The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-08
PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING AND PUTTING
UP AN IRON LIGHTHOUSE.
Customhouse. New Orleans,


COLLECTORS OFFICE. April l, 1851
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
~ office until the 18th of April at O'clock for the build
ing and putting the junction of the South and South
An Iron Lighthouse,
in accordance with following specifications Said Light
house to be complete with the exception OF the lighting
apparatus.
The Light house be feet high from foundation the
deck foundation 30 feet diameter base 20 feet d.
top above ground feet nches under ground
feet Snches i6 foundation bolts ~ inch diameter. feet
long, with plates, keys and nuts.
The foundation be laid of sawed or hewed
timber 81 feet long laid in the the founda
ton OF the Customhouse, The foundation to be built
of good hard brick laid in cement.
The circular in FORM and be made sections
in height boted together through horizontal anges the
inside of the sections at the top and bottom Each of these
tons composed OF segmen boted together the
side by vertical ange The lower first section be Is feet
diameter its base 10 feet inches its top and 10 fee,
- inches in height; to have lange its base inches
wide the outer surface, through which the bolts
it to the foundation to pass Thickness OF casting in lower
section Ia inch, bolt for the inch diameter "a
bolts Second section Is feet inches diameter base, 10
feet top height 10 feet Section made in segments, the
first secon and the casting to be l2s inch
thick bolts the first Third section Is feet
base, l3 feet II feet high. Casting Ia inch thick
bolts first and second. Fourth section tings
S nch diameter at base l3 feet g. at IL feet height II
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ameter at base feet at top, II feet high segments and
bolts in each of inch diameter. The sections be placed
each other that the vertical connections shall break Joint
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