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THE DENVER POST MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949 Public Service Consfrucfion Sfarfs Denver Post Plioto. Steel construction in the generator unit of a 17-million-dollar steam power plant, to be built by the Public Service Company of Colorado along the Platte river in south Denver, got under way Monday. Company officials were on hand to see the first steel column swung into place. Shown above are (left to right): F. T. Parks, a company vice president; G. B. Buck, vice president; W. D. Virtue, vice president; L. P. Patterson, planning engineer with the company; J. E. Loiseau, presi dent; H. H. Grayson, a construction worker, and Harry Thompson (in front of column), a con struction worker. Public Service Hoists First Girder Of $17-Million Steam Electric Plant By JOHN W. BUCHANAN. First units of the plant, set for Each boiler will be as high as a Denver Post Staff Writer. completion in April, 1950, will have ten-story building. Temperatures An orange-colored steel column an initial capacity of 40,000 kilo ranging as high as 3,200 degrees slipped slowly into place and was watts. Units completed in 1951 will will evaporate a million and one- bolted down on its concrete base boost that to 80,000, and plans call fourth gallons of water a day into Monday morning as above-ground eventually for a plant that will steam at a pressure of 900 pounds structural work on the Public Serv produce from 200,000 to 240,000 a square inch. Boilers will be fired ice company's IT - million - dollar kilowatts of power. Cost of the ini with nearly a ton of coal each Arapahoe steam electric plant at tial 80,000 kilowatt capacity is 17 minute. 2601 South River drive got under million dollars. Giant pumps will recirculate the way. The ten-ton girder stood upright on a site that, less than 100 years ago, saw the tepee poles of Indian tribes which used to camp on that spot along the Platte river. Present at the ceremony were J. E. Loiseau, president of the com pany, and other company officials. This initial capacity will produce 600 million kilowatt-hours of firm electric energy annually--as much as anticipated by the entire Colo rado-Big Thompson multiple-purpose project. Each electric generator will be driven by 60,000 horsepower steam turbines, each as powerful as 600 steam through condensers at the rate of 86 million gallons of water a day--nearly as much as the aver age daily use of water in the entire city of Denver. The Arapahoe plant construction is regarded by company officials as the major single job in the 75million-dollar expansion program. Plans for construction of the plant 1950 GOAL SET. modern automobiles. The tips of : got under way four years ago, and The girder will become a part of the longer blades in the turbines ground breaking took place this the generating unit of the plant. will travel at the speed of sound-- spring. Work is also under way on the as fast as modem jet fighter Contract for the construction was smokestack, the boiler rooms and planes. let to Ebasco Services of New York turbine building. city, a firm which specializes in power plant construction. WAD02284