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Show RELIC OF OTHER DAYS. Old Wooden Water Pipe Found in Perfect Repair by Workmen Excavating Ex-cavating on State Street. A striking Illustration of the durabll Ity of underground wooden pipe Is ap pircnt to the casual observer along Second South itreet At Stute street an excavation has been made b) workmen work-men revealing two lengths of old un used pine that once formed a pirt of the water system of the clt) before the da) of Iron pipe Hurled nbout three feet under surface the pile is In let feet repali and the wood shows no sign oi lotting It Is the belief of 'Water Su perlntendent Hlnes thul the pipe, wns put In place nbout 1873 which would make It twent) seven )ears old At South Temile street workmen havo taken out several lengths of this oil pipe nnd have muveled nt Ihe won derful resistance of the mnterlnl to the deattucllve influence of lime and moist ure It la lute the metal straps which otiio bound the wood have corroled and fallen away lu places hut the wood Itself Is as llrrn and solid as the dty it wns placed In the ground If comparisons were not proverbiall) reputed to be odious attention might be oiled nlso to another excavation at Muln nnd Second south streets where a section of Iron Riaplpe revelled h) the dlRkris Is hull) corroded although It hus been In the ground less than ten )ears esterda) u workman ac Irlent ally struck his pick agilnst th Iron pipe and ihe pick went right thiough tnnklnc u hole which had to be lugied up with wood ' kh The leinilulon Is Rtaduall) s reading thit wool isfui mote duriihle thin Iron for water pipes TJie wooden pipes nn mad. of atavea wound tightl) with stiel win nnd ihe Joints ura also of wool doing away with Urge expense foi lead used In soldering Itnn nine The i OKI Ik sil I to be le th 11 ihlt of n i I fire ml i intra t ir now be lng filled lo'nl!) foi four miles or 'hn 1 Ipe foi mining coiripinles nnd other |