The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-14
NEW PLANT IN OPERATION
Hartman Waterworks System Now
Supplying Railroads in
OGDEN

What is beyond question the most i'm
portant of the many improvements re-
Gently made by the Hartman system, OF
which the least has been said. is the in
dependent waterworks system constructed
during the past year and which is now in
fun operation, supplying all of the water
used by the Hartman lines in Ogden.
This plant is operated by the gravity
system and cost the company approx
mately 100000
BY having its own water system the
railroad is saving virtually S1.20O a month
or S14. 100 a year. paying on the invest
ment about Il per cent During the past
few years the amount paid out to the 10
cal water company for water by the Har-
riman lines increased from a few hun
dred dollars monthly to more than a thou
sand, and it was this heavy increase that
first set the officials of the big corpora
ton thinking.
The same condition confronted the Of
ficials at POcatellO about two years ago
when an independent water system was
built there. The POcatello venture proved
a success and a big saving to the COM
pany. and this prompted the action taken
in this city, as well as the installing of
independent water systems at KEN
merer, Cumberland and a number of 9th
er wyoming and Idaho points. There is
an ever-increasing demand for water by
the railroad people for the reason that
there is a constant Increase in the volume
of business handled.
At Ogden the first that was made known
of the company's plans to build its own
water plant was when the water rights
TO TaylOrs canyon about two and one
half miles southeast of the city. were
purchased. Shortly after this sale appli-
cation was made to the city for a fran
chise for the maintaining of a pipe-line
through the streets, and when this was
secured work was Immediately started on
the construction of the pipeline.
There are three intakes in the line IN
Taylor's canyon, one each in the north
and south forks of the canyon, and the
third at what is known as the city spring.
THE pipe used in the canyon is six and
eight-inch wood pipe. The distance from
The intake In the north FORK OF the can
Won to the canyons mouth is b,SOO rect
From the mouth of the canyon to the
reservoir eight-tnch pipe is used. Inc
line runs along Twenty-siXth street 10
Fillmore, thence 10 Twenty-fifth street
where the reservoir has been constructed
The big tank is constructed of rein
forced concrete and has capacity OF
. 100000 gallons. There are 13l POUNDS
pressure at the static head, which gives
them at the yards Us pounds pressure
where formerly when using the city wa
ter the pressure was between thirty-tlVe
and forty pounds.
From the reservoir the line runs along
TAYLOR avenue to Twenty-sixth street and
then direct to the railroad yards. From
the reservoir to Jefferson avenue ten
inch wood pipe is used and from that point
10 the railroad yards cast iron pipe or the
same dimensions is used From the head
of the line to the yards there is drop
of 1900 feet.
With the possible exception OF one
month in the year the water supply is
more than adequate TO supply all OF the
company's needs and the water is said 10
be OF a better quality than that furnished
by the city plant The water was 1lrsI
turned into the new pipeline on June s
last.
In PocatelO. where the plant has been
in operation since 1895. in addition TO sup
plying water for railroad use, the COM
many houses. of which there are quite
number. are also supplied from this
source The plant at that point IS oper-
ated by a pumping station on Port NeuI
river. The water IS pumped TO IeseI
yoir located upon a hill about 800 feet
higher than the city. The capacity OF
The reservoir is 2500,000 gallons.