El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-20
PLANT
THOROUGHLY
MODERN
System to Be In Working
Order, April, 1911-Cost
Not Over 500, 1000.
OPERATION rs CHEAP
AND VERY SANITARY

The garbage and sewage disposal
plants for which the city is again ad-
vertising for bids after it's failure TO
receive satisfactory proposals last
March. when Herring & Fuller, Of New
York city, were the engineers, now
seems certain to be constructed
The plant is to cost not over 500, 900
when In full opera tiOn This is covered
by contract betW cen the city and the
present consulting engineer to the ef-
feet that if the bids received in re-
Spouse to the present advertisements
exceed the appropriation, then the con-
cutting engineers viii themselves con-
struct the plant within the guaranteed
cost
Plans Artistic.
The plans which are very elaborate
show a power house of unusually pleas
ing architectural appearance for build
ings Of this class The main building is
46 feet wide by 6S feet long and two
stories high, and will be strictly fire
proof construction throughout
In connection with this building there
is an extension which contains
100000 gallon pumping plant by which
the city sewage is to be lifted from
the main sewer near the roof of the
building, where it Will be screened and
thence flow TO sewage publication
system three fifths of a mile distant.
The refuse Instructor has a. capacity
TO convert all sorts of garbage trash.
manure and dead animals into ashes
and clinker at the rate of three tons
an hour. 1t is stated that a large horse
becomes ashes IN an hour and a half.
The consulting engineers take all the
risk and protect the city by $4,000 in
surety bonds, against any sort OF NUS
ance. such as smoke or doors.
Operating Cost Small.
The pumping IS expected to be done
very cheapIy as most of the steam pow
er necessary will be secured by passing
the heat from the burning refuse
through two steam boilers of 125 horse
power each. The pumping plant will be
equipped with scales, toilet rooms,
shower bath. lockers, etc, for the COM
fort and cleanliness Of the men en-
ployed.
The building viii be provided with
both electric and gas appliances for
lighting. and with steam heating sys-
TEN, electric signals and all the best
of modern instruments for testing tenn
eratures, gases and draft power
Converter Is OdorIess.
The sewage purifying plant IS war
ranted TO convert the sewage Of the
city into a clear, OdOrless and germIess
stream of water suitable for irrigation
and harmless as drinking water for
livestock Over an acre IN area will
be covered with a spray of sewage as
it passes from settling chambers to the
filter beds where the final publication
takes place
Purified Sewage for Irrigation
The city is making special provision
to save the purified sewage for frri-
cation or park use. It is said that this
purified sewage is entirely suitable for
street sprinkling and similar purposes.
The negotiations between the city and
consulting engineers have been carried
on for the past two weeks between city
engineer F H Todd and the chief en-
gineer of the Portland company, Fred
P Smith
The completion Of the entire plant 10
required by the first next April. IN time
to prevent the recurrence Of our sewage
troubles next summer