The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-01
RICHMOND FIRMS
MIGHTY CONTRACT
Winston and Company to Build
Largest Reservoir in the
World.
THIRTEEN MILLION IN IT
Waters OF Catskills to Be Caught
and Carried to New York
City.
THIRTEEN MILLION in 1T

In the local columns of the New
York Times of last Tuesday the fol-
lowing brief story appeared:
although their bid was approXi-
mataly s2.0OO.O00 higher than the
lowest bid submitted for the work, the
Macarthur Brothers Company, of Chi
cago, and Winston & Co.. of Rich
mond. Va, who put in joint bid,
have received the contract. known as
Contract 8. of the Ashokan Reservoir
work, by the Board of Water Supply.
The estimated cost of the work to be
done under this contract is s12.S00.000."
On the same day The Times-Dispatch
announced, with more detail. the fact
that the Richmond firm OF contractors
had taken part in the biggest con-
tract the city of New York has award
ed for long time. The story had
local interest. because Of the fact that
the successful bidders were in part
Richmond firm. However, In the brief
local story OF last Tuesday the inn
menslty of the undertaking was only
limited at.
The Richmond End OF 1t.
This New York contract is a tre-
mendous job the Richmond firm has
undertaken, but they are equal to 1t,
If one may be allowed to judge by
the splendid work they have done and
are now doing in and about Richmond
and In other parts of Virginia and
neighboring States.
The contracting firm is composed of
Messrs. j. L. & T. l.. Winston, who
have made and completed some of the
| largest contracts In and around Rich
| mond. In their little two-room Office
on the eighth floor of the American
Bank Building they figure on contracts
great and small, and when they get
them in hand they carry them out
with credit and profit to themselves.
Among the contracts they have had
in and about this city We're the build
/ ing Of the piers and abutments of the
Seaboard Air Line bridge across James
river, the foundations for the Chesa-
peake and Ohio viaduct. the founda-
| ton for the great power-house at the
| foot of Twelfth Street, and the COM
plete contract for the settling basin
| for the city of RichmUud, which they
completed last fall
Other, Work on Hand.
The firm now has contracts for the
building Of ten miles Of the Virginia
j Air Line Railway In the county Of Flu
4 wanna, and With a large force of hands
(, they are pushing this work to com,
4 pletlon. They also have large con
I tracts for road building In Tennessee,
i with the South and Western Railway
/ Only few weeks ago they completed
i a large contract with the Nlrginia1
! Railway. in West Virginia. This is the
great through line now nearing com
4 pletion. and formerly known as thu
i Underwater and Deepwater. There hay,
4 always been close business relatton
4 between the Macarthur Brothers. Q
4 Chicago, and Winston s. Co., and Thu
.i.big New York contract Is not the frs
4 they have taken together. They wer
4 associated In the construction of TIL
Wauchusett Dam, at Clinton, Mass
i which dams q reservoir of sixty-fou
billion gallons capacity and helps t
supply Roston with pure and limpi'
!, water. This gigantic job was com
!. pleted in 1905. before labor and mate
. rial got SO high. and the two firm
, made small fortune out or the con
tract.
Messrs. Winston g. Co., with the Nc
Il Arthur Brothers. are now working o.
/ the Cross River Dam, at Katonah,
\, ", and expect to have the work com
pleted at an early date,
! Their Greatest Yet.
The immensely of the new thrice
!. Mathematician contract which Winsto
7, & Coin association with the Nc
Arthur Brothers, have undertaken, ma
i, be gathered from II description of Ne,
!. York's big water scheme MS givel
7 recently by Mr. Arthur b. Reeve /
! 1.-THE World Of To-day. The facts an
i ! figures following are gathered froi
i that article.
New York had been planning for
\ |number3 years to bring down froi
J, the CetskiH Mountains enough waite
!, OF the purest and hest kind to cove
4 the entire city a half-inch deep ever
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