Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-07
CONDUIT WORK COSTS
LESS THAN ESTIMATED
SAVING WILL, PAY FOR COVER
ING SECTION
President Hubbard of the Board OF
Public Works Says Much Depends
Upon Conditions Found in
Other Portions

"a saving over the original estimate
will be effected on the conduit now
being constructed on the aqueduct
which will be sufficient to pay for COW
ering that section" said A. A. Hubbard,
president Of the board of public works,
yesterday. "Of course, that is on the
basis nothing extraordinary is struck
on other sections.
"You can't tell what is underground
until you get there, and the contingency
of extraordinarily difficult work is al
ways before us until the aqueduct is
finished.
but, taking the conduit by itself,
there already is an excellent showing
and a big saving in cost. That is due
partly to the high personnel of the men
in charge, and also to the system which
we have on the work. If no unusual
conditions occur to run up the ex-
pense the showing made inside of the
first estimates will be a very encour-
aging feature of the aqueduct con-
struction."
The October progress report on the
aqueduet will not be received for two
weeks 1t will afford a basis for COM
parison of a years work, with the
year ending November 1, 1907, which
was summarized in the second annual
aqueduct report. The status of the
work up to October l. which is covered
by reports received, is as follows:
Total progress Cost.
Jawbone division
Tunnel excavation. 1,122 feet $ll.673.1S
Conduit excavation $500 Gu. yds. s,S26.25
owens valley acnal-
Dredge excavation. SO. 592 Gu. yds.
Team excavation. .94,S70 Gu. yds
Total cost ..............$S3,4 17.63
Elizabeth tunnel
South Portal excav 2.o42 feet s692Ss.O2
North shafe ..,... lS3 feet ii'dSS,ts
North portal eXcav. 1,lS5 feet 46302-4S
Cement Plant
Total expenditure ..........s 1913 06s.ST
Roads and trails. .160,23 miles ISL, 44l.11
Red Rock railroad. 10. 8 miles 1,926.94
Telephone lines 1853 miles 40,S11.S7
Piue lines ......... $50 miles 1O3'7SS.Ol
The foregoing expenditures, which
which total $722.164. are purely for
progress and do not include any con-
struction work on power plants, en-
gineers and bunk houses, or surveys,
land purchases and a number of other
important features. A complete state
ment of the expenditures will not be
available. until the filing of the annual
report on the aqueduct with the board
of public works by Chief Engineers
Mulholland and Lippincott, November
80.
The report. which will be published
for general distribution and will ac-
complish an immense amount of adver-
Using for Los Angeles through the de-
mand for it among engineers who APP
preciate the Importance of the project,
will cover the progress on the work
up to November l.
The total expenditure by the city on
the aqueduct up to November 1 of last
year is 81, AIS, O50.47, of which $1102, Is
is for lands and right of way, feature
which will not be prominent in the cur
rent years report.
This years summary Will include
considerable tunnel portal work, which
is much higher in unit cost than the
open country construction still TO
come. The board of public works is
hoping for a large number of bids on
about twenty-five miles of open con-
duit work, which will be let by con-
tract November 80.
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