Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-08
SERVICE FROM
 NEW MAIN GOOD
Increased Pressure Gives t0 Gas Consumers Certain ty of Better Con-
 ditionS
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

When the new main on Naco road upon which the B. company has been working for some time past was cut in on Tuesday evening, an i'm mediate improvement in service was noticed by gas consumers up town. lt at once became evident that much of the past difficulty had been for ever removed and that reliability Of service, even in bad weather, might Nbe depended upon. With the cutting in of this main. pressure was at once doubled. The improvement just completed is not all that has been planned and is now in course of exc cut on by the company There is still much to be done before fhe com pany will be satisfied with the plant which it has taken over.
 Two matters that in the past have given much trouble in the service of gas in Bisbee have now been oD- viated. The small main from the storage reservoir to the town dis tricts was one of these, and the sup ply of oil was the other The old main was a small one, originally a four inch main. and the interior oi the piping at many points had so cor
 
 roded and gathered accretiOns that the actual size of the passage way within was materially less than when originally installed. The new main is nearly double the size of the old, and being clean and open. 1t enables the customers to receive much better pressure than formerly, will keep the pipes clean and open, and avoid stop pages and other most annoying in- conyen- -ences that were formerly only too common.
 In addition to this the system for oil delivery to the plant has been so improved that there is an ample sup ply for the manufacture of gas even in the coldest weather. The reser- voir has always been even larger than required for the storage of an ade- quate gas supply. and the plant as it now stands win suffice for Bisbee for several years to come. General good service can now be expected, though some sections of the city must still be gone over.
 In addition to the work referred to there has been work of importance done at the plant in the way of gener al repairs to the manufacturing equipment and in providing ample re pair parts and emergency machinery New parts and new machinery have replaced old, worn and obsolete parts and machinery, and barr.ng accidents the management states that there should be no shutdown.
 Quality as well as quantity of ga. has required the attention of the management in the general overhaul ing and improvement that was under taken when the E. ]. company tool over the psznt lt was found that tn purifying equipment had become yer, foul and was really worse than use less. The gas for puridcation i passed through two compartments the first containing prepared shaving to catch the tar, and the second irO oxides to remove the sulphur fume and disagreeable odOrs. The Ovel hauling and repairing and refitting c this part of the plant was a source c considerable expense. When take over, these purify ng tanks had b, come so filthy that they in no wis answered the purpose for which the were intended, but now in this r' spect the quality of gas furnished better than ever before And whil this was going on further experiment were conducted, looking toward in proved quality, and these were pc fected so that in the gas now fu nished there is an increase of he; units
 Yet what has been done is but or step n the plans of the R. !. compal to establish good service It is sti necessary to go over the pipes ~ the mains of the whole town in der to obtain the results that al planned. This win involve servic, and laterals and where clogging ma ter S found it must be removed. Tn