The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-07
oil ENGINES
FOR POWER WILL
EFFECT SAVING
Cost of City to Pump Water
Under Plan Placed at
$4,000 Yearly
UTILITY CHARGE $4,000
Agitation Under Way to Use
Excess Power For Street
Lights and Public Buildings
UTILITY CHARGE $4,000

For the past thirty days or so d
good many of our readers have had
under consideration the proposed
power plant in connection with the
new water system proposed for on,
city. The city council has recently
revised the specifications in THEN
call for bids in such way that
equipment will be offered when the
bids are opened on the 2Sth day of
May to provide Il complete and par
TALLY Independent source of power
for the plant On May 14th the
voters of our city will be asked to
decide whether o, not bond will
be issued for the payment of this
equipment and we feel that the citi-
zen taxpayers of our city should be
rightfully informed as to what the
city commission Will have before
them for consideration and what the
city will be able to accomplish with
the new power plant when once in
stalled.
Fairbanks Morse & Co., through
their local representative, have met
with our city commission on several
occasions and working with the en-.
ginccrs in charge have outlined
equipment in the way of Semi Deiscl
type oil burning e..gines as a source
of power for the plant and have sub
mitted set of specifications which
the commission has now included in
their call for bids. On May 28th the
commission must decide whether OF
not power plant will be installed
in addition to the filtering plant
or a complete electrical driven out.
fit be installed and use our own
local power plant % secure electric
energy.
Company Statements
The above company made several
statements in support of their equip
ment when speaking to the commits.
sion outlining where and in wha,
way the city can INSTALL oil engines
and generate their own current and
effect an enormOu. saving over the
purchase of the same amount Of cur.
rent from our local electric plant
The equipment called for in tho
former specifications for the pump
ing station was to consist Of five
pumping units, three on the high
lift from the plant to the reser'
voir and two on the low lift from the
river to the plant. Each of the Sc
pumping units was to be directly con
nected to motors as we'll as auxil.
iary gasoline engines. However
only two of these pumping unit.
would be in daily use one on the low
lift and one on the high lift. The
balance of the equipment was to be
installed as additional equipment tt
maintain high pressure for fire
protection.
Daily Consumption
The average daily consumption o1
water in Bismarck for the past veal
has been something less than 600,
600 gallons and it will require about
a seven hour run with this equip
ment daily to lift this water. This
will mean that, one 30 HIP and on'
125 HIP motor will have to operate
about seven hours each day. Will
our present power rates which are OF
sliding scale flom &c down to 81
this will cost approximately $27.7!
per seven hours 81. current. In ad
dition to this we must pay a mini
mum charge of one dollar per horse
power per month ror reserve unit
which amount to 415 HIP. This viii
bring our yearly pumping power bill
to i tfffle more than $15,000.00. T.
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