The record-union., 1894-09-22

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harbor-improvemeut works in the Kingdom
or elsewhere.
COST OF STONE AGAIN.
Eighth-The detailed discussion of the
board of 1892 in Ex. Doc. No. A. D. q,
about the cost of royalty and hauling
stone, where they say 1.-THE contractors
and the Government are at the mercy of
the railway" may be at once disposed of
by reference to the statement already
made as to the royalty from the land
! quarrles not exceeding I24 cents per cubic
/ yard, which IS guaranteed by Mr.. Hum
tlngton, President of the Southern Pacific
/ company, and by the guarantee also
/ given by him that the rate shall not ex-
cent one-halt cent per ton per mile from
either quarry, that Is, 25 cents per ton
/ trom the Chatsworth sandstone quarry
and 3I3 cents from the Declez granite
| quarry, the distance of the latter being
seventy-tive miles.
THE rRESTLE METHOD OF BUILDING.
Ninth must decidedly dissent from
/ the board Of 1892 in the condemnation of
the trestle method of building the work.
l an very confident of its entire success.
nave no doubt that the Southern Pacific
I Company would allow the use of the
| tracks on its wharf for this purpose, and
/ the extension OF it straight out to the
! breakwater in the shape of a substantial
/ doubIe-track trestle. On reaching the
| breakwater location it could be made to
/ conform by IA curve to the line of the
| work. and both ends of the breakwaGer
| could be under construction at the same
time. The eXtremilies of the wharf
| would he quite we'll protected as soon as
| the breakwater was we'll under way, and
! that portion or 1t on the line of the work
! would be strengthened by dumping the
stone around the piles to form the base of
! 10
celIent Tor holding ground for piles, and
| II the trestie Is properly built and well
braced laterally it is not likely to be dis
! turDed.
The board has alluded (see Ex. Doc.
No. fl, p. ~ to the great
BREAKWATER AT BoULoGNE
! As being built from barges The base
may have been put in from barges, but
| the work above water was built from a
| railroad track from shore to the extreme
emu IN the sea. | know this to be the
fact from personal inspection of the
work with the engineer, and from hav-
! ing walked or ridden on a rubble car it's
entire length. At Ymuiden, Amster-
dam, the railroad was employed, also at
| the mouth OF the Maas, at least for all the
top work.
1 am confident from experience. ex-
animation and study of wave conditions
| that the trestle plan is better by far.
Ienth-In Ex. Doc. No. Al, p. q, the
board OF 1892 states that the Catalina
route has unlimited capacity" and the
railroad route limited capacity; and on
! page 81 they do not consider it necessary
! 10 investigate IN detail the trestle method
| by which the work is to be connected
with the shore, because it is based upon
an aSsuln ptlon which must be regarded
as inadmissable, that the structure is to
be completed in 800 working days" re-
| curing "a quarry output OF 5000 cubic
/ yards per working day"
ACCESSIBLE MATERIAL.
! have already stated that from the two
quarries available 5000 tons per day,
about 3, 100 cubic yards, can be easily
quarrled, loaded, hauled and unloaded
have no doubt of it whatever, and | am
satisfied that the railroad company would
! do this, or even more, if it had the con-
tract with this requirement.
Eleventh-In order TO settle some of the
important questions discussed unfavor-
ably for Santa Monica or Port Los An
| geies by the board of 1892, and to form
my own judgment by appeal to the high
! est authority III the matters, [ called on
| Mr.. Huntington, President of the South
ern Pacific Company, in San Francisco,
and asked him to give you, through me-
definite guaranty in regard to
! ~ The royalty on the stone from the
| land quarries controlled by his company.
% The rate on stone haul.
81 His willingness to permit other rail-
road companies 10 reach the harbor at
| Port Los Angeles, where interference
with his tracks or right OF way might be
necessary; and
a. 70 confirm the report which had
reached me that his company would give
the Government 100000 if Congress
! would appropriate this year $780, 900 for
undertaking the breakwater at Port Los
Angeles.
1 can now assure you on all these
points:
~ That the royalty shall not exceed l23
cents per cubic yard.
! " That the haul shall not be greater
| than one-half cent per ton per mile.
! ~ That he will give the use OF part of
/ his cOmpany's right of way. if REQUIRED.
to any other railroad to reach the wide
| strip OF land lying above high water from
| Santa Monica village to wharf location,
| or he will give the use of his tracks, if
necessary, on the same terms that his own
company uses them.
az lie confirmed the report already
made to you in reference to his company
| giving 100000 toward the work.
ROOM FOB RAILROADS.
The strip of land mentioned, along the
| beach, has been said to be too narrow for
| any tracks other than those of the Soutb-
ern Pacific. l have examined the ground
and the property map of the owners, and
| find strip outside OF the 50-foot strip of
the Southern Pacific, from l5O to 200 feet
| wide, to the hlgh-water line, the entire
| distance along the shore under the bluff.
Again, the beach between high water and
| low water is generally 200 feet wide. so
that there Is abundant room for several
railroads, each with a double track and
the necessary sldings along the entire
harbor front.
DEFENSE OF THE HARBoRs.
Tweltth-As to the comparative condi-
tlons as to the defense of the harbors. I
do not claim to be military engineer
and will not discuss them, but from the
topography which l have carefully ex-
amined both at San PEDRO and at Port
Los Angeles l fail to see why fortifica-
tlons on the bluff, nearly 150 feet high,
opposite the harbor at the latter place, or
on the high land to the northward, would
not fully command the harbor and be an
excellent location for the purpose.
As to the requirements for ships of
war, they are the same as deep-draft
merchant vessels, and can be accomno-
dated in one place as well as the other so
far as safety is concerned.
THE PROTECTED AREA.
AS the protected area behind break
water in nine fathoms may be larger than
| the commerce at present demands, aud
as the cost of such break water NAV be
considered excessive, have made COM
parative estimates of breakwaters in 9.
81, S, u and fathoms with other condi-
tions for comparison. A table giving
this information is as follows:
Z q ggT 81