White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-28
TO ABATE
SMOKE NUISANCE
ELECTRICITY WILL SUPPLANT
STEAM AT CARNEGIGE MILLS
NEAR PITTSBURG WHICH WILL
SOLVE SMOKE PROBLEM.

All these great water powers Delng
developed through the country are
a splendid thing for the people. Mr..
Pinchot and others have been talking
much about the conservation of coal,
and getting rid of a lot of sayings
that are not quite practical. They
have been wanting to retain the
water falls for their scenic beauty
and to inspire poetry on the part of
the creators and writer's of such
work, but there's something beauti-
full to be gained by Kidding the cities
of coal smoke, this being one of the
dangers to humanity in many manu-
featuring districts. In this great
fight for the obliteration of tubereu-
losis. for a more healthy, clean coun-
try, the elimination of coal smoke,
with its accompanying dust. would go
a long way the lungs of the people
of such districts being threatened
with it always. their clothing subject
ed to this everlasting dirt. and the
bright sky being obscured due to this
industrial vomiting forth of endless
clouds of coal smoke. Every time an
electric motor goes into commission
it does away with smoke. Wouldn't
it better to harness the water powers,
giving the public freedom from
smoke, and also conserve the coal
mines of the country at the same
time?
This is practical conservation, says
Iron Ore.
The following from the Gazette
Times, of Pittsburg. in its issue of
the Sd of January, has the following
which will be pleasing news to the
miners of copper as it is to the resi-
dents of the city of Pittsburg:
Electricity will ~supplant steam
power in the Carnegie company's
mills in the near future in an expert
ment aiming at further abatement of
the smoke evil.
I'm that famous little mill center
of the West End, which for a half
century has been ~befogged by smoke
from its rolling mill stacks. the COM
pany has located an experimental
field. Rolling mills and other ma
chinery at Painters mills will be
electrically driven; when the success
of the plan is absolutely assured the
idea Will embrace all the other Car
negie mills.
Mechanical engineers and experts
declare that the scheme will con-
tribute more towards abatement of
the smoke nuisance than anything at
tempted or suggested in years. The
busy little industrial center between
Point bridge and West Main street
will be the first to benefit. Carnegie
officials feel that they could not have
located a better field for experiment
al operations. Penn avenue mills,
notably the upper and lower Union
plants will come next.
I'm due time the motor will sup
plant steam power in the great mills
at Homestead, Braddock and
Duquesne. Within a few weeks the
machinery at the Painter plant will
be electrically driven. and steam
power in many departments will be
a thing of the past.
The Carnegie company has con-
tracted for a 600-power motor which
will be installed Immediately at the
Painter plant. Engineers are at
work designing others.
"Offcials of the Carnegie company
recently admitted that the prelimi-
nary experiments had warranted free
use of high-power motors to denim
strate the added benefits from the
operating standpoint, as we'll as re-
ducing. or probably entirely elm
mating the quantity of smoke that
rises from the stacks of steam driven
rolling mills.
1T was pointed out hat the Mesta
plants at West Homestead long ago
solved the smoke problem by the use
of gas engines and motors"
The above is only n of a thou
sand instances that might be cited to
show how copper is being used in
electrifying many plants throughout
this and other countries.