The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-04-06
Water Pipe.

In these days, in these islands, when so much at
tention Is being paid to irrigation for agricultural
purposes, we think We shall be doing present and
prospective planters Il service by directing atten-
ton to the fact, which is believed to be fully DEM
Onstrated. that pipe made OF a combination of
wood, iron and asphaltum, is not only cheaper. but
far better and more durable than iron. During
the past week, we paid a visit to the estate of Mr..
q. I. Ward, at KulaOkahua, where some 500 feet
Of THE three inch :" WyckofPip " has recently been
laid and is now in use. This piping. which has
been used in the States for some twenty years, and
latterly to a large extent in California, is very
highly spoken of by those who have used il, as
strong, cheap and durable. It is made in sections
of eight feet long, from Puget pine or Oregon fir.
1t is first bored and then turned in a lathe to . uni
form thickness of shell, removing all of the sap,
and steamed thoroughly. One end of each piece
has a tenon of about 81 inches, and the other is
mOrtised to fit it closely. The swelling of this
tenOn when driven home, makes a perfectly tight
joint. Banding " the pipe is done by winding
iron spirally around it, of a thickness, and at in
terVals required by the pressure to be sustained.
Then the entire pipe and iron are thickly coated
with asphaltum, producing a condition best calcu-
lated to resist decay of any form. The water pipe
is coated on the outside only, as it is a well-known
scientific fact that water will not corrode wood,
though it will find the smallest crack in the inside
coating of iron pipe and eat its way out in u few
months. Tests of the Wyckoff piping made in
San Francisco, showed that it would stand a pres
sure OF 200 lbs to the square inch. In regard to
durability, we are told that when taken up to lay
a larger pipe, after the lapse of Is years, it was
found perfectly sound. One great advantage about
the use of this piping is that no skilled labor is
required in laying it.
The water which we saw pouring forth from the
Wyckoff piping on Mr.. Wards premises (which
would be a source of almost unlimited wealth to
some plantations we wot Oils raised from u well
and sent up hill through the pipe by a pump work
ed by a small two-hOrse power Ryder engine of
the hot air principle. This is a very efficient but
economical affair, requiring no skilled labor to run
it. and costing for fuel about fifty cents per day.
Besides this engine constantly at work. there are
on the place two large windmills, The Storm
King > and d" His Queen" that, whenever there is
Il breeze, are bnsily engaged in pumping water to
the surface. which is led all over the grounds. The
of this beautiful and valuable estate
need fear no drought, for the supply OF water
from the lower stratum of Kulaokahua is never
failing. There are on the grounds some 5000
young and thriving cocoanut trees-which in time
will alone be a fortune to the owner-besides
fruit and ornamental trees and a con-
renewed crop of grass for making hay.
Mr.. Ward is SO well satisfied with the result of his
with the Wyckof piping that he in
tends ere long to lay several thousand feet more
on the grounds.
To any one desiring information as to cost, etc,
Of the wooden piping, we beg to refer to Messrs.
". G. Irwin & Co., who are the agents in Honolulu
If the American Pipe Company.