Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-07-25

Hedd 30 f. average weight per II. rs his
Head 20 T. Average weight per fl. sos lbs.
Beyond this the table does not 90,
perhaps because Of Is Of the great
cities 81 the United States named in
his tables the highest head IS 200
feet. All come up TO or 90 beyond
F%anning's standard except Baltimore
which falls short in all its small pipes
but from y up goes beyond probably
because it uses a large impounding
reservoir and never uses direct pres
sure on its small pipes.
According to my computation the
iron should weigh 44.2 pounds per
foot. Mr.. Redfeld. an engi!.ecr Of
Minneapolis. advised me last winter
that when the head was to be about
100 feet the 9 inch pipe should be 30
POUNDS 20 the foot, another. that if
the head should be 400 the s inch pipe
should be % pounds TO the foot.
Milwaukee with 300 feet head has SOIL. pipe
Chicago with s&5 feet head has 30 Id. pipe.
BROOKLYN with 1875 feet head has % To. pipe.
RIVER rams with 20 feet head has % lb. pipe,
1t does seem to me that with $50
feet head we ought not to think of
using less than SO pound. good. elias
tic iron-especially when direct pres
sure will be brought to bear.
The 1605o feet of 8 inch pipe at AZ
pounds To the foot will weigh ga, 100
pounds, 337 1-20 tons and AT S23 per
ton will cost $7752. The II460 feet
necessary to reach from the spring to
the stand pipe that am advised by
the books and consulting engineers.
not contractors, should weigh at least
50 pounds TO the foot viii weigh 53G.-
800 pounds. and the remaining 1890
feet Of s inch pipe to reach Mr.. Never
Jr. 5, house a. IS pounds to.the foot
the lowest used BY Rochester. where
they use reservoirs with 200 feet head
with direct pressure would weigh
pos, 800 pounds, IN all o3S.S50 pounds
or in round numbers 419 500 tons,
and would have cost June lst 1895:
Scotia difference of 1891.
Specials. such as Is, Us, bonds and
crosses cost at least $50 per ton. For
them the engineers and contractors
usually estimate ) per cent additional
but in this case we will add for the s
inch pipe in which there will be many
bends and crosses only 8 II per cent
-$33S.
The laying OF 31050 feet of pipe is
estimated at $4700.50 which is at Is
cents and l 1-2 mills per foot. Can it
be done? Stoughton and Rhinelander
each had their pipe laid 6 feet under
cover Richland Center and Dodge
Vile had their bitches dug 5 feet deep.
BY Fannings tables, p. SOP, the bot
tom of the pipe shouldin this latitude
be six feet, but he also, after his
tables, advises to protect pipe and the
circulation should be maintained in
cold weather as hydrants are very
sensitive. 1t must he conceded that
the bottom OF the pipe must be laid
8 feet deep. Beweenburg last year
wrote that 8 inch pipe ought to be
laid here in the city at 80 cents per
foot. Richland Center paid about 81
cents for laying 4 inch pipe equal to
IS cents for s inch pipe. c. ID. Bar
stow in 1892 laid nearly IL miles of
pipe in one contract in a southern
city. The work was completed in 20
days. He used horse power where
ever possible. The ditch averaged 3
feet. He paid his laborers SIPS Der
day-a few extra good hands $1.o0-'
his blacksmith Sl.50 per dav who
dressed 60 picks per day and did other
work-and his calkers S1.50 to 5000.
In that contract he laid over ) miles
OF $ inch pipe and it cost him 16 10
cents per foot See cost Of LAYING
water pipe bvC c, d. Barstow. Weston
ia his work on laying water pipe, e,-
timates the cost of laying S inch pipe
1 feet : inches deep at 70 IL cents.
The pipe cannot be laid at Is cents
unless good hands and mechanics are
employed at 20 cents per dav. Red
field wrote me that it would cost from
80 to 80 cents per foot to lay 5 inch
pipe and if we struck gravel or rock
or hard clay it would 30 away beyond.
The ground has been examined and
very many holes prodded in it and |
informed that hard gravel has
been struck in many places at 3 feet
and very generally at 1 feet. Over a
large portion of that route it will cost
so cents per foot-but estimate it at
80 cents, it viii then cost TO Fay the 5
inch pipes alone $4315. Hydrants at
$15 dollars each are in the estimate.
Three consulting engineers, who do
propose to bid on the contract adj
vised that good frost-proof double
nozzle hydrants will cost from $24 to
$50 each and with the service mains.
which or the principal streets where
large fires can occur should be 6
inches will cost more. Those from
the new school house TO Mr.. Never,
Jr will cost at least $3.50. Add gates
and boxes for this S inch pipe - of
amount named sos.
The Eng. News OF June last in its
Buyers Directory gives names Of firms
that cast this pipe and none are near
er than CINCINNATI, The freight to
Milwaukee | am advised is II cents
per hundred and probably 20 here,but
if estimated at 10 cents the freight
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