WOODEN WATER PIPES

Southland Times, Issue 19499, 31 December 1904, Page 6 (Supplement)

WOODEN WATER PIPES

At'- the annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural/' and Industrial Society held at New Westminster, Canada, ■ was. an exhibit of wire-wound wooden pipemun-

ufactured byi the Canadian Pipe Company. The exhibit; was ..';, well arranged, 3sspd showed samples of pipe in various '^sizes, including hydrants, cross pipes, . y's, tees, elbows, and reducers. In many parts. of the world this pipe, is rapidly takirifr 'the. place of the open;, ditch or flumes- for irrigation -purposes, as it never freezes np but retains _ the uniform temperature of. ;: water. It iB evident that on account of wood being „a nonconductor the temperature of tiie water passing through the pipe . is kept practically uniform, both in wlhtor . and summer. It is found ; -Lon -record Y that, some of the wooden pipe placed ' for. water supply over a century ago in , London is still in use, and is as goo'd as ever, and again in Detroit, Michigan, oVer;l2 miles of wooden pipe was laid ." over -50 years ago, and is /still' good.. These : tests speak for the -value of

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