The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-11-29

be sent to any address upon application.
The right to make this pipe is enjoyed by
two companies only in the United States.
In it's issue of October 9th, the San Fran
cisco Journal Of Commerce, in very lengthy
article, upon the subject of Water Pipes, has
the following: In March last an organZa-
ton styled the American Pipe Company, with
a capital of $25O,0OO, was established in this
city for the purpose OF manufacturing this
pipe and thoroughly introducing it to the
people OF this coast and the territories. The
officers OF this company are Robert q. Byx-
bee, of the firm Of II. b. Tichenor IL Co.,
President; John h. Chalfant formerly of the
Mendocino Lumber Co., Vice President;
John f. Byxbee, OF the Duncan Mills Lum-
Der Co., Secretary and Treasurer; Calvert
Meade, Auditor; Col. Cook Talcott of thirty
years experience as civil and hydraulic en-
gineer, Chief Engineer; Z. I. Dickinson, who
has been for the last twenty years connected
with the manufacture OF this pipe, General
Manager. On the organization of the COM
pany mill was started at Olympia, Puget
Sound, w. T., where the lumber is prepared,
when it is brought to this city and taken to
the factory of the company, on Channel street
near Fourth where it is finished ready for
use. Some fifty or sixty men are employed
at both places. The manner of making this
pipe is peculiar. 1t is made in sections Of
eight feet long. 1t is first bored, and then
turned in lathe to a uniform thickness OF
shell, removing all of the sap, and steamed
thoroughly to avoid any possibility of check
ing, or tasting the water. One end Of each
piece has II tenon of about 80 inches, and
the other is mortised to fit it closely The
swelling of this tenon, when driven home
makes a perfectly tight joint. The pipe is
now ready for banding. This is done by
winding the iron spirally around it, of II thick
ness and at intervals required by the pres
sure to be sustained by the pipe, and then
the entire pipe and iron are thckly coated
with asphatum, producing a condition best
calculated to resist decay in any form. The
water pipe is coated on the outside only, as
it is well known scientific fact that water
either salt, alkali, or sulphur, does not affect
wood, and in this city this pipe is used at the
Mint to carry off waste acids.
The gas pipe manufactured by this company
is made the same as the water pipe, except that
it is coated inside and is not bound as heavily
with iron and one great feature OF the gas
pipe is, that it prevents condensation.
From the San Francisco Daily Examiner of
October 10Th we quote as follows regarding
test of this combination pipe:
On Friday we were invited to witness a
test OF this water pipe, at the establishment
of A. j. Smith, Esq, on Fremont street, where
three of Mr.. Smiths powerful Atwood X
Bodwell' pumps had been arranged for the
test There were present several gentlemen
interested in the water supply, among them
being Mr.. Schussler, Chief Engineer of the
Spring Valley Water Company. Three
lengths of the ordinary eight inch (inside di-
ameter) pipe were placed in position The
| first pipe was designed to stand fifty foot
pressure. The pumps were set at work, and
soon pressure of 100 pounds, equal to fall
of nearly 400 feet and yet the pipe was ap-
parently as firm as ever. \ pressure was then
put on equal to a head of $50 feet, when a
small seam opened in the wood, and a small
| spray Of water escaped. The pressure was
| rplnpaf hy "a NJ tha tor ap1 ha
seam at once closed and the pipe at $50 feet
started, and pressure of $50 feet registered,
when the packing under the temporary
washer on the first mentioned pipe
blew out The pipe, however, did not show
the least weakness, even the joints being
! perfectly dry and the wood showing that not
drop OF water had escaped.
The pipe was then disconnected from this
one and the interest concentrated in the
other test, whereby it was expected that the
| iron section would give away. The wood
pipe had been prepared to resist pressure
OF 200 feet The pumps were started and the
| indicator on the gauge registered ,250 feet
when the bar OF iron running through the
pipe separated with the tremendous
force of the water, and further testing was
useless An idea of the force may be had
! from the fact that the bar was an inch and a
quarter in thickness, and it drew apart like a
thread.
| The tests yesterday were satisfactory in
every particular to the company present,
and the next one will be watched with in
terest.
The following are among the most promi-
nent places and companies on the Pacific
Coast using this pipe for the last three TO
eleven years: Alameda Water Co, Cal.
Santa Cruz Water Co., Cal. Claus Spreckes
Esq, Aptos, Cal; Portland Water Co., Ore
gon; Seattle Gas X Water Co, w. T.; Olym-
pia Water Works, w. T.; Port Gamble, w
T.; Southern and Central Pacific Railroad
Companies, a large amount; United States
Mint; Camp Mcdowell, Arizona.
very tine endorsement OF this pipe is
made by f. N. Morgan, Chief Engineer aud
Superintendent OF the Santa Cruz Water
pressure was perfectly tight The second
pipe was made for head of 100 feet. This
stood pressure OF 210 pounds To the square
inch equal to a fall OF nearly 600 feet. The
third pipe, made for 3 200 feet head, stood a
pressure OF 400 pounds 10 the square inch,
equal TO head of go feet. The test was evil
IDENTIFY satisfactory TO the scientific gentle
men present and Mr.. Schussler expressed
himself highly pleased with the test. He
said no pipe in actual service would be called
upon to stand such test, for in cities IL was
impossible to close all the hydrants at the
same time, and even II IL were possible To do
so, the peculiar elasticity of this pipe rem
dered it superior TO any pipe he knew of.
From his own observation and what he had
learned, he expressed himself highly pleased
with the pipe.
This pipe has been used in the East for the
last eighteen years, and nearly one thousand
miles OF il has been thoroughly tested. II
has been brought into immediate competi-
ton with the best iron pipe, and not in a
single instance has it failed 10 prove itself
the best, and when taken up TO lay larger
pipe it has been found perfectly sound and
every foot relaid.
and Co. 81.