The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-23
PUMP INSTALLATION
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ming of the dam, to the time when
brother-in-law Walker was figuring
that the whole dam could be built for
seventy-five thousand dollars. In his
coming down the Waikiki side of the
dam site was enough to sluice all the
earth into position. When it came
down to actual sluicing, however, it
was found that this figuring was as
far one way from plumb as the figures
of cost We're off the other way, and
it was up to Rowland to make good for
his relative in the way of water for
sluicing. So he bought the pump, the
idea being that the government would
take the place of nature in putting
some water uphill. The excuse given
the Auditor for the purchase of the
pump, to justify the expense, was that
| it was necessary to conserve the wa
ter from the natural stream for the
use of the city, although there has not
been any appreciate drought to speak
of to account for the sudden great de-
mand for this water which has been
figured on for the past two years.
1t is another case of making the con-
ditions fit the specifications, expense
| be blowed.
The idea of purchasing the pump is
claimed by Rowland, although a men
ton of pump is made in Schuyler's
report. He was asked if the pump
was Schuyler's scheme.
mo, SIR he answered, folding his
This pump is one of the dozens of
suggestions that I made that received
the highest endorsement of Mr.. Schuy-
| ler."
But even with the greatly increased
flow of water obtained after the valve
was cleared yesterday it was shown
I that seven men We're enough to shovel
| all the earth that could be carried. At
this rate, even if the full capacity of
the pump is obtained, the number Of
men in the sluicing ground will not
be over dozen, who will come
| long way short of loosening up and
! sending down the nine hundred yards
a day promised by Rowland when he
conceived his pump scheme.
THE. MAKIKI RESERVOIR.
1t is the general impression, helped
out by the remarks made to the Ad-
vertiser some days ago by Holloway,
| that the Public Works Department is
| ambitious of ouSting the contractor
and finishing the Nuuanu dam itself.
If this comes about it is to be hoped
that the result will be better than has
been shown in the building of the. Ma
! It'll iab NV I,a
department about the beginning of
1906. The job consisted in the placing
of six hundred yards of concrete and
! Rowland estimated that at the outside
/ ten dollars a yard would be a good
price to pay. So it would and any
competent contractor could have made
money at it at that price, but the
department thought that the profits
on the six thousand dollars should go
to the department and set in to do the
work themselves, Rowland in charge.
The six thousand dollars was taken
out of the Honolulu Waterworks gen.
eral fund to finish the work. 1t faded
away like SNOWFALL in Kilauea and
the last Legislature was importuned to
vote a hurry-up appropriation of $4,000
ervoir." Now this five thousand dol
lars has gone and there are bills in
the hands of the Auditor, held up, for
$4S5 for labor and $685. for cement
work, while there are other outstand-
ing bills yet to come in for lumber,
! teaming and other work, making a
total to date of nearly twelve thousand
dollars to do six thousand dollar job.
And the dam is not finished yet!
EXPENSIVE ROCK FILLING.
Some figures have been secured re-
lating to a part of the construction
at the reservoir that has been over
looked up to the present. They relate
to the cost of placing in position the
: big rock fill for the outer toe of the
reservoir in the gulch, the rock being
brought down from the quarry on a
tram line.
This tram line was extended to the
quarry on the recommendation of Kel-
logg. the cost of the line being in the
neighborhood Of $1,000. 1t was esti-
/ mated by Kellogg that the rock could
, be carried out and deposited at a cost
of sixty cents cubic yard, but it Is
|
ceeds two dollars a yard.
The tram line, which was supposed
to bring down sixty loads a day, only
averages twenty-three, which accounts
in part for the big cost, the rest COM
ing in in the fact that the quarry ma
terial, which Rowland estimated would
be only ten ter cent. waste, is more
, than half stuff unsuitable for the
work.
In connection with this tram line g
funny. incident occurred on Wednes.
day. when the Governor and his party
visited the quarry. This incident was
the fact that the assistant govern
ment engineer in charge of construc.
ton, the title borne by B. f. Rowland
put in the biggest part of the morn
ing oiling the rollers on the track Sc
> that the Governors car would rur
smoothly over the government-operat
ed line. At salary of s175 a month
such oilers come high.
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