Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-05
Great Item in Rebuilding
Of San Francisco.
Is About One-HaIt Of Total Cost
Of Reconstruction.
At Present Nearly $4,000 Men Are
Employed.

,randar than ever within five years, anu
a,hars cot fen years as the time necessary
for rehabilitation and the erection Oh
1,,,a;,cr ad.auate to take the place OF
those destroyed by earthquake ana Hte'
Four hundred million dollars Is the inquire
set as the cost of rebuilding ana LABOR
DESPITE the representations oil the VAIN
ing delegates who are responsive ~
much of the difficulty in the way 81 Stt-
ting buildings up. labor Will get nearly
half of this amount Thirty thous'thi
worLmen are employed, and this number
nrobablv will be steadily increased. II the
rehabilitation is to make the progress
that IS expected. Ordinarily the labor put
info a building costs about 50 per cent OF
the total construction charges. In San
Francisco the general average of wages
for men Of all crafts, as well as the I'M
skilled toller, is at least 20 p, cent. h.Sh-
or than the prevailing rates which ar"
usually considered in estimating the cost
of building This will give to San Fran
cisco's working forces about - per cent.
of the total cost Of reconstruction or
anout sl1a00,U1 No reckoning IS taken
here of the cost of clearing tn ru.n-pil Il
area of the burned district. This Will
amount to about $50 000, 800, Of which sum
laborers. derrick men ard transfers Will
get more tiiaii $l'''''''' III 1N''T
total Of $3.50, $4,000.
Labor leaders In that city assert that
the minimum wage scales have not been
changed BY the BuildinG Trades Councils
since the fire; they admit that the mini
mum scale is universally dSregorded. AS
a matter Of fact. tn" wages paid 10 the
various ti"9sS - '',- alI. ~.
cents l" . li'i' 'i''''i - -c-ia
StatlstAcS Hi''" '''"' '-a
@orhi'h - *,
pald ahE"h''' ~ '''' "'''N 90 ,,
ara thtf" Is ''tiN Pt'H!' &c III
wage scar Wlh ''"'''i'''- .'''""7 .''"1 -
reconstru't'"i '"l'"''' ""'''
iorc'd higher " Fi''''s
walking "'i'Ei'N anu ''''' -
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rdoyt" ~ odh l"''' '9o'
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IraueS t""flCHS' !'''H -''.'l ,
:D.ooo men are no" '"I''S'" ~ NV
ing. ruby ~" W"'hh'h ~ '
trac'td 70 ~ ~ "'' I'll II
months anu my a. -"
large nninh'FE
Inc th'ftE-""'i ,''''''9''''' 'i'''ii .,',
wages *i'>'"" Il 80 ~ '''''''''
week. even "I'i' my y" i'"I ~ n
time ana on ounu'SH'
ABOUT le'"o puli''IlS9 WI w 81 -
the lii'' All - 'it'7 NUM-
every reason W p' Al v "
reouit. - i'dsl 80, n - II II 80
bulit OF prN :. r"''' 'i'''''''''i NO.
STRUCTURES nave nv" Pi' "f 90, y" "
ast'r 1T an 'Ntl'S' 'o7' VI ''"'''' ''''''
agSreGatlnE S'""'"'
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t,ricL,,y.r. .mnlnvrd IN W., work durfn
no reconstruction pari.d viii b some
tbip,, lik,. sif oal CoA Other labor Hlll get
ont q, tbo work or boJ CARRYING and nr.
nart,,c m. mortar So o1rnoo
hd"upttniN -''''"''"" ittt "a iuiii"i
Will 60 INTO the repuiluinS. l'W vars
ago this amount of lumber would have
cost less than $4,000 The normal price
of Ium,er is 81 a thousand There is
little likelihood that it will 20 below so
a thousand. The cost of labor VIII be
about fifty per cent of the cost II the ma
terial Consequently. the carpenters and
ioin,rs will share abort s.o0OOno NJ 4.
r,oney spcnt in tho r hui-d oa- p rr,1h u.
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when coron1nte S25 OAo would II e,-0o M