The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-31
FAUCET COMPANY TO
HAVE BIG PAYROLL
Will Employ 100 Men at Be
ginning, Doubling Num-
Der in Year.
Is ECONOMICAL DEVICE
Tests Show II 10 Be Practical
ly Indestructible; Invention
of Salt Lake Man.
Is ECONOMICAL DEVICE

The Peerless Fuller Self Closing Eau
Get company, which has been iucOr'
porated under the laws Of Utah, is to
establish II manufactory in Salt Lake
City which will employ 100 men at the
outset aud will double that force with
in two years after its establishment.
Somo time ago the proposition TO
establish a factory for tho faucet was
presented to the Commercial club. a
committee was appointed to investigate
the matter. not only as to the practica-
bility of the faucet, but also with ref
erence to the possibility of financing
the proposition. This committee
has formulated report altogether
favorable to the proposal and
this paper will receive official atten-
tion at the hands Of Commercial club
officers ut an early time.
1t has been IL peculiar fault with fau-
Gets heretofore to become too much
worn for usefulness after d brief ser
vice. The committee which lnvestl-
gated the local invention. however,
found that the new device was prac.
tically indestructible. One Of the fau-
Gets WAS put into test under pressure
of eigbty-fivc pounds to the square
inch, and with the water at tempera~
ture of from 100 to 200 degrees, Fab
renheit. After 1,130,4S0 complete op-
eratlons in opening and closing the
stream under the pressure indicated the
faucet was found to be slightly worn on
the eccentric projection.
Practically Indestructible.
The washer was almost worn out, but
that was immediately replaced. The
test showed that the faucet, subjected
to the ordinary usage, would last ap-
proximately 125 years. In making the
test the faucet was attached to a run
nlng motor, which automatically turned
on the water and allowed the faucet to
close the opening Of its own accord.
The device is the invention of +. +
Lecuyer. a local master plumber, who
has been giving the subject of self.
closing faucets great deal of atten-
tion for several years.
Senator Warren Of Wyoming has de-
cided to recommend the device fol-
specification in the plumbing Of all
government buildings in this and for
elgn countries, and in the battleshlps
and cruisers Of the navy. Apparently
its excellence has commended it to pub
lie officials as an economic solution OF
the problem Of great expenditure Ill
replacing faucets, Already it has been
specified in the plumbing OF several
large structures built and now build.
ing in Utah and surrounding states, in.
cluding California,
Economical Manufacture.
The faucet is made of brass, and
into the composition of that metal cop
per enters as a principal factor. This
being great copper-pToducing state
the chief material for manufacture of
the device Is already at hand.
1t is believed that the establishment
of manufactory here would save an
immense total annual sum in the pro
ductlon OF output, and for that reason
the Commercial club has taken the mat
ster up with the purpose of assisting the
inventor to establish here the manufac.
turing center for his device.
Under the incorporation papers the
Peerless Fuller Self-Closing Faucet
company has capital stock of $40, 900.
divided into as many shares at a par
value of 81 each. In view of the
fact that more capital than this may be
required to establish plant here the
articles of corporation may be amend
ed so as to enable an increase of capi.
talization, However, that matter will
be left for future consideration, and
will depend greatly upon the action
of the Commercial club upon it's COM
mittee's favorable report