Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-13
Board Of Health Provides for One
To be Made September 18th.
WHAT IT WILL CONSUME.
Agent Of InstaI Hing Company Declares
That II VIII Fully Meet All
Promised Requirement.

The Deseret Nwes IL In receipt Of the
following letter from the resident or
acting agent for the Dixon Garbage
Crematory company In which some ref
erence Is made TO the test OF the plant
Just installed In this city, and as to an
other which has been arranged to take
place on the 18th inst. The writer Is
Mr.. Rudolph j Decker His letter is
as follows:
Editor Deseret Evening News-Dear
sir;--Belng aware OF some Of the state.
ments contained In your article Of
comment on the operation OF The new
garbage crematory which was con-
structed for this city by the Dixon Gar
bage Crematory company of Toledo o..
| ask you to afford me this opportunity
OF calling your attention to the actual
facts of the situation In hand.
While | appreciate that none OF the
statements made were given by the
executive officer Of the board Of health.
yet unless some Of these statements
are refuted It II but natural that many
OF our citizens viii believe them to be
true, and form an incorrect conclusion
as to the merits OF this new cremator,
According to the terms Of the contract
entered into between the City OF salt
Lake and the Dixon Garbage Crematory
company. 80 tons Of garbage were to be
consumed In "A hours. For two days
preceding the day Of the test, all gar
bage. swill etc, which could be scraped
together was collected, and after hay
ing been weighed was taken to the
crematory, and there stored up in
heaps on the ground and in other con-
yenient places. There was also or
dered five tons of coal, and several tons
Of coke, and both OF these latter were
dumped into heaps inside the crema-
tory.
Last Wednesday morning at o'clock
the first of this stored UP garbage was
dumped into the furnace, and the coal
fire started. Most Of the garbage depos
tied In heaps outside the crematory was
in such state Of putrefaction that
water ran from II, and the total amount
of paper and other cOmbustible matter
put into the furnace during the test did
not amount 10 a minimum weight Of
FIVE tons At o'clock Thursday morn
ing, when there was still four hours
left In which 10 complete the test, the
last scrap Of garbage. which was left
from the total amount supplied for the
test, was put into the furnace and was
then cremated and destroyed. At s
o'clock In the morning, after all the
garbage had been destroyed, guess
was made that Judging from the
amount Of coal remaining on the floor
about 5000 pounds had been used dur
ing the test and In the same manner Of
Judging, that about 200 pounds Of
coke had been used.
II was also reported that the weight
OF the garbage used in the test was q
tons. and that three extra men, al an
expense Of Sc. had been found neces-
sary to run the test. but II was not ex-
planned by the parties who gave this
information that these three extra men
were made necessary because Of s'or'
ing the garbage on the ground outside
Of the crematory.
pr King. health officer Of Salt Lake
city. has arranged that a second test Of
the crematory shall be made on the
18th inst. and II will then be dom0n
strated that this new disposal plant
win come w 20 the specifications under
which Il was built and that II The
board Of health furnishes'30 tons Of gar
bage for cremation. that the same viii
be destroyed within a hours.
Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Com.
nany was established In 1874 and has
since opened more than 30,7l2 savings
accounts. Have vnu an account II