. The Street railway journal . at the discharge end at ap-proximately zero, so that a full stream of the mixture will flowfrom the end of the pipe with as little washing effect as pos-sible. The mixture contains from 20 per cent to 33 per centof sand—averaging 25 per cent. With one or the other—and sometimes two and three of the pipes flowing streams atthe same time, the amount delivered is enormous. Often in aday of 24 hours, from 12,500 to 15,000 cubic yards of sand,or the equivalent of 1000 railroad carloads, or a train sevenmiles long loaded full of sand, have been unloaded and placedin lo
. The Street railway journal . at the discharge end at ap-proximately zero, so that a full stream of the mixture will flowfrom the end of the pipe with as little washing effect as pos-sible. The mixture contains from 20 per cent to 33 per centof sand—averaging 25 per cent. With one or the other—and sometimes two and three of the pipes flowing streams atthe same time, the amount delivered is enormous. Often in aday of 24 hours, from 12,500 to 15,000 cubic yards of sand,or the equivalent of 1000 railroad carloads, or a train sevenmiles long loaded full of sand, have been unloaded and placedin location. And down in the big basin formed by the levee is the poorstreet car track. It has been humped up in spots, to allow gasand water and sewer pipes to be raised up to the surface—waiting to be again covered to a normal depth. It has hadto be raised up over the levee from 2 ft. to 6 ft., so that thatlevee may be intact all around, and with that and the littlebumps over the water pipes, it looks like a drunken roller-. THE GRADE RAISING AT GALVESTON. SAND IS BROUGHT IN ON SELF-PROPELLED SCOWS, AND IS PUMPED OUT THROUGPI 42-IN. PIPES AND DISCHARGED OVER THE AREA TO BE RAISED filled. The nice clean salt water will run off, and leave the niceclean sand filling distributed evenly on a nice clean sandyslope, from the Sea Wall to Broadway. When the grade-raising area is filled, we will commence to fill the canal thesame way, backing out as we go, until we have filled it to itsbeginning. We will do it for a quarter of what it would costyou any other way. And the city said: My! How nice coaster. It has had to cross drainage drains on quick-builttrestles of old ties; it has been robbed of dirt alongside of itto form the levees until, in places, it stands up as if on an em-bankment. Robbed of its filling it is open to every changeof temperature, and consequently kinks in all directions,until a rail fence is a straight line to it. Every joint is racked,bonds are broken, and it is
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