The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-25

twenty million gallons, or enough u
supply the city for eighty.four days.
BY the end Of the year the work will
have been completed, when there Will
have been excavated ore-half million
cubic yards Of earth; or one and half
billions of dirt. There Will have been
built forty thousand cubic yards OF rip
rap and fifty thousand cubic yards Of
4 concrete.
Seventy-f1ve thousand barrels OF cement
were used IN the concrete work. It took s
i've hundred freight cars TO carry these
barrels which weighed thirty million
pounds.
There are eighty acres In the basins.
which hold twenty million gallons OF
water or ono hundred and sixty million
pounds These figures give tome small
idea IT the magnitude OF tho work.
Small Army of Diggers.
Four hundred men are on the work,
and one hundred and nifty mules are
dragging dirt from morning until night.
A great grading machine, attached to
traction engine, simply devours tho
earth and enlpties 1t Into wagons as 1t i
makeg Its perpetual rounds. Midway
Of the basins great crisher8 grinds the
rock that helps to make the concrete
while In the canal a barge with steam
pump sucks IN sand from the canal bot 4
tors to the mixing house.
Behind the crusher is n solid hill OF
rock and from this quarry Messrs ms ms
ston and Company procure the stone ION
the cr,isher. It's q small settlement, tho
basins, connected by its own railway,
which boasts n single train and but onA
engine. tho "Ida, which Engineer HornoS
sends along at a ratio that comes close
TO a. mile n minute. or so 1t seemed to
Times. Dispatch man, who rode on the
cow-catchcr.
Not so fast but doing steady work,
were tho finest lot OF mule teams that
can be met with in n ten days Jour-
ncy. and behind them grinned as genuine
n tribe OF Senagambian jchus ms ever
ca,ns out Of captivity.
Their names arc primitive, snch as
Sugar Foot" Fool" Snake Doctor,
High Monk" Hopper Grass" River
George, and North Carolina" These
are the names they recognize, and they
know no other
The men who have carried the worA
along are first Messrs. Winston and Com
pany, OF Louisa. Va who also built tho
$yVnchusetts dam for Boston. the Vir-S
r,nia Passenger and Power dam and
power house. the Chesapeake and ONO
!y,aduct. drainage canal in Chicago. and
who are now prominently mentioned as
tho successful bidders for tho Croton
watershed dam outside OF New York
city. Messrs. c.. T, Boiling, superint teri
dent OF the city water works; Rchard
AZ Boiling. resident engineer: W. f. Rus
kcll. inspector OF concrete: Charles Mann,
inspector: James j. Walsh. sanitary In
spector; g. NJ. Adams. timekeeper; Lit
Teton Fitzgerald. bookkeeper. ana ~. e r.
Mills manager OF comn1!ssary depart
snent.
Up on the hillside above the dynamite
pit which holds enough concentrates
force to wreck Richmond. stands the
camp. On one side live the manipulators
OF the crap bones. while on the other
reside the descendants OF Romulus and
Remus OF happy memory
How long will It take for the water
to clear up after 1t gets into the basins!,''5
asked The Times Dispatch man.
Not more than twenty hours, was
the reply, under adverse circumstances.
rho people of Richmond will get clear
water, for the basins hold supply thas