The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-05
Is Financed Wholly by LocaI
Capital. The Plant Furnishes
Light, Power, Water and Ice
TO the People Of Weston.
Ice Plant is Latest Additio on.

1t Is doubtful whether one could
find better equipped plant any
where in West Virginia than the
Weston Electric Light, Power and and
Water Company IN November, l ~
the company was organized with $1OO
600 capital stock. Until 1896 the plant
confined itself entirely to the menu
facture OF electric light. That year 9.
water works was installed and the:
capital stock was increased. In 1900:
a new turbine machine was added TO-
the plant at an approximate outlay
Of $50 About this time the COM
pany invested about $4,000 IN their
own gas wells. IN 1905 g storage
dam was constructed and another out,
lay OF several thousand dollars was
nncaasitated In 1868 new boilers
we're Installed and a new Office build
ing was constructed. From 1909
various other improvements were
made and In 1913 q filter plant was
added which cost $A7 0eO. AT the
present time the company is puttng1
In an ice plant, costing $4,000. As a
pleted and ice is being produced. The
building is constructed OF concrete
and was built by the Concrete Steel
Bridge Company, Of Clarksburg, w.
n Electric Plant.
The electric plant furnishes all the
electric current consumed by the
citizens Of Weston. There are between
six and seven thousand lights burn
comes from the plant Of the Weston
Electric Light, Power and Water
Company,s plant The gas used ct
the plant is piped from Murpay's
creek and into two 600 horse power
boilers. "A corless engine OF 200
horse power runs during the day ana
q $50 horse power engine runs dtlT-si
ing the night. These two engines
generate the electric y; Ssii. ,'''i-'
Tho Filter Plant.
me filter plant Of the local COM
pany is one OF the best in the ats.
The Roberts improve hiler sgELem
is the one used and by It about Gee
900 gallons OF Uttered wa y. y, pro
sduced each day or this aLtsllnt about
400, 900 gallons are wasted. Fr;, n Inc
time that q gallon Of wateTs pun ~ ~
from the West Fork river null az !, p
delivered IN the reservoir for puos:c
consumption, twelve hoars nave 's's''3
elapsed.
The process of liberation IS inten-
sely interesting and to the: layn an
appears. really wonderful. The water
a pumped from the West Fork riverl
into a great basin, called the substu-E
ance basin. This basin has q capa-
city OF 100000 gallons, Here the
water is treated with alum, AID: " ~
here that this first process OF AZ Ter
alton is applied. The alum causes
the dirt and sand IN ths ater TO set.
tie 10 the bottom Of the basin ana nys
reliable test 1t Is estimated that the
water loses from sixty to- seventy
ave per cent, of the mud here.
The water passes from this great
hasin through four feet az sand. THIS
is the real f1teratlon process and ~
is the passage through the sand that
purtfes the water The Utter is;
cleaned every day and every rracap-
ton to prevent fanl ty we Kin IS -,
resortads to. The water is then pumped
into the great 500 600 gal lion reservoir
on top OF the hill above the plant and.
mere the water Is held ia reserve; for
consumptipn. ~.
The ice, plant VIII chY Is the latest
auditor of,tAe COMPANY is 81 zknl m y:
its equipment to the ter plant Tsae E
capacity OF the ice plant tss twenty
tons per dass and the itty ssfs the
Ice is ofs the sEi1e plaE F Was
install by the TrduInph ~ sci n aSassne
company, 81 Cincinna o.
ice is an interesting one The steam
rom the pipes used hys the water
works is also used In Ia e inanuta Qtnrn
|of the ice. After HE ~ con-
densed 1t Is again reboiIad and taeTs-
by assures, doub1ys sps purity. Ehss
water then goes into 81 ch eoal inter-
and thence into the gre ST nfAHe sta[
This is the entire process before the