The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-16
POWER TROUBLES
THING Of PAST
New Plant Of Utah Light and
Railway Company Given
Thorough Test.
WORKS TO SATISFACTION
OF INSPECTING OFFICIALS
Works Pronounced by Experts
to Be Most Modern in
United States.

''An unqualified success That was
the opinion of officers of the Utah
Light and Railway company and c!ec.
trical experts who were present at the
''tryout' OF the 1000 horse power
steam plant of the company on the east
bank of the Jordan river, between
South Temple and First South street.
Medn esdav afternoon. 1t was only a
"tryout' Of the big new plant OF the
company. which will be pat In full
operation early next month But 1t
was sufficient TO convince every man
present that the days of ''no lights
and stoppage of street cars because one
or more Of the wafer generating plants
was out of commission, was thing
of the past.
The ':tryout'' was sufficient to
demonstrate that the new power plant
OF the company has few, if any equals
in the country. 1t was stated, and
the test proved the statement, that
the now power plant is the most up
to-date of any in the United States,
which in this case means the world
Under Control Of One Man.
Shortly before the inspection party
reached the new station the fires were
started under the north boilers. From
only one man was required TO watch
the furnaces. The coal is automatically
Ia ised 10 thc carriers from a large bin
on the north side Of the building, is
carried automatically TO the long
feeder above the fire boxes, is fed au-
tomatically to the furnaces. the ashes
drop automatically into a receptacle be-
low the fire CRATES and are carried out
Of the building in small cars.
4 ho In
1000 pounds of coal per hour were be-
ino fed into the furnace, yet so perfect
was the working of the automatic
stokers that nothing except a little
white smoke came from the big stack
to the north OF the building.
Unlimited Power Generated,
With 200 pounds of steam registered
the order was given to turn on the
turbo- generator. Slowly the big wheel
began to turn. The man in charge
turned on more steam and the generator
began to buzz. Within less than five
minutes the Indicator showed that it
minute, and that power enough to
supply the street car system and a
part of the lighting system of this city
was being generated. There was but
one set of boilers in operation. Yet it
was sufficient to demonstrate that with
tho other set of boilers in operation
all light and power trouble in Salt
Lake City will be thing of the past.
The new building, detailed descrip-
tion of which has already been pub
lshed in The Tribune. is model of
compactncss and convenience. In short.
it is the most up-to date plant of its
kind in the world
Prominent Officials Inspect Pant.
The special inspection party was COM
posed Of William II. Bancroft. president
of the Utah Light and Railway company;
Joseph 3. Wells, general manager; r.
f.. Hunt, assistant general manager. F.
II. Knickerbocker, secretary; D. L. Bur
lev. general passenger agent of the
Oregon Short Line: o. A. Honnold, elec
trical engineer, Utah Light and Rail
way company; C.. A Cohn, supcrintend-
cnt of power stations; l.. l.. Dagron,
engineer; Alex Bong. roadmaster; W.
M, Scott. superintendent of electric
lines and service, Will Browne, auditor;
O. S. Layford contracting engineer for
the estinghouse Church com
pany Of New York; j. c. Jones, local
manager for the Westinghouse Electri-
cal company; r. II. Parker, local man
ager for the General Electrical company !;
II. A. Brinkerboff. resident. engineer in
charge for the Westinghouse Church
Kerr company; James Charey, in charge
Of automatic stokcrs; j. F. Thompson,
Westinghouse company, and William
Swaner. chief operator of the Jordan
station