The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 295
Variations of this method are. ofcourse, made necessary by circumstancesin different localities. Sometimes quick-sand is encountered, which makes it im-possible to get the wooden shell tightenough to continue the excavation. Sandor silt runs so rapidly through the cracksas to form a very serious… … A completed job. to the point where the quicksand is en-countered and this pipe sinks to someextent in the quicksand. They then diginside the pipe, and as they dig, the pipesettles with them until they strike amore stable material. They leave the pipe in the position to which it settlesand continue…
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