The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-02

cial loss results from smoke, none
would be so great without tho sulphur.
The obstruction of the sun g rays,
causing tho use Of more artificial light,
less efficiency Of employees, and so
forth, would be less because the sui"
is any other particle. Tho great loss
to library books, office records, and
the like, would be far less if the CRIME
did not contain the staining, dIscolor-
ing and devouring sulphuric acid.
Mr.. Wilson, quoting official figures,
shows the annual loss from smoke and
resultant influences III Cleveland, Ohio,
to be $l2 per capita, and in Cincinnati
and Pittsburg to. be $50 per capita.
The values for all large cities show an
average Of S17 loss for every man,
woman and child residing in cities. 1t
Will not be forgotten, however, that
this is calamity which very rarely
befalls the small city or the country
town,
Now it is manifestly too conserva-
tive to place Salt Lake City in the list
as an average Tor smokiness IN these
latter days, and probably a per capita
loss each year from smoke aud sui
phuric acid here would reach $25 or
even $50 considering all results, How
ever, to be as conservative as possible
in our reckoning, let us assume the
Salt Lake City loss to be no more than
the amount shown in the "avernge'
cities Of the United States, or SIT per
anDum per capita.
At the close Of January, 1913, an
estimate of our population made by the
Salt Lake Tribune from records of the
public service corporations and others
the total annual loss is practically S2,-
100000.
With this fact in mind, not forget
ting that we have placed it as low as
possible, let US return to the table OF
smoky, foggy days. twenty-five
gloomy days occurred In the first elev-
en- years and 221 in the second eleven
years. With an increase in the number
of foggv days proportiorato to the
population and coal consumption IN
crease of 20 per cent, we would, nor.
mally. have had forty.two instead Of
221 foggy days in the second eleven
excess of l79 foggy days, or sixteen
and onefourth per year, has plainly
been the result of the smelter and sui
phuric products.
Now it is we'll known that there is
no smoke damage on bright clear days;
that when smoke rises high and is
blown rapidly and does not accumulate
in quietude in any portion of tho city,
even when it is not consumed proper
ly. That there is no measurable loss
from smoke which is not forced ground
ward and held in masses by moisture
winds and other Influences, against
ourselves and our property. and with
such denseness as to diminish the sun
shine.
Therefore. we arrive at the signif-
cant and indisputable fact that our
loss of $2,000,000 annually is very
largely confined to the foggy, smoky
days, and so far as properly placing
the responsibility is concerned, we can
assume with perfect fairness that the
loss be divided into units presented by
the foggy days, exclusively, as oh.
served and recorded by the U. s.
weather bureau,
Smoke Costs Us s1.625 900 Yearly.
The twenty dirty days per year
(since 1902 entailing the loss Of So
100000, is 100000 for each and every
day on which a fog or a smoke were
recorded in the government records
And we have seen that the smelters
are solely responsible for sixteen and
one fourth of these days in each Of the
past eleven years, which gives loss
from the sulphurous spouting smelters