Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 187
impurities in the soil that the clean surface of metal was attacked vigorously. Fig. 6 shows a case of grooving along a joint, arising from the same cause. Theentire lower half of this boiler was destroyed. The feed-water was taken from a well,which had formerly furnished the best of water, since… … G. — A Grooved and Pitted Plate. year a sewer was built in the neighborhood and the .spring that had supplied the wellwas cut off, so that surface drainage had to be relied upon thereafter. The result wasthat the new supply, percolating through soil already saturated by outhouses and cess-pools,…
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