The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-11

HEATING PLANT
Is PROJECTED
Company Organized to Supply Steam
and Hot Water.
NEW SYSTEM is DEVISED
FRANCHISE TO BE ASKED FROM
THE CITY COUNCIL.
NEW SYSTEM is DEVISED

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! the action of that body the fran
/ chise of the Citizens Heating & Power
! company, articles for the incorporation
of which Will be filed with the secretary
/ of state earlier in the day. The nom
\ inal capital of the company is $4,000
/ but as soon as the franchise is granted
+ il viii be increased to $500 900.
The purposes of the company are de-
fined in this one sentence: ITO install
f a plant in Salt Lake by which steam
/ heat may be distributed throughout the
! business section and hot water through
the residential sections The officers
/ Of the company are: President. g H
Thompson; vice president. r. Z. Jen-
/ kins, secretary, John : Marley, treas
urCr. Joseph Nelson, with the following
/ incorPOrators; f. H. Airs, g. H.
Thompson. Joseph Nelson. W. c. Orem.
A. ]. Orem, Edward +. Jenkins, John
= Manley. l. n. Curtis, r. j Evans
and J. J. Daynes.
l. II. Curtis of Evans, Curtis &
Sweet. managers of the American Falls
4 Water Power company of Idaho, IS
the principal promoter of the new COM
pany- For more than three years he
has been considering and devising some
plan by which Salt Lake could have
system of heat so perfect that there
would be a uniform distribution at all
without the dust and inconvenience
which is generally entailed when houses
and business structures are heated on
the individual system.
Mr.. Curtis said yesterday: There are
perhaps forty successful heating plants
in the United States distributed among
the leading cities. The first of these
were installed about twenty years ago,
and they were fat failures for the rea-
son that the men who promoted and
constructed them knew practically
nothing of the science of heating as It
is understood today No one can begin
to estimate the amount OF money that
was sunk. but like all great achieve
mentS. there has been compromising
good from those failures, and today we
have a class of men who have become
experts in devising schemes along the
lines which our company intends to
follow.
THE cities of Detroit and Indianap-
oils were among the first to experiment
with this problem. and the latter city
has today the best equipped heating
system to be found in the United
States. and it now completes success
fully with two natural gas companies.
7 have been working on this subject
for the past three years. and during
that time 7 have made several trips to
eastern cities TO look over the plants in
each place and to gather such infOrma-
ton as would prove valuable in giving
Salt Lake d system of steam and hot
water heating as would be second to
none in the country.
During my Investigations I became
acquainted with W. II. SchOtt of the W
H SchOtt Engineering q Construction
company of Chicago, and he has fur
nished me with much valuable inf0T-
nation for the successful formation
and operation of our company He has
made a personal examination Of the
conditions obtaining in Salt Lake, and
three Of the engineers connected with
his company have done likewise, and all
agree, after going into the matter thor
OUghly, that a heating plant can be in
stalled here that. if properly managed,
VIII prove satisfactory to the patrons
and be a source of profit to the persons
who may invest their money in the en-
terDrise.
Recognized as an Authority.
Some time ago the General Electric
company of Schenectady, N Y. wrote
US that Mr.. Schott was a recognized
authority on the development of heat
ing plants. and it was largely for that
reason that we requested him to visit
Salt Lake and look over the ground
here. He erected the present plant in
Indianapolis. and it was built along
strictly original lines. 1t differs from
the general run of heating systems in
having a high pressure main feeding
the low pressure mains in the center Of
the system.
To show how thoroughly successful
this system has proved in indianapolis.
1 viii cite the fact that a new building
just finished there has no chimneys, the
builders concluding that. as the neces-
sary heat could be obtained from the
city steam heating plant, there was no
reason for the construction of flues,
thereby cutting down the construction
expenses of the building by tidy fig
ure. As a matter of fact. when It came
time 10 insure the building the insuT-
auce companies gave the owners the
lowest rate Of interest ever placed on
an office and business building in the
state. That fact alone is enough TO JUS
tify us in believing that such system
I'm Salt Lake would prove profitable.
According to our plans, we viii be
able To furnish heat for an ordinary
ten-room house in this city for from $40
TO $40 per year. We propose to furnish
heat to business buildings on what is
known as the meter system that is,
there VIII be a meter in each business
structure to show to the inspectors the
amount Of heat used in each individual
building and the minimum cost there
of per month viii be s., Or-50 cents per
1000 pounds of condensation By this
method Of regulating the rates the cost
10 each individual owner viii be re-
duced to the lowest possible figure"
Asked as 20 details of the project. as
far as the constructive features were
concerned, Mr. Curtis said he could an
SWer that question better after the city
council had passed on the subject In
a general way, however he could say
that il was his idea to have one general
distribution power house. located in
such a position in the city as to best
meet all contingencies and emergencies.
= distinct feature Of the plan Of the
company provides for the distribution
If steam or hot water from the general
ing or power house so that when it
reaches the extreme end Of the pipe
lines there viii be a saving in the cost
of fuel. an item of no small Importance
I'm the successful operation of the COM
pany. If the franchise is granted il is
proposed to begin the construction work
of the power station Immediately. as
well as the building of the conduits and
the laying of the pipes therein. As re-
CARDS this latter phase Of the under
taking il is proposed to do the work in
sections in order that the city streets
and tho traffic thereon shall be dis
tuTbed or hindered as little as possible
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