Show MODERN WATERWORKS SYSTEMS More than fitLy fifty towns in Utah have e Installed waterworks systems stem during the past eight oars and alid some twenty others are preparing plans for next year ear Besides the tho sanitary benefits which the they bring to communities the thc they which Is S ap constitute a real luxury appealing ap pealing to the thc th people everywhere are unanimous Hydraulic engineers in the time opinion engIneers that cast iron pipe for waterworks systems comes first and where Its cost Is prohibitive they the unreserved unreserved unreservedly un un- un- un reserved reservedly I y recommend a I irs t cl class ass I wood sta e stave pipe There Is no middleground middle Water Vater Engineering ground round Fire and J In Its issue Isue of August 2 2 1911 Hil prints from a paper the time following excerpt Paper read before the convention of the time American Waterworks association at Amerian Rochester b by C. C Chalkley Chalkier Hatton Haton C. C E E. Wood pipe for tor con conveying water to and nd through municipalities has been een used since the memory of man run run- neth not the The Romans used it I for tor generations Many an miles mies of It were laid In the time streets of London centuries tics ries ago alO and last year car some of ot these old pipes were removed and were vere found in a a good so sound nd state of oC The earl early waterworks In time the vaton with wood United States were ere built wih pi pipe po distribution main bult New ew York ork and arid Philadelphia being well known examples exam exam- wel ples riles During the building of oC the tho NewYork New New- NewYork York subways some of ot these old OKI and ana wooden mains w were re encountered removed They were found perfectly sound The pipes above referred to were made b by boring pine loss logs an and banding each end with a n round wrought ht Iron band making the time U two o ends In tho the form of a tenon and chamber cham cham- chamber the other ber her and driving one into This method of oC manufacture required the removal of or time the best part of the time al wood and have last lasted d yet et the pipes pipe for centuries The writer wrier removed cd several sever hundred feet teet of oC these pipes from th the streets of Wilmington some ten years ears a ago o which had been in the time ground round since 1812 and not only was the wood the time day ilay it was as sound as la burled buried but the wrought Iron bands were pert perfect ct These facts arc are simply mentioned the time oft rePta re- re answer In-answer to or Pta Pealed led question What hat Is the time dura- dura that hll of ot wood rood pipe Assuming wood stave pipe I Is laid where It wil wilbe will ill willbe be constantly subjected to wa water pressure pressure pres pres- sure ure the life Ue of ot such Is If entirely de- de TIn ent upon unon the time life of ot th time material with wih which It Is it banded He the life Is la somewhat problematical there where are illustrations well known knon steel banded teel-b teel nd ll pipe ln has been In contin- contin unus cat without without with with- operation for fifty yea out apparent deterioration Time following are Tle systems cre iron Ion with wood stae pipe cast ast nine olpe furnished b by uy D. D C. C v. v Take LAke CI Cius a arent f nt for Cur the ther Washington PIpe American iL un com companY pan r Cast Qt Iron Pine company Central f. f Tube e Manufacturing Manu Manu- co company pany Valve and tie the Ludlow fac compan Garneld Murray Tm Tooele ode Farmington Farming Farming- Iura Ver- Ver ton Pleasant Grov Gro f le er- er nat 5 Am American GWon Gunnison Bountiful Bountiful Pork I or H Fillmore Hyde T P lark rk H nefer re St. St t. t George Richmond Alpine Alpine Monroe 41 Grouse rouse rous Creek Fall Fairview Lon Loa to Moab I b 1 Mount Plea Pleasant new nl extensions ena n. n State ta tc Industrial School MOol Salt JO Lake Cit ex extensions ex- ex tensions l Big cot C onwood and BIJ ton City and an these nine lines lines- Western estern Pacific lf c railway taUwa Jnes' Jnes Pacific railway nl n f Sail e S Sail air Beach ah topper oPP company Consol Consolidated y l I I I I Fuel company compan Strongs Stron s canyon canon Utah Fuel company Salt Sni Lake county count pipeline pipe pipeline line lne Washington ton Mill rm company l Forest ForestDale ForestDale orest Dale an and Fairmount Springs Most of these used wood pipe a few used cast Iron pipe |