Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-11-15
STARTED WORK.
Kingston, Phil & Cooper Begin
to Work at Once.


Grading Yet This FaIl-Millbe Ready
to Start up in Full Blast Next Spring.
will Finish the Locks and Dams on
Time.
Mr. f. c. Kingston, his private
Secretary Mr.. Kerr and Mr.. John
McGregor. his superintendent, have
been in Morgantown looking over
the ground preparatory to starting
work on the six locks and dams be-
tween this place and Fairmont. They
have gone over the ground thorough
/ ly and have inspected all of the sites.
In addition to looking after this they
have been up the Morgantown d
Kingwood to inspect the granite
quarries up there and to see if the
stone could be used for the purpose
of building the locks and dams.
1t is optional with the contractors
to use crushed stone or river gravel.
In case they use the gravel they have
foNboat it from the Allegheny river
Ito the sites up here The stone can
be quarried UP the NJ & K and run
up the F., NJ. d P to points opposite
the locks and then taken over the
river for use.
Mr. MacGregor was seen at the
Peabody by representative of this
paper and made an authorized state
hent in regard to the work and to
the intentions Of the contractors.
He stated in answer to a question
that the five locks and dams would
be completed and the lock wall il
the sixth closed up within two years
which is the contract time for the
completion of the work.
"There is no reason that we
shouldn't get done and we will fin
ish on time. We have made rec
ord along that line and do not pro
pose to go back on it, There is am
pie time if we use all the men we
can put ON the work and that is
what we are going to do. There
will be about six hundred men en-
slsl6yed on the locks and with the
others who will be employed on
qualries and at other things in con
nection with the improvement there
Twill be fully one thousand men at
work during the coming Summer.
1--WE have already started work on
No. IL. There are about twenty
teams at work and we will have six
ty men up there in day or so.
They will do a great deal of grading
on the river bank and will get the
Golfer dam ready so that we can
start at once in the Spring to put in
the lock walls We have built a
number of shanties for the men up
there and they will be there all Win
ter doing everything that can be
done under the prevailing weather
conditions.
"We can do nothing at number ten
this fall as it is too late to concrete
any but we will start in the spring
and within a very short time we
Twill have the lock ready to be turn
ed over to the government Three
of the locks and dams will be built
during the coming summer and will
be turned over for the purposes of
navigation.
ut is our intention TO build sid
Il ings opposite each lock where we
will receive all the stuff that we
have to bring by rail and will then
transfer it to the west side of the
river which is the working side for
each of the locks and dams as the
locks are in each case located on
that side of the river.
20, ', for will ha raf bor
duous but we nave contracted for
two Lidgewood cables at cost of
twenty thousand dollars and will
place them as soon as they are re
ceived. One of them will go on
fourteen and the other on twelve
They will each have a capacity Of
I'VE tons and will work on a track
lgnr hundred and fifty feet long on
the east side OF the river, permitting
us to reach anypart Of the lock and
dams and place our material.
The slack water from ten will
reach eleven and this in turn will
reach twelve. BY the time that we
heed the water at eleven we will
have ten completed. Work on
twelve and fourteen will throw the
water up to thirteen and fifteen
and we can take our material up by
water which is much cheaper than
by rail. However we intend to take
it either way that proves to be the
most expeditions.
1T will always be kept in mind
that we intend to finish in two years
and we will subordinate everything
to that end. In the meanwhile we
will make Morgantown our head
quarters and will work from here.
We will open an office here and have
y, another on the works. There will
Il salephones put in from town to