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Show \ fl: ‘ comino school year at a salary offi.'£»fl.®0€).lfgM The following communication from t he Anch1tects Defective stones north colonnade central e 1,. Messrs. Cannon,Fetzer and Ramm.Hanson, addressed to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, concerning building the removal of certain defective stones from the‘ north colonnade of the new centrai buildiny, was_ read: June‘lO,1914 Hon. waldemar Van Cott, Chairman, Building Committee University of Utah. . Salt Lake City, Utah. ; W} Gentlemen: We formerly directed Mr. MOran as Contraet-.1 or to remove certain defective stones from the North Colonnade of the Canral Building. It was intended that these should be removed at once before final payment is made. _ We are now of a mind to put theSe defecain tive stones on probation, as it were, instead _' of ordering them out at once. . " .i We have hiely made an experiment on eerie tain large blocks of the same stone'in -the L yards of t.ne Ashton-Whyte Stone Co., whicht -were rejected by the sub-contractors on therr (11 -co1onnade icentral 1building own motion on account of defeCts appear1n0,1mae' them before they were cut to final shape; these 1 rejected stones have lain out in all k inds of"‘" . 'wea.ther for possibly 18 months, thus under-i if going a pretty severe test. The experiment 5 ' consisted in breaking in pieces the tworbl which appeared most defective. We found-? the stone at heart was sound and that. t: face defects which were in the nature'"o cracks did not penetrate very far into t interior. JLf:1v 1%" As a result of this expe-mm sideration of the circumsta ' opinion that the defects inn the Central Building colu'nl d.eep seated, and there the stability of the " actually in placein ‘ |
