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1895 Article-Union Gas Engine Co., 50 H. P. Gas Engine |
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Industry Magazine, Nov 1895, pg. 666 |
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12/13/2012 9:12:28 PM |
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The plate opposite is made from a photograph taken from a third engine of 50 horse power, -made by the Union Gas Engine Co., for a mining company in Arizona. This company adopted gas engines tentatively, ordering one at a time, for pumping, hoisting, and to drive their mills, waiting in the two first cases to arrive by experiment at the results as to economy, efficiency and endurance, so it may be said there is no experiment in respect to all these points, which comprise all that need be considered. In arid, untimbered regions, remote from railway connection, which are the circumstances common to miners in the southern portions of this State, Arizona, and New Mexico, there is no doubt a great economy in the use of gas engines, not only as to fuel, convenience and running expenses, but in deterioration and maintenance, not that these circumstances limit the use of such engines, but sooner bring the system into use. As to a comparison with steam power we have not inquired, but the Union Gas Engine Company have no doubt such estimates and particulars in the present and other cases, that can be ascertained on inquiry. 'The engine shown, and the others that preceded it, we have examined during construction and when completed, and must admit that the general design, finish, material and workmanship reflects much credit on the company, and to this important branch of our local industries. When last at the works we came upon what the French call a “horse-less carriage," constructed to order for some one with a judicious and logical dread of animated apparatus for propulsion. We have full sympathy with the views of the owner, and think the gas engine will not only be more easily controlled, but infinitely safer as a means of locomotion. The engine, carriage, or whatever it is, seems practicable and well made, but as we cannot help recognizing, it is one of those disagreeable jobs that upsets the routine of a works," and as a “ manufacture " always gets on the wrong side of the ledger. Mr. Casey, of the Philadelphia works, who has recently been here, reports continued success in that -branch of the business, and the San Francisco works are fully occupied, mostly on marine and other engines of the larger class. |
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1895 Union Gas Engine Co., 50 H. P. Gas Engine
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