The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-03-31
CONTRACTORS ESTIMATED ON
ENcouNTERlNG GREAT DIFF.
FIScULTIES IN ExcAVA.
TlON.
1900 YARDS $4,000
viii Begin Work as Soon as Possible
on Tenth Street-Must Have
Low Water in Rivers to
Reach Required Depth.

Mr. Rich. of The construction com.
pany which haa the contract for build
ing the big sewers, said when before
the company. that he would begin
work within fifteen days If possible,
but he wanted the committee TO give
him sixty days in order 10 allow foi
contingencies. II will Of course DO
impossible 70 do any work In the
gro nd as long as the rivers are up
and The water must be very low. In.
d.ed, before much work can be done
where the excavation is 10 be very
deep
Mr. Rich stated that he would have
work begun at Tenth street and
pushed northward and southward on
Commercial avenue The excavation at
fTenth street Will be ABOUT ~ feet be
low the surface of Commercial aye.
nue. aud In order ID max this with.
out encountering water in the ground
the rivers must be down to about N
feet on the gagge. The present high
water will probably run out rapidly
from now on, and it seems extremely
unlikely that April showers viii
amount to vely much or that We may
look for much Of a June rise, in view
Of the extraordinary experiences we
have had with rain and acod thus far
this year Hence Mr. Rich viii prob,
ably be able to begin work in yery
few week. and push it through with
II tie nf no likelihood of trouble on
account Of water until next fail OF
spring. BY shat time he viii DE
able to stand good beating stage
Of water and still continue his wosk.8
when be has reached a point ahoye3
Twentieth street. ii
Mr. Rich claims that in his last bid
ae est mated the cost of excavating It'll !
quick sand at $3.50 per cubic yara.
whereas in his first bid he had fixed !
b price Of this character Of work nj
$500 per cubic yard In first bid he
eft the quantity Of such excavation an
open question and fixed his price for
~ other work on the sewers al sSS.-
100, In the second bid he took chances
N the qeautity OF such woik but /
probably made vary liberal estimate o
IS to that 0
II Is believed by some citizens hat y
he rather unreasonable talk about a
-reat difficulties likely to he en- d
ountered In building this sewer tend d
4 to frighten contractors and Induce y
hem 70 make very liberal allowance
or this character OF work The the
ny that quick sand underlies the city 4
D vast ~aicas is not b Iieved by citi '
ems who are well posted ar TO the e
ature Of the soil They believe that S
here are probably two sand ridges c
lnning diagonally through the city, s
ne in the vicinity Of fourteenth t
treet and the other near Twenty.
ighth street. neither over 200 feet
'ide, and that the resi- Of tn citv's
Dnndasion at the depth at which this i
ever VIII be laid. Is river silt or &
lay That contractors did make Id S
raj allowance for quick sand may be a
lferred from Mr. Rich's s.atem Mt II
lat II he encounters no quic s. nd a. &
II he win be about s1i,Oa1 ahead
'om which it appears tia, Mir. Rich
as flgcred on having to remove 1000
pbie yards of this character of mater. "
H. at $3.50 per yard s.
However the und rtaking at best e
I not an easy one, N he opinion of :
'ell-informed citiZcns who declare
lat some difficulties are sure 10 be
ncouniered which canuoi b. fore
ecn. Contractors are expected 10
Ike chances when working in fhe &
irih. for no che knows just what
es under the surface n