Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-08-05

of the electric locomotive are being
made between Rochester and Buffalo.
The Pennsylvania Is now operating
electric trains between Atlantic City
and Philadelphia with much success.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad Is operating its trains
from Stamford. Connecticut. 10 New
York by. electric power.
These rapid changes are leading to
one end-the Capitalization of power
development and distribution. They
point TO the time, and at no distant
day, when great central plants will be
located at the various mine centers
and the electric power will be trans
mitted and distributed to railroads, in
dustrial plants. cities and the various
institutions where electrical energy is
needed. The great railroads will oper-
ate their trains by electricity, and the
passengers will be freed from the an
noyance of smoke and cinders: and the
railroad locomotives and the railroad
yards which are now the most dnsight-
ly places in our cities. will become
comparatively clean and free from
smoke. Furthermore. the Introduction
Of cheaper electric power will displace
the scores Of smoke belching chimneys
and the befogged atmosphere of our
cities will be cleared. and the city
clean and comfortable, will become a
reality and not a dream"
Professor Fernald but recently COM
pleted an estimate showing the differ
ence in cost and operation of 600
horse power Observation-Disclosures en-
CINE and a 00-horse power steam en-
CINE, also the difference between the
cost and operation Of a 6.OOO-horse
power Observation-Disclosures engine and
q e.000-hor power steam engine. In
Offering the estimate, Professor Fer
maid declares he has made the best
possible showing for the steam engine
while that Of the producer gas plant Is
but q fair figure. In conclusion he
adds, 81 believe that the producer gas
plant can better the figure given, but
doubt very much whether the steam
plant figure can be excelled. even II II
can be reached"
Professor Fernald gives the cost Of
the 6o0-horse power gas plant at s4s.-
600 and the steam plant at $4,000. a
difference OF 5000 In favor of the
steam plant Operating both plants
300 days, twenty-four hours day.
the total cost for coal in the producer
gas plant would be So. $50: in the steam
plant, $3.50. The total cost and fixed
charged for the gas producer plant for
the year Is SIC. 262; for the steam plant
$21.S7S. The total saving per year by
operating the producer gas plant is
given at S5,l16. With the increased
cost of the gas producer plant over the
steam plant, II Is estimated that 1t
would take nineteen months of opera
ton of the producer plant to pay the
difference by saving in operating ex
penses.
difference in the cost OF a gas pro-
Queer plant of 5000 horse power and a
steam plant of the same horse power.
the cost being placed at $4,000. Rum
ming these plants continuously for one
year. the gas producer plant would re-
quire 81 900 tons Of coal at $3.50 a ton.
or $50, 500. while the steam plant would
consume 1900 tons at a cost of s105.-
0o0. The total operating expenses and
fixed charges Of the 5000 horse power
gas producer plant are given at s141,-
as. while the steam engine would cost
s219. 535. The total saving per year by
operating the gas producer plant of
6 .000-horse power over the same horse
power steam engine is placed at ST.
$50, surely a figure that would appeal
to the big manufacturers.
That the United States has not taken
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the agitation now going on in Europe
against the waste of fuel. The gas
engine has already obtained high de-
in Germany and England
has pronounced II a success. An emf
nent British engineer in discussing the
waste Of the fuel resources the other
day said in a London paper, 1T has
been estimated that some 81. 900 600 tons
OF coal are annually converted into
steam power at mines and factories
in the United Kingdom. and that on an
average, the consumption of coal per
indicated horse power per hour is five
pounds. When IT is remembered that
in an economical plant the consump-
tom should be but two pounds per in
horse power per hour some
'ocd VIII oe sdiHcu OF tne eHoiHlous
Of waste that is going on in
our industries.
in other Industrial operations. there
Is probably a further 5000 tons
while for domestic purposes.
the consumption exceeds 30.600. 900 tons
per annum. on this 162. e0OO10 tons
nearly 25 per cent. Is wasted in various
ways. 1t is a truism to state that the
backbone OF our Industrial prosperity
lies in having enormous supplies of
coal at our doors. and that cur indus