Show I MASSIVE MA FOUNDATIONS FO LINDA FOR JEFFERSON SCHOOL OL ij ir j jj j t tE tx E x i t 1 cI t e I c I J L i C J S I i C Cr CJ Ct r J t 4 t tL Pui B h By i 1 I tall tab Photo Materials Co n This picture shows the peculiar character of the foundations which are being built for the Jefferson school in Tenth South The JeI n school building which is III to be erected between Main aln and West Vest Temple r mple streets in Tenth South street at a cost of or will be the first school house in iii Utah to be constructed of reinforced concrete There Th re is 18 only I one school building of or a similar eon con construction in California and that is 15 lo 10 located ested at Oakland When it came cam to testing te the ground where the Jefferson building is being built it was W found that the land was altogether alt too soft Oft for the laying of a astone atone astone stone tone foundation Six hours after a R heavy rain water would stand over the surface of the th ground By B digging down eighteen inches water can be located l te at atan any an point on this property The only i practical foundation foun for the structure therefore was as reinforced concrete and I it was decided to build the school house h ue upon a base ba e of or this construction len the building Is III completed the main part of it wilt will stand on a R rein reinforced reinforced reinforced forced concrete slab which will be com coni composed comor posed of or pound steel rails placed two I 0 feet apart concrete and slender bars of steel reinforced Three hundred I and of 0 the I I steel rails were purchased from the street railway ralla company for use Uit in the tile I construction of this build I 4 The work of laying this reinforced Concrete I Ib base b se is mo most t difficult and has to be done by b skilled workmen Every steel rail tall railor railor tallOt or Ot bar bai has to be put into position with the greatest ears care lest a tiny tin flaw In Inthe Inthe inthe the construction cause a piece of oC the foundation to fall away wa The Th workmen setting the steel reinforcements and pouring in the concrete around the bars barsto barsto barsto to make maki them tI m solid lOUd are art watched closely i because of the importance of every en lit Ut little UttI littie tie tle tI detail connected with Ith the first steps in the th construction con of this sort of oC a building The ground was only excavated excavated excavated to the depth of oC twelve incites inches for forthe forthe forthe the laying laving of or the foundation under miller the main part of the structure The engine en tn room and annexes ann will lit practically be built bunt upon the ground as no excava excavation excavation tion was made for their foundation The steel reinforcement rods rod which are used In the building of o the walls nails and whit Ii can be sen Men in the accompanying a lime illus illustration are re im In solid concrete to toa toa a It depth of or front thirty to inches The Th main part of or the school schoolhouse 8 schoolhouse hool house will wUl stand on a R reinforced ron crete base eighteen inches deep lee The Th walls lis of the building which will nII be nf nr 1 I the same lame will lit be le u inches thick and the t partitions i ithe the different rooms will be eight im e thick I The Th Jefferson school will vill eighteen class ela rooms time nille on op each ench floor I The lavatories and manual training rooms will be located I ted Iii in an all annex anne con connecting with the main building by b a ahall t hall hail thirteen feet Ceet four foor inches in Mth hith The heating plant will III be of the most modem pattern and the sanitary yen ven ventilating En system will be he a feature fe ure of or the building A J McDonald has bas the general con contract on i tract for the erection of or the school schoolhouse schoolhouse house hOUle The plumbing will be done don by bj bythe the Will ilI Rees Kees Plumbing company compan and the wiring will be In the hands of oC the Electrical Engineering Construction company com pan C r O 0 Bonnerud of o Ogden who ho has had bad considerable experience la lit reinforced d concrete work ork is superintending tending the construction The Th time Um urn Inn i It for fur the completion of the building is isI j I the of the school season I the I first of September I |