. Ports and terminal facilities . ckpile are greater than they would seem at first. An example of theproblems involved, from the engineering point of view, may begleaned from a bulletin of the Cleveland Dock Engineering Com-pany. The stock-pile floor in point was built for the Detroit Ironand Steel Company, and is of particular interest because the plantand the stock pile are built on reclaimed marsh land. The pileis built on a wet sponge. The utilization of marshy land forindustrial purposes is of much interest because the future of scien-tific harbor building in the United States will have t
. Ports and terminal facilities . ckpile are greater than they would seem at first. An example of theproblems involved, from the engineering point of view, may begleaned from a bulletin of the Cleveland Dock Engineering Com-pany. The stock-pile floor in point was built for the Detroit Ironand Steel Company, and is of particular interest because the plantand the stock pile are built on reclaimed marsh land. The pileis built on a wet sponge. The utilization of marshy land forindustrial purposes is of much interest because the future of scien-tific harbor building in the United States will have to do withreclaimed land. Reclaimed marsh lands usually is the only landproperly located for municipal harbor works which does not requirea prohibitive amount of expropriation of existing owners. ^Bulletin No. 3 of the International Conveyor Corporation. 220 PORTS AND TERMINALS The wharf in question consists of two parts, the wharf apronand the stock pile floor (Fig. 89).The site of the proposed wharf and pile (they call it an ore. Fig. 89.—A perspective showing clearly the arrangement of dock girders and orefloor in the Cleveland dock built for the Detroit Iron and Steel Company. dock on the Lakes) was low-lying marsh, often half a footto two feet under water. The problem was to build a platformon this sponge which would carry a load of 7,000 lbs. per squarefoot, put upon it by the mountains of ore. The ore floor, 173
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