Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-03-05
WILL Be ERECTED
SEWELL'S POINT.
BIDS ACCEPTED
FOR PART OF WORK.
PIER WILL he 1000 FEET LONG.
SIXTY FEET WIDE AND SIN
TY FIVE FEET HIGH.

Norfolk, March 5.-The construc-
tion of the great pier at Sewell's
Point for the Tldewater Railroad
will be under way shortly Bids were
accepted this morning for various
portions OF the work.
The dredging contract and he
bulkhead contract were awarded TO
the p. Sanford Ross Co. incorporat-
ed, of Jersey City. ~ T.. the building.
OF the substructure to the Mclean.
Contracting Co, OF Baltimore.
The contract for the steel super
structure will be awarded probably
during this week The cost of The
work let today will be IN round fig-
ures about hah million dollars
The cost of the steel superstrucmre
will be about one and one-half mil
lions OF dollars. There will go into
the superstructure about 5000 tons
OF steel, worth eighty dollars a ton
This means that the material 'n the
superstructure will cost fonr hun
dred thousands OF dollars, & while
there will be paid FOR labor er )loyod
in putting the steel I'm plac, ebout
one million. one hundred IL usand
dollars, less the comparatively staall
sum going TO the contractor in profit
and for supervision.
There will be turned loose 4 Nor
folk for labor upon the pier urir
the present year something he
close neiehborhood of one anc one
half millions g dollars.
COMPLETE IN A YEAR.
The great coal pier, which is to
be about 1000 feet long. 60 feet
wide and 60 feet high, will be com
pleted in about one year unless some
thing now Unforeseen shall DELAY
the work Chief Engineer Of the
Tidewater II. f. Fernstrom explain
ed today that the pier will be what
is called rendered pier That IS.
there will be wood tenders all
around It, against which ships shall
lie without receiving injury through
chafng as they might rise and fall
with the waves
He said that the first work viii be
the dredging OF the site for the
pier Then the contractor who shall
construct the superstructure will
erect the concrete. wood Tended piers
or pillars upon which the steel su-
perstructure shall later stand. After
the dredging OF the site shall have
been completed and the suDcrstruct-
ure shall have been started from the
shore end seaward, the contractor
for the superstructure will commence
at the shore end, following tho sub
structure contractor and building the
steel work out as fast as the con
crete foundation IS finished
EQUAL TO n. e w. THREE.
In this way the work OF building
the pier Will be fastened The pier
is TO be OF the most modern dcscrip-
tion and 10 have capacity equal to
the three piers OF the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company no Lam
berts Point. Great steel arms will
pick up the loaded coal cars at the
shore end OF the pier, turn them up-'
side down and empty them into "a
hopper from which the coal will
be conveyed by electricity 10 the
particular vessels I'm which it IS toI
be poured Self-trimming steamers
owned by an amliated steamship
company, which are now being con
structed will carry this coal from
the pier. Much Of this IS expected 70
90 TO New England 90 supply The gas
and electric properties there. owned
by Henry r. Rogers. the financial
giant. who also owns tho TIdewater
road
The Tidewater owns land enough
AZ sewelTs Point to permit the erec-
tion OF nine piers and plans for these
have been drawn Thus far however
| the building OF but one p.or Is im-
mcdlately contemplated Great as Che
enterprise Of Mr. Rogers is already
known 20 be- involving the aTpcndi-
ture OF at least s45,0O0o0o there
are those who believe thaf i. viii
eventually prove TO be rar greater.
than is now apprchendcd
General Manager Of tho Tdowator
Raymond DuPuy. in speech made
here a few days ago 60 certain cap-
Halists. who visited Norfolk is quot
cd as saying 'I believe chat Nor
folk IS going TO be n biz city Those
/ are regarded as very significant
words. considering their source.