. Railway age . er screens and intoa steel drum from which it is blown to the dry sand bin by com-pressed air. car system it is delivered to the coal bin, 135 ft. from the receivingtrack. Two kinds of coal are handled here and to prevent theirgetting mixed, the receiving hopper is divided into two parts. OneHolmen bucket bandies the coal from each hopper and the tramcars deliver the coal independently to their respective bins. AHolmen-Barrett cinder plant here is a duplicate of the Clovis plant. With the exception of the Clovis plant all the plants are equippedwith the weighing hoppers mention
. Railway age . er screens and intoa steel drum from which it is blown to the dry sand bin by com-pressed air. car system it is delivered to the coal bin, 135 ft. from the receivingtrack. Two kinds of coal are handled here and to prevent theirgetting mixed, the receiving hopper is divided into two parts. OneHolmen bucket bandies the coal from each hopper and the tramcars deliver the coal independently to their respective bins. AHolmen-Barrett cinder plant here is a duplicate of the Clovis plant. With the exception of the Clovis plant all the plants are equippedwith the weighing hoppers mentioned with the Clovis plant, andall but this plant are driven by Ohio gasolene engines. The plants were all designed and built by Roberts & SchaeferCo., Chicago. A molder employed in the Baden State Railroad shops at Karls-ruhe was elected on the Social Democratic ticket a member of thecity common council. The railroad authorities informed him thatif he accepted this office he would be discharged from the State. Coaling and Cinder Plant at Clovis, N. Mex., on Belen Cut-Off of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. A coaling plant at Willard, 55 miles west of Vaughn, is a dupli-cate of the ones at Taiban and Yesso. Another at Becker. 39miles west of Willard, is also a duplicate of these in general design,but of 350 tons capacity. The plant at Helen, the western terminus (page 34()) is like theone at Clovis, except in the method of elevating coal. This is donein Holmen buckets, and by means of the Harrett automatic tram
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