Transactions - American Fisheries Society . ucted some cement ponds four years ago and foundthey gave good satisfaction, standing the winters and sum-mers, and consequently the contraction and expansion thatwould come Avith the head and cold. I laid my plan before theboard and got their approval to build a cement house 32x64,everything but the roof, doors and AvindoAvs to be cement. The place selected Avas a veritable SAvamp. twehe feet ofmuck and peat filled Avith springs. AYe made up our minds if ahnilding could be constructed of cement on land of this descrip-tion it Avould be a pretty good
Transactions - American Fisheries Society . ucted some cement ponds four years ago and foundthey gave good satisfaction, standing the winters and sum-mers, and consequently the contraction and expansion thatwould come Avith the head and cold. I laid my plan before theboard and got their approval to build a cement house 32x64,everything but the roof, doors and AvindoAvs to be cement. The place selected Avas a veritable SAvamp. twehe feet ofmuck and peat filled Avith springs. AYe made up our minds if ahnilding could be constructed of cement on land of this descrip-tion it Avould be a pretty good test of Avhat could be done Avithconditions more favorable. We first laid 4x10 plank side Ijyside lengthwise of the foundation walls, placing six inch cedarposts four feet long crosswise every four feet apart. We thenAAalled n|) the sides and placed our concrete mixture, consistingof tAvo parts of ])roken stone, three parts of clean, sharp sandaud one part of Atlas Portland cement. This part of the Avall 133 American Fislwries Sociciy 133. wc liuilt two feet \\\^\\ so tliat \\v liad foi a startrr a foundationof ^xi of conereti floating on this peat bog: then we joogvd tliewall six inches on each side and built another foot. Then the 134 Thiriij-sevpiiih Annual Meeting wall proper was started, being twelve inches thick—^^that was biiiltof the same mixture and in the same manner to the requiredheight, setting our windows and door frames as we the walls we built all pipe connections for our intake andwaste water as all water used is gravity. The whole house hassettled six and one-half inches and settled all together. Xow the problem of a floor on this bog was next to be leveled the ground off fairly well and put a coating of rail-road cinders to the thickness of ten inches, using the hose andtwo men tamping all the time so when the ten inches of cinderswere all in we had a fairly hard surface. Then we laid allaround the walls a row of three incli tile dra
Size: 1179px × 2121px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookidtransactions, bookyear1872
