Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-09
WILL NEED WISDOM.
The Councils Requirement on The
Gravity Sewer Problem.
BRICK on CONCRETE, WHICH
A Question on which There is
Considerable Diversity u
opinion.

The auction of whether the gravity
sewer system will DO constructed Of
brick on combination Of brick and
concrete, which comes up In the City
Council tonight, II causing good deal
OF stir with the contractors and brick
makers md masons. The majority OF
the board OF public works has decided
10 recommend brick, but a minority
repOr, for the combination will also be
submitted, and the Council will likely
have to 10 through the whole quos.
ton.
The recommendation Of the city
engineer, Mr.. Doremug, and Of the
New York expert Is NOT IN harmony
with the idea CT majority OF the
blari VI public work., aud this may
prove an important factor IN the
Council's deliberations. For II cannot
be- disputed that the engineers have
both technical knowledge and actual
experience on their eide. The CONF
binaii0n system they recommend iBt that
now adopted In the great cities, whore
all brick sewers have received the
moot elaborate tests. Notably IL this
the case In Paris, which has the best
Constructed sewers 10 the world. There
the foundation Is Of ooncfetc1r cement
and the conduit OF specially burned
brick. In respect to this latter item,
the western bris kmakoTs have not at.
tained the facility Of tqualing 1t,
though cool brick 10 produced.
The item ON which the contractors
hinge mostly Ia that OF eXIense for
brick. IL only this article ~ used,
there will be needed at least 10000, 900
brick. While 1t Ia doubtful whether
the kilns now In operation can furnish
the necessary amount In the required
time, there h no doubt that II they
are hurried thc quality viii DO cor.
reepondingly poorer than II ought TO
he. But this may be avoided by
"mahiRR haste slowly" But that
viii not reduce tho cost. There IN n
brick combine here, to which the
individual brick yards sell at 50
per thousand, while the combine ue.
mands for the brick MS 1t passes through
their hands not less than 81 per thou
sand. This means difference OF
$4,000 to tho city between the two
kinds. And then the contractors agree
with the engineers that tue all brick
sewers will be inferior 10 the other
system.
IL combination concrete and brick
10 used, 5000. 900 VI the lalter viii meet
the demand. When the question
Of employment comes IN this
amount will employ every local
bricklayer, and consequent upon full
employment there will be good wages
II lO,0O0,000 more brick are to be laid,
outside workmen must be brought In,
and experience has shown that these
contract laborers are not up TO even an
ordinary standard as members OF the
community.
Contractors state that, with the com.
binntion system, all tho local brick.
layers will be- engaged, and three times
the number OF labOrers that there would
be extra bricklayers necessary. That
", for each 100 bricklsyers employed
there would he 600 laborers. II all
brick was used these laborers would
give way to outside masons, and there
would be say 50 each per day going Ia
200 OF these, insteai OF 90 per day "a
each OF 800 local iaborers. In the lat.
ter case the money would 10 10 home
workmen, In the former to those slipped
In temporarily.
OF course the brick combine and tn.
mnsons are against the concrete propo.
sitlon, and the question as II stands ID
n very interesting one. IL Ia to be hoped
that the council will duly consider II
In nil It's aspects, and adopt that course
most beneficial to the city both for the
employment OF men and the quality oil
the work to be- done.