The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-31

| j. ing idle and unprotected in the
harbor at the mouth of Nuuanu stream
may be secured by Clark Henry
dredging contractors of Stockton, Cal
| ifornia, to dredge out the bar at Pearl
Harbor. Clark & Henry have just been
awarded the contract for this work
which amounts, in round numbers, to
about 100000, from the Government, to
which will be added a bonus from the
plantations around Pearl Harbor OF
s26. 00O The latter is conditioned upon
the work being thoroughly satisfactory
to the Government. The contract was
awarded for 441a cents per cubic yord.
Captain Parker, who is in charge OF
the Oahu Railway dredger, put in bid
for Mr.. Dillingham; of As cents per yard.
Representatives of the successful bid
ders are expected on the next mail
steamer to go over the harbor entrance.
It is not known what dredging plant
they will use.
The Oahu Railway dredger would
have been used by Captain Parker had
he been successful, but he will now de-
vote his entire time to completing the
dredging around the Oahu Railway
wharves. Captain Parker states that
the probabilities are that the Govern
ment sdredger will be sought by the
California contractors, and that the
Government here will be willing to rent
it at a nominal rental.
The point which Captain Parker
urges is that if the Government rents
the dredger, 1t is competing against a
private concern. The same argument
arose when Hawaii became a Terri
tory, in the matter of the old Govern
ment tug Eleu competing with the
Fearless, owned by corporation. Cap
tain Parker's argument is that if the
Government had no lawful right to
compete for towage against the tugs
of a private company, then the Gov
eminent has no right to enter into COM
petition in the dredging business.
Taxes are paid on the plant owned by
the Oahu Railway Company. No taxes
would have to be paid on the Govern
ment dredger if Clark & Henry secure
the long run the contractors would be
assisted by the Government.
Captain Parker states that he was
surprised when Clark & Henry's bid
was made known, as he had distinctly
understood that the firm was not to bid
a second time. The Pearl Harbor work
was bid for several months ago, but
owing to some technicality all bids were
fnI l. Il &c
put in by the Atlantic, Pacific & Gulf
Company. 1t is understood that they
did not want any outsider to get the
contract and so made the very low bid
named. In the second bidding this
company failed to bid. The other bid
ders were: Pacific Development Co.,
471s cents; West Coast Dreging Co., 40
cents. Clark & Henry prefer working
with the clam shell dredge. That used
by the Oahu Railway Company is the
hydraulic pattern, which not only
works out the debris from the bottom
of a waterway, but pumps it a mile
distant, where it is spread out over an
area that is desired to be filled.
In this connection it will be interest
ing to compare the relative merits of
the two classes of dredger-the hy-
draulic and the scoop. Captain Par
ker states that the former will take out
of Honolulu harbor 5000 yards of mud
per day, while the latter will work out
but 1,500 yards. Furthermore, the hy-
draulic pumps the debris through pip
ing and by moving the end of the pip
ing the stuff can be spread in any desir-
ed direction, and all this by one hand
ling. With the scoop the debris has to
be lifted out, dumped into cars on
scow, which has to be towed to a rail-
road connection, from whence an en-
CINE draws the loaded cars to what
ever place the debris is being dumped
and unloaded.
In dredging for the Railway wharf
slips the Oahu Railway dredger took
out $4,000 cubic yards. This was
pumped onto tide-water lands until
several acres of new-made land have
thus been acquired by the railroad
company, whose value at present
equals the cost of the dredging and
leaves handsome bonus to it's credit.
Captain Parker also dredged 100, 900 GU
bic wards out of the portion Of the har-
Dor belonging to the Territory, in order
to open a way to the railway slips.
There is one place in the harbor lead
ing to the railway wharves which
has thrown up mudbank and every
ship going into the railway slips slides
over 1t. 1t is his purpose to make the
slips thirty-one feet deep at all points
In order to allow for the collection of
silt from Nuuanu stream and from the
shore. The work on the Eva end of
the mauka wharf is about completed,
only small piece of the spit remain
Ing.
Horse Drowned in Harbor.
An excited Jap, a horse and an ex-
press wagon played their parts in 2
tragedy on the waterfront yesterday
in which the horse was drowned H
died in his harness. About 2 o'clock
Japanese drove an express wagon upol
the dock near the garbage scows OF
posite the railway wharves. Afte
reaching the end of the wharf he turn
ed his outfit around with the back
the wagon toward the water. In at
tempting to drive the horse forward
the latter became stubborn and would
not move. The Japanese became ex-
cited, yanked at the reins and whipped