My deepest sympathy to the Abrahamson family in the loss of Jean Marie!

I remember we went to Hilltop school together, so we were classmates

from day one!  Margaret Leonard

 

 

 

 

Gary and Friends,

       The picture of the big cable operated digger on Dunseith’s Main
Street got me thinking a bit.  The pipe in the picture is steel pipe and
has bolt together flanges.  Sewer pipe in those days was usually clay
pipe that just slid together into an expanded flange on one end of each
pipe.  I know there is a curb stop in front of nearly every building on
Main Street where the water can be shut off between the water main and
the business.  I asked one of the city employees if the water mains run
down Main Street and if the sewer mains are in the alley?  He said they
are for the most part but there are a few exceptions toward the south
end of town  where it gets kind of confusing as they just kept going by
short cuts to places as they were built over the next few decades.  My
point in all this is that the picture of the digger on Main Street was
the installation of the new city water system.  Lloyd said he helped
unload the pipe so he can probably date the picture quite close to the
actual year.  I was probably around 4-6 years old (’54-’56?) when they
put in the sewer system down the alley between our house and the back of
the lumber yard.  I remember that we had a septic tank in our yard east
of our house before that.  Peter ‘Junior’  Mellmer helped my dad install
the sewer pipe in our house and hook up to the city sewer in the alley.Â
We had to dig up the concrete floor across the basement in order to bury
the pipe toward the west side of the house and out to the main in the
alley.  I wonder how those old water mains on Main Street have lasted
over 60 years—-billions of gallons of water have passed through them
and they’re buried in the ground besides.  Must have been some good pipe
you unloaded, Lloyd.  Thanks Gary!