Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-15

considered separately, and we will
hrst take up the steam plant.
The pumping plant must, of course,
be located at the springs, aud should
comprise two compound duplex steam
pumps, each of * million gallons
daily capacity at ordinary rating, and
two steel boilers of the ordinary hori-
zontal, tubular type, ~ inches dian1-
eter by 10 tt. long and nominally of 20
horse power each. The pumps should
be compound so as to secure a maxi
mum of economy in fuel consumptio
but so arranged that at times of fire
low pressure cylinders, so that they
may be run at high speed with low
steam pressure.
The boilers should be substantially
set in brick work, and so connected
that they could be used separately or
together as desired; they should have
triple riveted butt joints. and be pro
portioned for high pressure.
There should also be Jet conden-
sor, taking its water supply from the
river and of capacity for but one
pump. as both pumps would be used at
but infrequent intervals.
l estimate the cost of a steam plant
as above outlined, complete and ready
for i'm mediate and continued use, at
about $3.50 90.
This estimate is intended to cover
first class work and construction
throughout, including all necessary
ppurtenances, as feed pumps and
heaters, and all fittings, etc. such as
piping. connections, pipe-covering, re-
lief valves, etc. Upon completion of
the new plant, the present pumping
station shorid be abandoned. 1 have
not considered it wise to use the boiler
now in use as it is entirely too small
to justify the expense of setting it up
in the new station. The present pump
is likewise too small, and not as eco
Tomical as compound pump.
This plant would be ordinarily op-
Grated with but one pump and boiler,
although the second boiler should be
kept filled with hot water, so as to be
put under steam as quickly as possible.
Power Station.
This shorld be brick building, di-
vided into pump and boiler rooms. the
former about % by "a feet, and the
latter % by 50 feet. and should be
neat and substantial in design but
not elaborate. The foundation walls
should be of stone, and the water
tables and window and door sills of
cut stone, and the roof sloping and
covered with sheet metal. The pump
room should have a hardwood floor,
an Oil finished beaded pine ceiling,
the walls finished with a five foot high
painted wainscot, and above the
psnted The Gpsh beer p'1oesne0 should
have brick floor and plain unfinish-
ed brick walls. No fuel shed is con-
templated. There should be built
adjoining the boiler room a neat
brick chimney; it should have a hex
agonal base and circular shaft, and
be sixty feet in height above the
ground, having a f1ue SO inches in
diameter. The flue would be built Of
fire brick extending about two-thirds
of the height OF the chimney, and be
independent of the outer shaft.
l estimate the cost of the station
and chimney complete, to be about
S2o4O, including pump and boiler
foundations.
west side of High street, near the
would bring the floor just above high
water level of the river.
Electric Pumping.
If the pumping is to be done by
electric power. an entirely different
plan seems desirable, as follows:
The pumps at the spring should
comprise two triplex vertical power
pumps. These should be duplicates,
and each of a capacity of about 500
gallons per minute, and SO H. p. mo-
tors would be required. In addition,
the present steam pump should be re-
moved and set up in the electric sta
ton, and take its supply from the
head race near the Centralia mills,
for use as an auxiliary during fires.
The electric pumps would be con-
trolled from both the electric station
and the pump house; they would be
thoroughly reliable for constant SER
vice, and would require minimum of
probably but once a day.
Ordinarily but one day would be in
service, but both would be used in
case of fire or whenever it was de-
sirable to quickly fill the tower.
The use of river water during fires
taken from the head race would not
be Objectionable, as the steam pump
would not be called into service except
as last resource, and hence but in
and for short periods, ard
the water should be taken from above
the outlet of any sewer, and be of as
good quality as that now supplied.
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oughly reliable, it would be necessary
for the Electric Company 20 install
another boiler and engine, also to
keep one boiler under steam constant
ly, and to pump frequently enough to
a high average level of
water in the tower.
This plan involves the laying of ad-
ditional pipes to connect the present
mains with the fire pump at the cleo
trio station. These should consist of
a line of inch pipe along Main street
from the Cranberry street main to the
electric station, and thence along
street to connection with
the French street main.
This line of pipe, with its hydrants,
valves, ETC., world cost as follows:
$50 lineal fl of in pipe at 9Oc. 1404 90
10 1t OF Ill hydrant co, ,,nectlOnS at lc.. 23 40
inch hydrantS at Observation-Disclosures. SO 90
inch gate valves and boxes at S22.... &c 90
Total. s1497 40
The 10 inch pipe along High street
from the pump house is proportioned
for the two large steam pumps of "a
million Z allons, and could be reduced
for about one-half of it's length to an
3 inch pipe if the smaller electric
pumps were used, though the excess
in size is quite small, and it would be
preferab Bile to use 10 inch pipe for the
entire distance. If this change were
made the saving would amount to