The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-26
HOTEL GOSSIP.

of the SaIt Lake refrigerating plants is
completed he will journey south and
extol the virtues of cold storage to the
farmers and others engaged in the
creamery business. Mr.. Inman super
intended the building of five-ton re-
frigerating plant for the Ogden cream
cry this past summer. Since the intro
duction of cold storage into Utah the
quality of butter and the prices OBJ
tanned by the farmers for their dairy
products have increased materially. In
the summer months when grass was
plentiful and butter of the best quail
ity, the owners had to part with it at
reduced prices to avoid the loss that
would accrue from having it turn ran
cid from the effects of heat and scar
city in the supply of ice. Now they
can freeze it without injuring the quail
ity and hold on to it until there is
some sort of profit in the sale.
The past year has seen big strides in
the application of refrigerating ma
chinery to cold storage purposes; but
strange to say the southern people
seem averse to the use of artificial ice.
The process is very simple" said Mr..
Inman, I'VE buy anhydrous ammonia
at IS cents a pound from the Armour
company of Chicago, and it requires
about eighty-seven pounds to operate
a fiye-ton plant. Anhydrous ammonia
is naturally volatile, and when 1t is
exposed to the atmosphere it expands
into a gas. 1t takes a large number or
heat units to convert water into steam,
that is, from the liquid to the gaseous
state. In the same way when ammonia
volatilizes it absorbs heat from the sur
rounding substances. Our process is
this. The ammonia is subjected to a
pressure and then turned into coil
pipe in a tank through a small nozzle.
1t expands into gas and extracts the
heat from the pipe The tank is filled
with a strong brine that flows con-
stantly in and out This brine is in
contact with the cold coil pipe and it
self assumes temperature much below
that required to freeze fresh water.
The cold brine is then pumped through
pipes that line the walls of the cold
storage room, and that is all there is
to the operation.
Judge A. w. Lightner of Boise has
found his way to town. and is having a
touch of metropolitan life The judge
was at one time editor of the New York
Mail and Express; at another he filled
the position of foreign editor of the SUM-
and later on in life he took charge OF
the Washington correspondence OF the
latter paper. AS a politician the judge
d
dragged ex-Congressman Lemuel Ely
Quigg, at one time city editor of the
New York Tribune, from obscurity into
prominence. He says that he made
Quigg and people that know Qulgg
never lose an opportunity to rank the
Judge with Christopher Columbus and
Michael Angelo. "Sheehan may have
downed Croker in the Ninth New York
assembly district" said the judge, and
l.. nix
Tamnany politics, but if he thinks that
the boss has been routed and is now on
the run, let him look out for himself;
that's all / have to say.
S. Masaki of Toxic, Japan, arrived in
town yesterday, and registered at the
Knutsford. Mr.. Masaki was educated
in the engineering school of the Leland
Stanford, jr., university, and was grad
uated with the class of 81. He returned
to Toxic in the fall of that year, and
since that time has been acting as con-
sulting engineer for one of the large
Japanese electrical concerns. He is now
on a five months leave of absence, with
the object in view of making careful
and protracted examination into cleo
trical power transmission and the
working details of electric traction To
I1OIIOW he Will NlSlI lAiC PieNAAee7 49,
Big Cottonwood canyon, and then Will
go south to inspect the Telluride power
plant. When he returns to Japan ne
will Immediately assume charge OF the
construction and operation of twenty.
mile electric railroad in the vicinity OF
Toxic.
Mr.. Masaki spoke very intelligently OF
the social, economic and political condi-
lions existing in Japan at the present
Of the
country is such as to make railroad
building the next thing TO an lmpossl-
bility. We have one road that has to
pass through no less than twenty tun-
nels, and what is true of one would De
true of all. The projected electric ROAD
in whose interests, l. am making TINS
tour will encounter not only tunnels,
but we must build bridge that VIII
7 cost in the neighborhood OF million
and half yen.
Immediately following the Japanese
/ Chinese war we enjoyed an ,unDrece-
| dented period of prosperity. Just such
a time as you are having now. All our
manufactures were working overtime,
| and had more orders than they could
possibly attend to. The inevitable resuls
! happened. The mills over-produced
! the demand gradually fell off; the man
! ufactories shut up shop, and now we
] are ScTdpluS dlOuS d~o U.s. W = SSs-A'
| has been the course of events since the
! world began, and think that the Unit
4 ed States will have the same things &c
| contend with in a year or two as we
are having now
D. F. Wetherby of Boston is here III
! the interests of one of the large shoe
and leather houses of New England: He
| was at the Kenyon last night and said:
1.-THE rise in the price of leather has
not caused any falling off in the de-
mand for shoes; on the. contrary
strange as it may seem, the demand
! has increased perceptibly since the adj
vance. 1t is easily accounted for My
customers didn't take very kindly tic
! the statements 1 used to make to them
as each succeeding season rolled by.
Those statements that the price OF
leather and shoes had been depressed
/ since last saw them 1t meant a loss
on every pair of shoes they had in
stock They were always afraid that
| the price would fall still more, and
were a bit scary about giving orders
| Now that the price is going up they are
more confident and the result is Iahave
| taken more orders this time than al
any other since I've been on the road. y
Thomas Noonan of Bayonne, N. j., a
well known mining man, is at the Ken
yon.
iKenyon.-C. A. ingalls,, Boston; Mrs
| II MoNanara Miss Nav Mcnamara