The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-15
NINE MONTHS TIME
ALLOWED THE
COTTONS
NAVY DEPARTMENT GRANTS Ex-
TENSION TO NEW CONTRACTORS
CLARK AND HENRY LOSE
MONEY ON THEIR CONTRACT.

Cotton Brothers has arranged for an
extension of the Pearl Harbor dredging
contract which was unsuccessfully at
tempted by Clark and Henry and Will
commence work on October l with a
force of forty men.
The original contract ended on De-
cember 81 but the clam shell SCOOPS
and dredging apparatus Of Clark and
Henry had proved not the best ma
chinery to handle the sand in the chan
mel and the results had fallen so far
beneath expectations that a bare quar-
ter of the work to be done had taken up
three fourths of the time. Southerly
winds, the rise and fall of the dredger
and the character of the bottom miti-
gated against the successful use of the
Clark-Henry dredger and the prOphesy
of the local engineers that the SCOOP
would never do it" was fulfilled.
The firm then sublet their contract
to Cotton Brothers, the latter to pay
them for work done and take over such
parts of their outfit as they could use
This arrangement was made with a
provision on the part of Cotton Broth
ers that they could secure an extension
of contract from the Washington au-
thortes
This has been accomplished nine
months additional time, giving the new
contractors one clear year ahead, has
been granted. Cotton Brothers how
ever expect to accomplish the work in
six months. They pay the late contrac-
tors for their work a sum in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 and take over their
two sand scows and the tug at agreed
valuation. Out of this the late con-
tractors have to pay many mCnths la
Dor and fuel bill with the original cost
of all their machinery They will lose
many thousands of dollars it is said
on the enterprise. The Honolulu
dredging Company Is said to be iden-
tilted with Cotton Brothers in the new
contract The new contractors will
handle the task of cleaning out the
channel in an entirely different way.
Instead of using coops they will use Il
suction pump, or rather two of them.
This system has worked successfully
with coral sand in Honolulu harbor
and its only possible failure to do what
is expected of it lies in the too great
rise and fall of the dredger on the bar
of the Pearl HarbOr channel and the
occasional southerly winds. The
dredger and its sCow used by Clark
and Henry will be dismantled and not
used at all by the new comers who are
now altering their dredger at the rail-
road wharf. 1t is thought that the
comparatively short length of the
dredger scow used by the late con-
tractors was in great measure RESPONSE
bic for It's heavy pitching.
Besides employing two suction
dredgers, probably to be used end to
end, Cotton Brothers will put on Il
much heavier force of men than utiliz-
ed by the last firm. Forty men will
find floating home on Almy's house
boat which after being used as a re-
gatta stand on Saturday will be trans
moglihed with hunks and other suit
able arrangements into floating
boarding house from a pleasure ARK
and will be towed down to Pearl harbor
ready for occupancy the first of next
week
There are practically only two meth
DDS OF dredging to be employed in work
similar to the Pearl Harbor contract,
where but little rock is expected to be
encountered. The bottom, from sound
ings is principally coral sand, packed
hard in places much the same as at the
to the Honolulu Harbor chan
mel. 1t is suggested that the two dred-
gers viii work end to end thus under
mining big spaces Of the bottom and