Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-08-04 | Page 6 | Shutting out Water

OUT WATER asphaltum used in basement of com sary the force of men working on the commissary building has been doubled in the past three day and the con crete foundation is being rapidly placed within twenty four hours one layer will have been set around the entire building carpenters will immediately follow with a layer upon layer will be until the necessary height ia reached athya brick work will commence in the original plan of the bulling it was decided to have an ordinary concrete basement with a finish As concrete is porous and as the inflow of water in the basement is large and steady some method ot stopping the water from filtering through the walla was found necessary attar considering several plans the engineers in charge decided to place a covering of asphaltum over the basement concrete ork this they thank will effectually stop the water from cooing through causing the walls 0 o sweat