Show HAMMOND 1213 CANAL word was received here tuesday that the elbow on the north side of the gulch in which the hammond canal dyphon is built broke out the night before washing out the immense amount of piling that had been placed under it and creating havoc in general lt it is doubtful that the breach will now be repaired to do any good this I 1 ear it was an unfortunate thing oc curing as it did the hammond ammond II canal company has seen at least washed out and this tog together gether with the loss to farmers through the drying doing up of their crops will easily reach more it is a hard matter to place the blame for this calamity of OE course we might say that the company did not exercise due diligence that during last winter while the water was out of the canal and plenty of help could be had they should have gone over that piece of work thoroughly so that it might have been in ship shape and nobody caused to suffer during the time that the water would lie be so greatly needed on the other hand it may be that any amount of work that a person could foresee to le be necessary would have tailed failed to forestall the break however this may be there is no doubt in the minds of ony one eien those who lave have lost most heavily that the company has left a stone unturned looking toward speedy repairs we cannot say whether a su suggestion from us would be kindly received or not but we have passed by that way a good many times and believe that we understand the conditions there fairly well we would suggest to the company that the present construction of the dyphon is impracticable that they will never be able to construct a pipe of sufficient strength to withstand the tremendous force that will necessarily be exerted instead of continuing to aey ter plan would be to make long cuts through either bank of the hollow extending back say a distance equal to the width of 0 the hollow at the top the long pipe thus constructed could be securely bedded in cement all the way along right up to the point where it spans the comparatively short distance across the bottom of the hollow thus there would be a gradual decent from the north side and a gradual ascent to the leel ee on the south side with a pipe line constructed in this il manner lanner the amount of trestle work under that part suspended in the air would lie be trifling because the weight to be sustained would not be greatly in excess of the actual weight of the water there would be practically no pressure compared with what there is now another plan would be to build a wooden pipe line on the same level as the flume was originally built allowing the ends to extend away beyond where there would be any danger of seepage into the hollow and have this structure supported by trestles just as the flume was now 0 o these suggestions are not based upon any system of scientific engineering gi but they are simple enough to appeal to the common sense of anybody with an atom of mathematical ema acumen we sincerely hope that during the coming winter some device will be put in there so strong and enduring that nothing short of an act of god can destroy it |