The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-10-27
BIG POWER PLANT
NEAR COMPLETION
Vinita Electric Light, let & Power
company's New Plant is ReVela
tion to Many Vinita People.

A plant, the magnitude Of which few
people in Vinita have come 10 realize
is rapidly nearing completion in this
city. This is the new plant Of the
Vinita Electric Light, Ice and Power
company, located at the corner Of
north Vann street and Flint avenue
In fact this plant. with the exception
Of the installation Of the ice making
machinery probably viii be compelled
this week
The building for this plant has a
floor space Of j 800 square feet, diyid-
ed as follows Engine room fifty by
seyenty-fve feet and twenty-seYen feet
high at the front; ice tank room fifty
five by ffty-fye feet and twenty feet
high; cold storage room hfty-fve by
thirty-fYe feet and twenty feet high;
two small ice storage rooms eighteen
by thirty feet one eight and the other
ten feet high; boiler room forty-fye
by sixty feet This building is con-
structed throughout OF yitrified brick
ard steel, with tarred asbestos roof.
making il absolutely fire proof
All Of the storage rooms are to be
perfectly insulated They will have a
four inch concrete floor, covered with
four inch cork boards, and final cover
ing Of two inches Of concrete. The
ceilings and walls will be lined with
four inches of cork and then plastered
with half inch of cement plaster
AS soon as the old building is aban-
doned an office room 30x50 feet will
be built, facing Flint avenue, adjoin-
ing the new building on the west
Twenty feet of this building will be
used for an Office, while the remainder
will be used for a storage room for
electric light supplies.
The building OF this plant is on a
tract 220x15O feet facing Flint avenue
and 2OOxl50 feet facing the Katy right
ofway Tom Lewis is now making
the ties for a siding that viii be built
to the storage room of this plant, so
that no haul will have to be made to
load ice.
The boiler room is fitted up with
three massive boilers, with combined
capacity of $50 horsepower. These
boilers are all high pressure with $50
pound steam guage.
The engine room is equipped with
one 500 horsepower engine and gener-
ator and one $50 horsepower cross-com-
pound engine This gives the plant
power to supply current for all pur-
poses in Vinita for probably some
years TO come. These engines are
equipped with a 26-ineh vacuum pump
TO the condenser
The water used in this plant is from
the company's artesian well, which is
1850 feet deep and has a pressure of
forty-elght pounds.
The fuel used in the new plant will
be crude oil, supplied by the Vinita
Producing & Refining company, which
is now laying pipe line from the re-
finery to the tanks of the light com
pany. The latter company is installing
two large wooden tanks for storage
of oil These tanks are buried be-
meath the ground and the top is covered
with asbestos, TO prevent them catch
ing fire Each of these tanks will
store 250 barrels of oil.
Surmounting the engine room is the
giant stack This stack is six feet in
diameter and is 11S feet high. meas
uring from tie ground. The first sec
tion Of this is built Of three-eights inch
boiler steel The next division is of
one-fourth inch boiler steel, while the
last or upper portion is constructed of
the same steel three-sixteenths of an
inch thick
Al lof the electric light machinery
is of the Allis-Chalmers make and is
n the most improved type All of the
bearings are oiled by the gravity pro
cess. which keeps a flow of oil on the
bearings at all times.
The light department is equipped !
with eight switch boards, and panel
for ninth to be used when the cur
rent is turned into the state hospital
for the insane. Two of these switch
boards are for the residence section,
one for the north and one for the !,
south side. Two are for the street
lights, divided as above. Two others
are for the business section of the city.
while the other two are for generator
panels.
The new ice department probably
will not be ready to run before the
middle Of February. A contract has
been made for a new ice machine. with
he Triumph Ice Machine company, of !
Cincinnati This machine will be ship. ]
,ed December Is, and the manage |
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