DRAIN-TILES

Otago Witness, Issue 560, 23 August 1862, Page 6

DRAIN-TILES

[From the Melbourne Vc o man.~\

The fact cannot be too well known that the i price of tubular drain-tiles in this colony is £7 j per 1,000, whereas in England the price is only 12s. for the same number. In England, even before the invention of tile-macliines,the price was never higher than £5. Let us see what draining will cost, if we have to pay such an outrageous price for tiles. We can easily see how many tiles are required for an imperial acre by a reference to a t ble which we give below. If drain tiles coul! he obtained at a moderate price, we have no douljt that they would he soon in request, chiefly for gardens and orchards ; but in no case is their u*e more urgently required than around private dwellings. Let us hope that some enterprising individual will introduce a machine for the manufacture of drain tiles. We believe there are already some kinds of machineb here, but they must be of a primitive character, or else the manufacturer must have enormous profits. Wo cannot otherwise account for the extraordinary difference between the English and Colonial prices :—: — Table showing the number of pipes, from 12in. to iGin. long, required to drain one imperial acrff of laud at 12ft. to 55ft. between the daains :—

Length of Pipes for one Rod, of 10 feet. Distance between the Drains, Number of Rods yds ne re. [Ties. I Tiles. Tiles. 16J 15 i 1* !"' Inches , Inch.s | Inchei 12 I 13 I 14 Tiles. 13 i-5 I Inches 15 tor one Acre. leet. 12 IV, 14 In 1H 16| 17 13 19 20 21 22 2-5 2i 23 2-3 27 2'J 30 31 32 33 , 36 40 45 49.1 55 220 203 188J 176 165 160 1554 146 A 130" 132 126 120 115 110 105J 101 A 98" »H 91 88 85 82180 73* 66 59 s=3i 48 Tiles. Tile*. | files. 3634 3#h ; 3115 3350 30P5 ' 2871 3110 ' 2875 2660 2904 ' 2PSi 2493 2723 2;. 16 j 2334 2640 i 2440 ! 2263 2565 2372. 2205 24*23 i 2242 2079 2293 ' 2120 1966 217S 2013 15(57 2079 '1921 1782 1930 | 1830 1697 189S 1754 ! 1626 1815 1677 1556 1746 | 1613 1489 1675 I 1548 1435 1617 i 1495 1356 1555 ! 1437 i 1343 15u2 13b8 ' 12i7 1452 , 1342 i 1245 1402 , 1296 1202 1365 . 1262 1170 1320 1220 1132 1213 j 1111 1040 1089 1006 933 974 | 900 834 880 i 813 755 792 • 732 679 Tiles: 2997 2680 2484 2323 2i7S 2113 2053 1940 1845 1742 1663 1600 1518 1452 1395 1340 1294 1214 1022 11 (>3 1122 1092 105G 970 871 779 704 634