The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-01
BIDS FOR THE
H|LO BREAKWATE En-
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represented him, said would average
about $50 pounds per foot the require
ment being that it must weigh not
less than $50 pounds per cubic foot.
Captain Orwell said that the Mayer
! bid was the lowest, if all other con-
ditions were complied with, and that
the notice of award would be made in
| the usual way and in the usual course
of business. In the meanwhile he
would examine the sureties offered and
| the bidders as to their experience,
means, and ability to complete the con-
| tract. This he began doing right away,
so as, if possible, to make his recon-
mendations in time TO be sent by the
Alameda today.
1.-The bids are rather higher than
expected" said Captain Orwell. Still
| this is new work. There has never
been any just like it done here, and
! it is not TO be expected that bidders
will make bids on which they are liable
to lose money. After this work has
! been done. and experience has been
gained. so that contractors will know
| more exactly what work can be done
for, perhaps closer bids would be re-
quired. At present it must be deter
mined whether these bids are reason
able or not.
"It is not a question of whether the
| work can be completed within the APP
preparation at the bids made here to-
day. The entire appropriation is. avail
able. A part of it must go for super
intendence and office expenses and the
remainder is available for the work,
and can be expended as far as it will
co.
D. E. Metzger is the superintendent
of the Hilo Railway Company at Hilo.
He offered as sureties Mark P. Robin
son, who qualified as being worth $780,
900 and B. F. Dillingham;, who qualified
as being worth $250,000. AS to where
he proposed to get his stone and the
appliances he would use in the work,
Metzger went far more into detail than
any other bidder. His statements in
this behalf was as follows:
IT propose to obtain the stone from
Puma district, Island of Hawaii, at a
point about one and a quarter miles
from the present Puma terminal of the
Hilo Railroad, about twentysix miles
by rail from Hilo, and at point or
points along the Puma branch of the
HiIo Railroad, about ten miles distant
from Hilo.''
AS to his equipment and appliances,
he said: The undersigned will use
the tracks and equipment of the Hilo
Railroad Company for the transporta-
ton of materials from the quarry site
to the breakwater site. The railroad
company's tracks will be extended TO
both points as early as the necessary
materials can be secured. Sufficient
rolling stock equipment, suitable for
the purpose, to transport a minimum
of 500 tons per day will be provided.
The Hilo Railroad is a standard gauge
road, having a rock ballasted roadbed
laid with 60-pound steel rails. Tt owns
and operates forty-eight miles of track.
1t has at the present time five locomo-
tives, two of which have Is by "a CYL
inders and one 16 by "a cylinders. At
the present moment is has twenty 3d.
000-pound capacity fiat cars and ten
30,000-pound capacity flats. To these
will be added at the earliest possible
moment at least thirty more 10000
pound capacity fiat cars, and an addi-
tional 76-ton locomotive if necessary
and stone will be blasted out, in most
part, by chamber blasts. the pieces too
large to handle being block-holed and
split with powder.
"A locomotive crane of twenty tons
lifting capacity will be used for load
ing at quarry, and in addition such
derricks as may be necessary to pro-
vide a capacity equal to the capacity
of the construction equipment, esti-
mated at not less than 500 tons per
day.
I'm putting the materials in place
in the breakwater / will use a Bottom
capacity special construction revolving
locomotive crane, having an estimated
capacity of 600 tons a day. IF, after
construction work is begun, / consider
it expedient and economical, I will
without delay build a staging upon
native hardwood piles, with vents of
twelve to eighteen feet apart. and work
from this, barring the smaller stones
off the cars.
s"The value of machinery plant to be
used, exclusive of all railroad equip
ment, is estimated at $4,000. The value
of railroad tracks and equipment to be
used in the work is estimated at s435,-
600. In addition to the foregoing
have at my service. through my rela-
ton with the IIilo Railroad Company,
car shops of the value of $4,000, To-
Gated within one and half miles Of
the breakwater Site
George H. Mayer, the lowest bidder,
is the manager of the Standard Oil
Company in Honolulu. He offered as
sureties William H. Hoogs and ]. j.
Belser, each of whom qualified as be-
ing worth at least $4,000.
AS to the place from where he would
get his stone, he said that he would
get it from land under lease to L. A.
Andrews from Waiakea plantation,
said lands being within radius of one
mile from breakwater landing, and
another quarry two miles from Hilo,
on Waiakea plantation lands, on line
of Hilo Railroad"
As TO his equipment and appliances,
he stated in his bid:
Il will use the following plant and
| methods in carrying out the contract:
Quarry derricks with thirty h. p. en-
| ripeS Railroad from Tlua TTC