Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-07-09
CulyertS and Bridges

pany of Houston, Texas, has just !
forwarded the last car contain
ing about 200 Lin. #. OF 42-in. I
Dia. corrugated flume to the Hi
dalgo Canal Co. at McAllen, !
Texas. This car also had in it
lot of smaller diameter pipes !
for the same people, and is the
last shipment on a contract they
had with tn Hidalgo Canal Co. 7
to furnish them the large flume
which they are putting in at
their second lift. This flume is
$50 #. long by ~ in. in dame
ter, and is designed to carry the
life giving fluid from the lower
to the upper canal. 1t is made
of heavy gauge sheets (No. 12)
of specially prepared pure iron.
This iron is called ingot iron
and is made especially to meet
the needs of the culvert and
flume construction, and is war ,
ranted to 1896 per cent pure
iron, and therefore is practically
pure, and of course will not cor
rode like the ordinary roofing
sheets carrying heavy percent
age of carbon, sulphur, man.
ganese and other minerals pres
ent in usual corrugated sheets
as are used for general construc-
ton. When finished it will rep
resent considerable expendi-
ture on the part of the Canal
Company, but it is justified, and
only shows good business judg-
ment displayed by them in Sc
lecting a material which will be
permanent in it's nature for that
class of work. This flume is up
eighteen feet in the air at pump
connection and gradually falls
toward the end of earthern ca
nal. The frame work carrying
this monster pipe is put up in
the most substantial manner, out
of cypress. The design of franz
ing is very similar to the ordi-
nary railway frame trestle,
4 which is familiar to all Of us,
only not so heavy. The bents
or benches carrying the load are
| spaced 8 1T. apart, and the caps
| are long enough 70 receive the
| flume and allow room for foot
board alongside Of the flume.
i When finished If will represent
a fine piece of workmanship,
well worth a trip Of prospective
flume purchasers to see and ex-
anime it, and is an admirable
object lesson to all intending
purchasers ''to do and do like
wise" if they want to get the
most for their money.
The Corrugated Galvanized
Iron Fumes as made by the
Lone Star Culvert Co. of Hous-
ton, are class Of construction
which should appeal to all who
may be bothered with culvert or
flume troubles in the irrigated
district of our wonderful Gulf
Coast Country. The pipe is de-
signed to convey the discharge
of one 1S in. and one "a in. CEN
) trifugal pump, at the same time:
} this being the pump capacity re-
quired to furnish necessary
water to supply the lands on the
upper lift. This Canal Company
has had some trouble with the
wooden sluice boxes, and are
now replacing the wooden boxes
! with the corrugated iron cul-
verts of same make as their new
flume. This will reduce the vex-
ations and worries Of boxes Civ
ing way, or washing out in most
critical times in the pumping
season, to say nothing of salvage
on betterments and repairs need
ed from time to time.
Taken all in all, the Hidalgo
people are to be congratulated
on the evidence of prosperity as
shown by these betterments and
improvements, and are only an
evidence of what well directed
energy, backed with common
sense and cooperation, can do
in what used to be called semi
arid sands of our great State.
Unquestionably, the Lone Star
Culvert Co. have evolved a sys-
tenn of construction which in it's
variety and adaptability, simpli-
city and durability, should be in
yestigated by all irrigating COM