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Show USE OF CONCRETE PIPING. Material le Now Being Used for Dulldlngs of All Kinds, Large and Small. While Iron and utool men Insist that thla Irt an ago of atool, nnd eloc trlcnl cnglnoorM bold it la tho electrical elec-trical ago, concroto builders nmlntnln thnt It Is nlso tho concroto nge, nnd ovoryono will ngreo that whllo concroto con-croto has boon utilized for conturioH past, It has never boon no univorsnlly omployed ns at prcsont. Hulldings of nil kinds, largo and small, vossclu, ntllroad tios, pavomonts, mino ehnfts, walls, brcakwntors, jilors, piles, wp lor aud sowor pipe, tanks nnd wells, kd woll nr many othor kinds of con struotlon aro now bolng made of con croto. At Wnukegnn, 111., a lino of 5,000 foot of Biich plpo Is bolug laid. Tho dlnmotor qt tho plpo In 48 Inches, Moro tltnn 1,000 foot of plpo CC Inchoa lu diameter tins been laid at Atlantic City, and in still another city a lino of plpo 72 Inches In diameter has boon completed for u dlsianco of -1,000 foot Hydro clactrlc powor plants liro also using reinforced concroto plpo. |