Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-03-30
EXCAVATION BEGINS
ON NEW SLIP FOR
PACIFIC MAIL WHARF

Active work has commenced on the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company's new
wharf. A gang Of nearly fifty men
and fifteen teams attacked the filled-in
land back Of the present wharf at the
foot of Alakea street, and in two days
have made great hole twenty or thir.
ty feet wide and over o hundred long.
Already this excavation is down to sea
level and the water is just oozing in.
1t will probably be two months be-
fore actual dredging will commence.
but meanwhile preparations are going
rapidly forward. The excavation Of
dirt will be carried down as close to
the present wharf as possible. Then
the wharf will be torn down. At pres
ent the ship Tillie Il. Starbuck is I'M
loading coal at this wharf, SO the work
OF tearing down will not commence for
two weeks.
The machinery for the dredging work
has already been ordered. The con.
tract for 1t was given to firm in
Marion, o., and inside of two months
the machinery should arrive here. Two
locomotives and twenty cars are at
San Francisco and will shortly be ship
ped here to be used In the dredging
work.
Lord & Belser have the dredging con
tract. They are now building an i'm
mense scow 100 feet long and 80 feet
wide for the dredger Three big tim.
bers arrived two weeks ago for the
dredger. and three more are expected
on the steamer Oregonian from Seat
tie, which should shortly arrive.
These timbers are Of great size and
strength. Of the very best Douglas fir,
such as grows only In Washington for.
ests.
The contracts for building the new
walls and wharf have not been let.
Only about $4,000 remains Of the
100000 appropriation of the last Leg.
islature which Is not contracted for.
This will be used In improvements on
Brewers wharf. In fact, contracts for
this have already been advertised
twice, and will be advertised again.
The new Pacific Mail wharf will run
to within 70 feet Of Naval Dock No. /.
The slip to be dredged out will be
thirty-four feet deep between mean.
low tides. an actual depth Of about thir.
ty-six feet. This will give ample berth
for the largest vessels that come into
this port, and when the harbor is dredg.
ed out the Mongolia and Manchuria
will no longer be forced to remain out.
side.
The dredging will 60 rapidly for.
ward as soon as the big dredger can get
TO work, In about three months. About
100000 will be spent for work preli-
minary to the actual dredging. The
entire contract calls for $16S,0OO
The present Legislature is expected
to appropriate $350000 for the con.
struction Of the wharf and slip-walls
When the appropriation is made the
contracts for this will Immediately DO
let.
Dirt is going cheap down at the ex.
cavation now. At present the dirt Is
being carted away to I'LL up low streets
In Kakaako vicinity. In all about $780,.
900 cubic yards will be taken from the
excavation and the government will
sell dirt cheap to anyone who desires
1t for fillingin purposes, etc.
Some curious junk is occasionally
found as the excavation progresses.
Old ropes. iron bars, pieces Of wire ca.
bles and Jumps OF coal is constantly be-
Ing disinterred. or course there Is the
usual delegation OF Japs husily employ.
cd squattlng on their launches and
eagerly snatching at the coal at Is II
turned up,