Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-20

which varies along the beach from 30
TO AZ feet below the surface. Soundings
were made all along the route, and the
pillng cut the proper length to reach
clay bottom. This is the first section OF
work.
The second section Is the driving OF
| sheet piling, which to be clearly UNDER
stood, is heavy timber that Is driven In
a straight line outside the round piling
on the Gulf side and serves as a pro-
lection from undermining by the Gulf.
The sheet piling is close together and
may be compared with heavy board
| fence driven down to clay bottom with
the boards upright.
The third section Of the seawall work
is the laying Of the concrete founda-
! ton. A trench over the rows Of piling
Is dug three feet deep, and into this the
concrete, the same as is used in the
wall, is placed, with two grooves In ii
where the fall proper fits in
The fourth section Of work Is the
| placing of the granite pieces. on rip
| rap, In front Of the wall. These large
| granite pieces, some weighing a ton
each are piled promiscuously In front
| of the wall on the Gulf side from three
| to five feet high, and, extending out in
| TO the Gulf q feet from the wall, this
serves as a further protection to the
| wall and its foundation from unGeruin-
| Ing. The Weghty stone viii IN time
| gradually sink into the sand beach and
! form a solid bed Of granite In front OF
| the piling foundation. The rip-rap Is
! placed In position after the concrete
] foundation Is laid by a steam derrick
| which picks up each stone from the car
| and deposits il in place In the pile OF
| rlp-rap,
The fifth section OF work is the con-
struction Of the wall proper, The wall
| is being built just as the engineers
! recommended, and is Il feet above
mean low tide, or one and three tenths
! feet higher than the highest point
reached by the storm Of Sept, s. 1900
The granite concrete is put up in al
| ternate sections Of 40 feet each.
Four steam pile drivers are employed
| In driving the piles, and each averages
! 100 feet Of plling driven each day; that
is to say 100 lineal feet Of the founda-
ton, as every row of piling means the
| driving Of four Of the sticks, which av-
erage A. feet in length each.
The concrete foundation laid in sec
lions, Is given about 10 days or so 10
| settle, After the foundation Is laid the
| rip-rap, or apron IN front Of the wall Is
laid before construction Of the wall
proper is begun,
PROGRESS OF THE WORK.
All Of this is now actually building.
| The pile driving forces are rapidly near
| ing the terminus Of the eastern end Of
| the island where the wall win Join the
! south jetty. When this feature Of the
work is finished the driving plants will
be removed to the foot OF Sixteenth
street on the beach and the foundation
forces will commence laying the foun-
dalton westward 10 Thrty-nnth street,
where the wall Will terminate Con-
structiOn was commenced at the foot Of
Sixteenth street and prosecuted east
ward so as 10 incose the eastern end
Of the island hrst, as this Is considered
the vital part OF the sea protection. a
length OF nearly $500 feet OF the wall IL
now complete.
Provision has been made for working
westward from Sixteenth street and
tracks are being laid upon which the
material is delivered for the construt-
tlon, IN Sc tracks are laid just behind
the site of the wall and an the material
is delivered Ia ears and fed from the
cars into the wall
When the whole is completed which
will be done Ia less than one year, the