Show Engineering Students to Examine Saltair Piling V Examination of the pilings upon which Saltair resort is constructed by members of the University of Utah engineering school wilt will take takeI I place in the next few days in the hope of working out a plan of perI permanently permanently per per- m preserving the wooden I foundation An Ati invitation was exI extended ex ex- ex- ex tended the embryo engineers by Joel JoelI I Richards of of V the Saltair company when It was discovered that the edges of some of the tho piling were I chipping The wooden pillars on which the resort Is constructed have havet been in use for thirty years and are arenow I t now Just lust as good as when driven according to Richards only where they have been exposed to the water and then left lett dry by its receding In Ina Ina a n. few places The salt satt water is recognized recognized recognized rec rec- by construction engineers all over the as one ono of the best preservatives es of of wo wood d it is said V In a few places however the Water water water wa wa- ter is believed to have entered the wood with the grain from the end of the piling The effect has been and chipping of the thep p piles les at the h edg edges In the hope of remedying this condition the university university university uni uni- engineers have been invited d Jo 10 examine the die r resortS resort foundation foundation is declared by Mr Rl Richards hards to be in no wise unsafe Where Wh re the tho piles have been b en under water since they we drIver driven thirty years years ago they are In almost perfect and even even where they have chipped the e wasting process process pro pro- cess has destroyed only a small pa part of ot the stock leaving ample pillar there to act as es support Richards said In lin linG lino with th tho contentions of en engineers engineers en- en V that v w LUs of Great Salt lake are excell excellent lIt it a as wood preservatives preservatives preservatives tives certain companies at atone atone atone one time considered placing a t tie e treating plant on the shores of the lake using the salt water as the only fluid instead g of Qt crude oil and creo creo creo- sote Bote The plans were later abandoned abandoned aban aban- however because of the distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance timber Umber would have to be hauled V V |