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Show ff ' m DIVER AT MOAB R If ATTRACTS WIDE INTEREST 111 Using a diver's suit and helmet I If ' to repair the piers of the new I li steel bridge over the Grand river Ml at Moab is a most unusual per- I ill formance, but found practical Isf v y men in cnaree tie repair mt ing of a weakened pier. The H' plan is to sink tubes around the I piers to bedrock and then fill th ti ill space between the piers and the wMvL tube with concrete. v Mr The diver will go to the bot- rM! tom of ror t0 c,ear away the sand from the floor of the tube and see that everything is ready for the concrete. Great interest has been manifested by the people of Moab in the work of the diver, and practically every person within ten miles has come to join the onlookers. Price Advocate. |