Show CITY PIPE n LINE I 1 S pressure test shows line to be okey and water tight work on the installation ot of brigham cites new cast iron pipe line from a point at the head ot of box elder canyon to the hailing spring in mantua is progressing rapidly according to D R wheelwright ot of the construction company and should be completed next week the contract was awarded the wheelwright company by the city and the work ot of construction has been done under the supervision of john wheelwright a member of the firm all of the trench digging has been completed and machinery used in this work taken off of the job the pipe has all been laid with the exception 0 of about feet and this part of the job will be completed by the middle of 0 next week one section of the pipe line has been tested out under the supervision of city manager ruel M eskelsen and the trench backfilled back filled tilled and another section is being tested today in testing the pipe line the ends of a certain section of the line are plugged up and a water pressure guage placed in one of the lengths of pipe water is then pumped into the pipe until the gauge registers a pressure of about 50 pounds it Is then left standing for a certain length of time and it there is IB a leak in the pipe the gauge will register a lower pressure it if not the pipe line Is water tight under a test of this kind it is very easy to tell it if there is any detect defect in the laying of the line after the completion of the pipe line all that Is left Is the construction of an addition to the weir house at the spring and a retaining wall at the dam the construction ot of which will require about two weeks mr wheelwright says that within a short time brigham city will have one of the finest and best pipe lines to be found anywhere |