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SAN YRANCjSt 20. April -&.-W~.s
.upon the constru, ,tion of the naval
,coaling station at Honolulu VIII Pc
rushed from this time until Its con-
pietion, which is expected to be III
about eight menth his. The contracts
signed BY the officials Of the depart
ment nave been received .by the COZ
tractors. Cotton Brothers OF Oakland.
who will construct the piers, and
Buckman * Campbell. WHO sill Do
the dredging for the slips. Word pre-
,oeded the actual arrival OF the farmai-
iy signed CONTRACTS by teleg:aphic
notification from Washington t. the
men who viii do tho work that they
would be given jobs, and they have
made all poss BILE prsraratio1s TO- the
.posecution OF the undertaking.
The work 1 dretisjng for the slips
will be one of some magn,tuls, as
there will have to be ,semoved frog the
bOttop OF the bay something axe
100000 cubic yards OF coral. I1ere
~,II he some little Of this which vii!
offer easy dredging, as 1t Is soft and
partialiy di.int. grated by the flow
of fresh water from the stream
which comes into the By at poiu'
close To the site Of the cosiins station
The greater part Of the dredging
however, will be in hard coral, which
will have to be blasted lsf'ore II can
he elevated and sent ashore. For the
purpose OF meeting the conditions
which obtain in the character OF the
bottom upon which they nrst work
Mr.. hickman has designed and Is nov
having cons ructed "a complete ne"
dredee or shovel which will be nsed to
bring TO the surface the broken coral
rock af,er the blas5ing fran the
bottom.
The tipbers for the barge. which
will carry the ,iredge, nave been go'
out here snd PIT together, SO ithat
after the dismantiing anil shipping tc
Hon olulu, there ~ill be little delay
and less expense IN putting up tAt
float. These timbeis have now b"r
shipp,d in the Mary Foster. and there
will b, ready for the machinery. whet
II has been raade sad shipped. thu
floating platform upoi which 1t Is u
work. The drd&e Is OF th@ pattern
,of steax shovel which used on thu
railroads OF the West where 1t II
amounted upon a fatcar. There mus
he in the case OF the dredge an en-
tireIy new plan OF turntable and boom
for the reason that in this case tn
drsdx,e must be constructed to go Il
a depth Of zSk feet Mellow Sow w"ser
Over the area which is to be prepared
for terths for the vessels coming IL
20 coal there is now from two 4
eighteen feet Of water at the ebb tide
and there will be work for large gam
of men all the time during the carry
ing out Of the contract.
There will be first blasting out
the coral rock, which will be raise
and dumped into a hopper on boar
a scow which will be moored aiongsid
the dredge. On this scow there will b
placed a powerful pump. which will
Keep such q stream Of water fowin
Through the System Of pipes leadin
to the shore that every bit of the co
raj will be deposited on the low land
about the docks and eoal-bunker'
All the machinery, except the turn
table and boom, will be made her
under the supervision Of the men Il
the employ Of the shovel compan!
1t is expected that actual excavation
will begin about the LIST of June.