[PDF] Brick Clay Record eBook

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Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230047324

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... of completing the system. Orange county has voted $600,000 to pave fifty miles of road with brick, the work to be completed not later than December 1 of the present year. Duval county will hold an election shortly on a proposed issue of $1,300,000 worth of bonds for the purpose of com s pleting a systemof brick roads. " An issue of $1,000,000 has already been voted for the construction of sixty miles of brick highways. St. johns county is now working on a sixty-mile stretch of brick road to be completed by November 1, under a $650,000 bond issue. De Soto county has just awarded contracts for the construction of fifteen miles of brick highway under a $250,000 bond issue. The Palatka district of Putnam county recently voted to issue bonds to the amount of $208,000, part of the proceeds of which is to be used in the construction of brick roads. An election is soon to be held in Polk county on a bond issue of $2,000,000 for one hundred and ninety-four miles of brick roads. Also, in addition to bonds issued and proposed by the counties, several of the cities of Florida have voted large sums toward the construction of dependable streets. Clay Production Decreases in l9l4 There were 2,209,860 short tons of clay mined and sold in the United States during 1914, with a value of $3,756,568, according to a report just made public by the Geological Survey. This is said to be a considerable reduction from the 1913 output, but compared with that of earlier years it shows the industry to be in fairly good condition. Only in 1912 and 1913 has the production of 1914 been exceeded. Fire clay was the principal clay mined in 1914, it being valued at $2,147,277, which was a decrease from "Brickbuilder" Closes Another Competition A competition...

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230055862

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... monolithic concrete and reinforced-concrete pipe. The awards are made to the lowest price material, which is generally monolithic concrete, but in some cases concrete pipe. The concrete sewers are not lined with brick. A special development in the use of hollow segmental blocks, and, owing to their size and light weight, the work can be done much more rapidly than with brick. These blocks have been used in sewers from 27 ln. to 6 ft. diameter, and are made for sizes up to 9 ft. diameter. At Chicago, brick has been used in certain parts of the Chicago Ave. and Wilson Ave. tunnels of the waterworks system; in all about one-half mile of tunnel, 8 ft. diameter. The water-intake tunnels at Cleveland have a brick lining, and brick is to be used also in the new intake tunnel at Milwaukee. At Cleveland, a long intercepting sewer has been built parallel to the short line, and nearly five miles of this are in tunnel with a four-ring brick lining, having an interior diameter of 135$ ft. and 12% ft. This was driven in stiff clay soil. by means of a. steel shield. The bricks were laid in portland-cement mortar. and though the jacks pressed against the end of the completed lining, the only damage done was at the points of application of the Jacks, and this small amount of masonry was repaired each day as the shield advanced.' The lining of railway tunnels was at one time a field for brick, but this is now much less extensive. An example of modern work is the double-track Elm Tunnel on the Frankfort & Berlin Ry. in Germany.1' This is 21,4 miles long, and was built. under considerable difliculties, owing to the pressure or "squeeze" of the ground. The celebrated Thames tunnel was built of brick, as were the large double-track arched...