Engineering and Contracting . An Elevated Water Tank Suilt in Semblance of a Flour Bag. in having the tank built in replica of a bag of flour. Thework is built entirely of steel, which material may bereadily formed to the shape desired and at the same timeinsures great strength and unusually long life. The tankwas painted and lettered to represent exactly the sackin which the companys product is marketed. Some idea of the size of this water tower may be gath-ered from the following data: The tank holds 40,000 water. The total height of the structure is 152 ft. abovefoundations. The tank
Engineering and Contracting . An Elevated Water Tank Suilt in Semblance of a Flour Bag. in having the tank built in replica of a bag of flour. Thework is built entirely of steel, which material may bereadily formed to the shape desired and at the same timeinsures great strength and unusually long life. The tankwas painted and lettered to represent exactly the sackin which the companys product is marketed. Some idea of the size of this water tower may be gath-ered from the following data: The tank holds 40,000 water. The total height of the structure is 152 ft. abovefoundations. The tank itself is 37 ft. deep and 18 ft. wide,being built oval in cross-section to correspond truly to theshape of a flour sack. The weight supported is over 200tons. The work was designed and executed by the CanadianChicago Bridge & Iron Co. of Bridgeburg, Ont., whichmakes a specialty of this class of construction. They havealso recently constructed in the city of Toronto for theCity Dairy Co. a similar structure having a tank
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