Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-28

Inc power pIduL, JUST ABOVE L0'
smelter is in charge of Mr.. A
Knowles, who has been with the com
pany something over two years, anC
during that time he has made a mum
Der of notable improvements. 1t Is {
big plant, generating steam and elec
trio power sufficient to run the entire
installation throughout the grea
works. The electric installation in
cludes Mcintosh engines, each Of
300 XIV; Union Iron Works engines
Of 100 XIV each; l Union Iron Works
engine, Of 200 XIV. The steam and
blower plant includes / Rand engat
of $50 hp.; Allis-C Chalmers engines
of 500 hp. each; 1 Norford blowing
engine of 300 hp.; 3 Murray engines
2 Of $50 hp. and l of l20 hp; AIIis
Chalmers tandem of $50 hp. each
Aires engine of 100 hp. and / ALI:
engine OF 100 hp. There are three
No. 10 Cornersville blowers. with q
displacement Of 300 cubic feet pei
revolution, and three No. SIS.
The electric plant throughout is in
Observation-Disclosures is, the maiI
plant can lend or borrow electric en-
ergy from the concentrator and the
latter can do the same with the main
plant.
There are IL boilers, of which but
six are now in operation. The othe1
five are already equipped for the fuel
oil which is 10 be used so soon as
sufficient of this fuel oil is in Storage
at the property. All but one of the
other boilers is already practically
completed with the fuel burning
attachments, all these Improvements
have been made prior to the starting
up Of the plant, so it will not take
long to change the plant from coal tc
oil. For the six boilers now in com
mission it takes three firemen and
an ash wheeler. When the oil is
installed the work for the II boilers
will be done by one fireman. In
connection with these boilers it will
be interesting to note the manner oi
handling the water. Since ar
Knowles has had charge he has eff
fected changes such as eliminate
practically every particle of the lime
from the water, and for the past year
Il has not once been necessary tC
have a boiler maker at the plant
When the weter flows down from the
reservoir for the boilers il is received
in two large tanks, where it is heated
to $50 degrees, when a soda ash solu
ton passes to a settling tank. The
heating precipitates nearly all the lime
and the soda does the rest. Nj
Knowles has also installed a very
unique measuring device, whereby the
exact amount of water used per day
may be asceTtained. In the settling
tank there is a long box resting upon
a centrally located pivot. One end
of this box is partially inverted. The
water flows into and fills the fiat
portion and partially fills the inverted
and when sufficient has entered the
latter it drops fiat and the other enc
is inverted, and vice versa. There Is
a counting machine connected with
this feed box, registering the number
Of times the boXe changes per day
and as the exact quantity necessary
TO move the box is known 1t Is easy
70 measure the amount used. This
enables the measuring of the warel
accurately. whether It be hot or cold
Throughout the power plant there
is a cleanliness, a rhythm both as e
men and machines that counts i'm
mensely for efficiency The new eI
CINE running a No. 10 blower is ons
OF the smoothest machines eStant
there being practically no Vibration
when IL Is operating to full capacity
The equipment throughout is OF ths
very best, and the service secured il
far above the ayersoe.