Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 10 | Vitrified Pipe for County Roads

VITRIFIED PIPE FOR COUNTY ROADS TWO carloads of vllrlflnd j-jSpo have been received by tho County Commissioners Com-missioners to bo used for culverts along tho county roada, TThe Com-mlsslonors Com-mlsslonors havo decided that wooden Humes do not pay, and all work dono lu repairing ditchos and culverts will be made moro ubistantlal In tho finun?. In othor wonl, tlioy Intond to nak Improvements Improve-ments that will be pormanonc. Xroodon flumos at bqBt Inst but a few yiNirs, and during tho time thai they aw now do not give entire satisfaction. The cast of putting- In the vltrlrtod plpo ie only J6 per cent jrroater thiui tliw wooden llunns, and when once In will last an Indefinite, In-definite, time The county ndvortlsed for bldn on vltrlfii:d pipo and havo plactd a contract for a largo amount of this piping with iho ObxIoii Sowur Pipo and Cluy company, which ettneern submitted tho be.it proposition. The llrsi two cars of the piping to be received wero unlonded a fow dnys ago at Fourtonth South wreeL This pipe can Im uso1 under any crossing cross-ing whore It can bo Inld one foot under ground. When Inld at a shallower dupth It Is liable to bo broken. But by building up tho ronls as they should bo built a depth of ono foot for culvetH can nearly always be secured. With culvcrt of vlt-rlfled vlt-rlfled plpo thero Is less dnnirur of the streets being Hooded during severe storms, such n that of Monday and Tuesday, Tues-day, A twelve-Inch pipe culvwrt, with a drop of four Inches across an ordinary street will carry 1-1 !t3 gallons of water per minute, nnd where the drop is practically Impcrcoptiblo tho capacity Is about half afl jfrcit. Vitrlllod pipo culverts will ho laid along tho county road in various parts of tho county os soon as the pipe can b-o socuruil and tho condition of thi weather will permit.