St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-23
SURVEYORS ELECT OFFICERS.
Close of the Associations First An
nuaI Session.

The State Association of Engineers
and Surveyors held it's regular business
session in the Lumber Exchange yes
terday. The forenoon session was de-
voted to the presentation of papers on
various subjects and the discussion Of
the matter treated therein by the mem
bers generally. Judge Flandrau and
Judge Kelly were present at the OPEN
| ing and made short addresses, in
which they welcomed to the city those
who were in attendance from the out
side, and congratulated them on their
organization for the benefit Of their
profession.
AT the afternoon session officers were
elected as follows: President, N. Y.
Taylor, Litchfield; vice president. G
A. Johnson, ST. Paul; secretary and
treasurer, Charles A. Forbes, st. Paul;
directors, Prof William r. Hoag. state
university; William Danforth, Jr, Red
Wing; o. A. Case, Fountain; Oscar +
Hamery, Crookston; Arthur Gibson
| Window; o. j. Anderson, LIE Sueur:
Gates A. Johnson, st. Paul Standing
committees were appointed as follows:
iLeg station W. Cooley, chairman
Ease FOUNTAIN; William Danforth Jr. Red
Wing; B. f. Jenness, Wilmar; Gates A. .Tobn-
Haynes Mankato -1
Municipal-I. H. Armstrong st. Paul chair
man; l. c. Christlieb, Hutchinson; A. NJ
Ne lay mes, Mankato; Arthur Gibson, Window
M; NJ Clausen, Austin; L. p. Wolf Red Wing
Roads-Fred Davis, Duluth; F. H. Bovine
| Plpestone S. F. Mullen, Sibley county: An,
drew Forsoerg. Cambridge o. H. Sterk, Bren-
ner; n. D. Simar, Shakopee; Jonah Peterman
Granite Falls; A. B. Choate Montevideo III
a. Compton, Dodge county; c. b. Lowell
| Hastings.
| A bill introduced in the last legislature
known as H. F. SCI, relative to the perpetual
toh OF the section and quarter section cor
n n, was discussed at some length. A. B..
| Ch2ate, in paper on THE Relation of Sur
! Veyors and Engineers to the Road Improve
ment Question: said:
thlnk can partially explain the reason for
TINS inconsistent conduct on the part Of the
farmers. For the past twenty-five years the
| country has been oyerrun by shrewd ener-
get1c machine agents, who have succeeded in
convincing the farmers that modern machin-
! cry pays for 2elf. The first machinery had
to be almost forced upon the farmers When
its advantages were demonstrated, the idea
became contagious and every farmer who can
! POSSIBLY spare the money now has the latest
improved machinery. Had it not been for
those shrewd, energetic machine agents who
| for their own personal interests presented the
strongest kind of arguments in behalf of the
farmers, they would today be sowing their
wheat broadcast by hand, cutting it with a
cradle and threshing 1t with fail. In short
agricultural business would today be done by
facilities comparable with our wagon roads a
hundred years behind the times.
There has been no ore to take the place of
/
the farmers, because there is no class Of men
whose personal interests justify them in doing
the hard work on the good roads question
which those machine agents have done on the
farm machinery question. The bicycle riders
have come the nearest to filing the bill. They
have been urging better roads for fifteen
years, and to them must be credited most
that has been accomplished The farmers
nave opposed road improvement on the ground
that 1t was for the benefit of wheelmen and
you may expect them to oppose you in the
same silly way. The thing for us to do is to
make as clear a case from the farmers stand
point as the machine agents did.
j. II. Armstrong read a paper on "Restora-
ton OF Lost Corners" F. II. Elerbee pre-
sented one Modern Mathematical Instru-
ments and Their Adjustment" illustrating
his points with a number Of instruments he
had with him, and o. H. Case read a. paper
on County Roads and Their Modern Con-
struction.''
One of the interesting features of the pro-
ceedings was q report made by a committee
on the result Of a test TO ascertain the rela-
tive crushing and hydraulic strength of
Eastern sewer pipe as compared with the
product of the factory at Red Wing. in which
the Red Wing pipe made much the best show
ing. Following are the averages on the crush
| ing test:
Pounds
Average Akron. ........... .......... -. 10 260
Average granite .............. ....... - 600
Average Red Wing. ............. ........S7 $50
Where the Akron and granite pipe fractured
it went to pieces. but in the case of the Red
Wing pipe while cracked it did not fall to
pieces
Following is the report en- the hydraulic or
bursting test:
Pounds
| Average Akron -............... ............ 81