, 1908-04-25
MADE HEAT
ALL RIGHT
COAL FROM NEW NINE PROVES
BETTER THAN HANNA IN THE
ELECTRIC LIGHT TEST.
Fireman Pronounced Il Better Than
Some Coal He Has Used and All
Officers Of Light Company Pleased
at Result of First Practical DEM
onstration of Quality.
BY w. s. Ingham.


In front of the big new water-tube
boilers at the plant of the electric
light company. Now, a heap of coal
handily placed to the furnace doors OF
the boilers is not a rare or wonderful
occurrence, and this heap consisted
OF about ten tons of rather ordinary
looking coal, much broken up and Ger,
tainly considerably air-slacked. But
the coal was the center of attraction
for a group of perhaps thirty citizens,
many Of them among the most promi.
nent of the business and professional
men of the city.
Engines Worked Nicely.
Out in the engine room of the plant
the powerful machinery was running
smoothly and almost noiselessly. The
new 200-horse power Corless engine
was driving the great fiy-wheel of the
alternating generator, sending out a
A ampere current with a head of III
volts, and the rapidly revolving arma,
lures of the direct current dynamos
were keeping the indicators of the
volt-meters and amper-meters upon the
switchboard steadily pointing to 115
and 425, respectively. There was no
trouble in the engine room, and Engi-
neer Gus johnson wore a smile upon
his face.
Attention Given to Coal.
But the men near that heap of coal
had nc eye for machinery last night.
The attention of all was fixed upon the
coal, upon the movements of Carl Lar
son, the fireman, and uron the indica-
tor of the steam gauge high up near
the top of the boilers. The Indicator
was creeping up toward the ITO mark.
Carl Larson smiled and shut off the
draughts. The indicator slowly fell
to 100 pounds and remained there,
varying a pound on either side of the
mark as the load upon the boilers fuct-
uated.
Fifteen minutes later the Indicator
still Rugged the 100 mark. Again Lar
son smiled and nodded his head. It'll
do" he remarked. That's fine. Bet.
ter than Hanna" Then the crowd
smiled, grinned, in fact, and one or
two of the younger members went into
the dark corner behind the boilers and
danced a horn-pipe.
Real Cause for Generalization,
And, indeed, there was real cause
for congratulation, not only for the
members of that particular crowd,
which represented most Of the stock
holders of the Citizens Coal company,
but for the citizens of the city of Lar
annie and of Albany county generally.
The heap of coal was the first of the
product of the newly opened-up mine
of the Citizens Coal company to reach
Laramie, and the first TO be put to a
practical test of its usefulness in a
commercial sense.
In every way the coal upheld the be-
liefs of its most ardent supporters.
The load upon the machinery of the
electric light plant at the time of the
test last night, was the greatest of the
twenty-four hours, and the verdict of
Fireman Larson, confirmed by Engi-
neer Johnson and reiterated by Su-
perintendent Kelim, can be taken as
authoritative. The coal tested, in spite
of the fact that it was the first to come
from the bottom of an old shaft and
much a~ir-slacked, is good, better than
Hanna coal"
Means Much to Community.
No one can prophesy what may be
the result of the test last night. In
this state of civilization a source of
power, easily accessible, cheaply pro-
duced and economical when used,
means anything and everything. 1t
can be made to mean to this city a
fulfllment of all the promises that its
other great natural resources have
prompted during the past twenty
years.
The availability of the coal depends
upon the Laramie, Hahns Peak and
Pacific, whose rails run within a mile
of the shaft. It's cost to the consumer
depends upon the Citizens Coal com
pany and its ability to place its pro,
duct upon the cars at a low cost. The
economic usa of the coal is proved