Servicc-Wiu
Find II at the Palace.

j. NJ. Marriott. the genial and enter
| prlslng proprietor of the Palace ment
| market, with characteristic push ana
enterprise has added to the list of Salt
Lakes metropolitan achievements two
large cold storage plants, Il compare
| lively recent invention for creating
/ artificial cold storage. These are the
first artificial cold storage plants es-
tablished in this city and this fact
makes their advent worthy of more
than passing general interest. In his
business career In this city Mr.. Mar
rlott has ever demonstrated his ability
to lead all competition and this latest
| acquisition to his already most excel
lent service puts him ahead of the
| front rank.
Two anhydrous ammonia cold storage
plants have been constructed. one at
the Palace meat market 265 Main
street, and the other at his abattoirs,
located at the old Church Farm. on the
corner of Second West and Twelfth
south streets. a representative of the
News" accompanied by the proprie
tor, was shown over the Church farm
Strengthening house yesterday after
noon. The main building is about
25xl00 feet. and careful inspection
shows that neither time nor cxpense
have been spared in fitting up for the
economical dressing of beef hogs,
".
facility has been provided for rapid
effective work. A system of over
head railway Is devised, leading from
the dressing room to the drip and re-
frigerating rooms. The beef when
dressed Is lifted by means of ropes and
pulleys to the overhead rails where
hook with flange wheel fitting the
track is hooked into the hind leg of the
beef and he is transported along the
overhead tracks to the drip room. In
side are various tracks leading to all
parts of the room and finally into the
refrlgerating room. where the meats
are allowed to cure or ripen for use
This room is capable of containing
about sixty steers at one time. and like
the drip room is fitted with the tracks
and artificial cold storage pipes. When
the curing process is finished the beef
is run through another door to the
weighing and loading room, where
wagon stands ready to receive them,
after they are weighed. There is alb
solutely no lifting or laborous work
about the handling of 1000 pound
steer, as he may be pushed along the
track with slight pressure of the
hand. The farm and buildings are
provided with departments for the
growing and fattening of cattle. hogs
sheep and poultry, while there are
features of the Strengthening process
that are necessarily brutal, the class
and quality OF the live stock furnished
by Mr.. Marriott for his trade would
delight the eye of the connoiseur in
meats.
MEAT AS AN ABSORBENT.
1t is a well known fact among
the medical profession that meat is a
natural absorbent, and when placed
in ice cold storage, the quality of ice
in measure makes the quality of the
meat. All of these Objectionable fea-
lures are removed with artificial cold
storage as In this case, the vaporized
ammonia circulating in the cold storage
pipes, takes up all moisture and impur-
| tiles freezing 1t to the pipes in Ice
crystals, leaving nothing in the storage
room but dry pure air, thus keeping the
meat pure, sweet and clean at all
| times.
THE REFRIGERATING PLANT.
A brief description of these refriger-
! ator plants will he of interest to those
not familiar with artificial refrigera-
ton. AS before stated anhydrous am
| monia Is the basis or principle of the
| invention, the ammonia being in
| liquid form and placed in iron tanks,
| One of these tanks contain about 500
pounds, an amount sufficient for charg
| ing pipe service of about l 500 or 1000
feet, the size of the Palace Meat Mar
| ket plant. There is less, and simpler
machinery used in this artificial sys-
TEN of refrigeration than would natur-
ally be supposed, considering the
| amount of square feet refrigerated.
| The largest and it might me said. the
| only machine Is the compressor pump,
| occupying a floor space of about 3xG
| feet, propelled by nOiseless three
| phase electric motor. G. f. Bein, gem
eral manager of the Ideal Refriser-
| ating & Manufacturing company of
| Chicago, who superintended the con-
| struction of the plant, very kindly con-
| scented to explain the entire system to
the News" reporter, who, in company
| with Mr. Marriott and Mr.. Bein made
| an inspection of every detail. The
compressor pump is quite unique
piece of machinery, having more the
| appearance of an upright steam engine
| than of n pump There are two large
| fly-wheels, one on either side, a crank
| shaft and n piston working in n cylin-
| der-the cylinder however being the
| COMPRISING chamber, where the con-
densed or dead gas is compressed for
| replenishing the feed pipes to the cold
| storage rooms. Connected with the
pump by means of piping is a large
iron tank about seven feet high by
| eight feet in length, oval at each end.
| Inside this tank is n 5O0-foot coil OF
pipe. constantly submerged in cold
| water, and this tank is the condenser,
cooling and condensing the ammonia
gas that becomes heated through
the compressing process.
HOW 1T WORKS.
Now let us suppose that the liauid
ammonia has been supplied to the re-
ceiving tank underneath the con-
denser The electric current is turned
on to the motor and the big pump at
once commences to take up the dead
| ammonia gas from the return pipes. AZ
| the ammonia Is forced through the
| pump II becomes heated to n tempera-
ture of about 100 degrees of Fahrenheit
Through the pump 1t passes into tho
large coil Of pipe In the cooling tank
and through that into the ammonia
| tank under II. and then to the feed
| pipes leading to the various refrigerat-
| ing rooms. In the Main street market
| there are three large cold storage
rooms in addition TO the coil of pipe
| that runs along the refrigerator under
| the sales counter. One of these cold
storage rooms is on the main floor and
| Is about EXPO feet in size with plate
glass and mirrored front, so that the
| treats may be seen by customers OF the
| market. one of larger dimensions and
| one Of smaller are located in the base
| ment where is also the refrgerating
machine. Each room is fitted with
long coils of pipe on either side of the
room and In these pipes is kept up a
| continuous circulation of anhydrous
ammonia gas. The point at which the
| ammonia ceases to be n llQuid and Is
converted Into gas. is at the junction
of the feed pipe and the pipe