Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-01-24
HarbOr Progress.

The work to be dore at the Harbor by
the L. ). & N. 5. Ry. Company this present
season. about which something has been
said among our citizens. has been given
ont for bids. and our fellow citizen-Mr.
/ X. Mckenzie was the successful bidder.
/ The award was made last Wednesday. in
the face Of the sharpeSt competition which
! this successful contractor has ever entered.
Work for the /. ). q VI. ). company Is
very apt 10 call ont competition. especially
when it is more or less heavy, as the honor
Of the company is above question. and its
sbility to meet its obligations is fully up
to It's disposition for manly and fair deal
ing. Our neighbor Mckenzie knows This
a. well, perhaps, as any one. for he has
Deen engaged as contractor in many of
their works. Indeed these merits are not
all on one side for there Is no more honor
able public servant than h. Mckenzie and
whatever he puts his hand to and contracts |
to fulfil Is carried out to the letter. in The |
exercise of the StricteSt integrity. This |
assertion is borne out by every work done, |
whether for this or other companies. His |
long experience and connection with rail |
road work makes him perfect master Of
his business, and skill and workmanship
90 hand in hand in the performance of his
pledges and labors. 1t is in this respect
that our citizens rejoice in the securing of
the work in question. The company have
done well in giving the contract to Mr..
Mckenzie from these considerations cited.
not only, but he i here on the spot, where
he Is AT home, among many friends who
rejoice in bis welfare and have an interest
in his work. He Is, therefore, doubly bound
in pride and ambition to acquit himself
we'll, He has the material on hand of the
best kind fol ready use. He has also, a
arge and favorable acquaintance with Ia
Jorers and can at almost any time fill his
4uoto without delay or troHble. His fair I
lealing with his men has always left him !
With strong hold upon them for any new
Then he has the best skilled i
workers bridge and dock d
uilders, and they can all be brought to- e
ether almost at pleasure. His name and a
redit, too, are established and he suffers ',
0 delay or hampering for any material Il
eeded for securing dispatch and effect in
his contracts.
This contract is heavy one, and covers
large amount of classified material, and \
lie greatest possible energy in the ex- n
.utiOn. The chief feature Of the contract S,
1000 lineal feet of dockage, extending p
ON the slip on the south side of the pres II
It coal chutes. lengthwlse of the marsh q
Fields Run. slip of this extent, is 81
be dredged $50 feet wide, about midway w
the width Of the marsh. Along the in -
r line of this slip the dock is to be built. do
ne dredging-which, however, is not to
cluded in this contract, will require an
eSIiInated-the removal -
from $4,000 to GO,OOO cubic wards of 70
rth. The first twenty-four feet along of
2 line Of dock, from its face, will be ap- he
1priated to what is denominated the ag
me dock, where is to be placed the ma th, th,
merry for lifting ore from the vessels and me
.ng around upon the platform dock, Tn
ming just within the other. of so feet cal
width, still inside of which, the tracks S, en-
to be for the loading of cars. These A
ks are to be built on piles, of which san
W are to be used, varying in length from ing
10 30 feet, of oak. They are to be driv- pos
for the crane dock, feet apart. from .. : :
ter to center each way. and for the Tn,
form dock, 4 feet from center to center. fou
sc are 10 be sawed to uniform height. and and
IN these timberS are to be laid and these SUI
ered with heavy plank, and the whole
cred with earth some three or four feet, TT
e taken from the high bank beyond the vidr
chute track. This kind of docking, on
1erly secured by face piling, it is thought par Par
I'd probably not without reason-wilf
up Under any weight of ore thai
ut upon it. -
T clay excavations for tba
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