The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-22
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AF TER THE
PLUM
Five Firms Figuring on
HiIo BreakWater
Contract.

There is to be no lack of bidders on
the Hilo breakwater contract, which
carries as a first item and a starter
an appropriation of 100000, to be ex-
pended within the next three years.
The bids for this are to be opened
by Captain Otwell, Corps of Engineers.
u. S. A, on March 81 at noon. Five
firms will compete with each other for
the work
Hoogs & Belser, newly created
firm, which will go into the contract
ing and draying business in Honolulu,
have had men go over the ground of
the proposed work twice and will Of
fer a bid; d. E. Metzger, now super
intendent of the Hilo railway, and L.
E. Pinkham, president of the Board
of Health, have associated themselves
for the purpose of undertaking the big
work and will submit figures; the At
lantic, Gulf & Pacific Dredging COM
pan, composed of the same people who
own and control the San Francisco
Bridge company, the corporation that
did the dredging in the Honolulu har-
Dor with the big dredger Pacific, have
had man in Hilo for some time, GO
ing over the ground and preparing esti-
mates upon which the firm will ten
der; King Brothers, an Eastern cor
poration, have also had a representa-
tive at, Hilo prepared and authorized
to bid, while another new firm, Lord
& Whitehouse, will be in the field. This
firm is supposed to have the backing
of II. Hackfeld & Co. in their work
for the big contract. Both members of
~fhe firm, accompanied by Frank E.
Thompson, leave for Eilo on Tuesday
to have another look over the ground
and check up their calculations pre-
paratory to bidding.
The above list of contractors will
furnish number of surprises, consist
ing as it does of familiar names in new
combinations.
The breakwater, as planned, is to
have a length of ten thousand feet, of
which 1900 feet consists of an arm
running from point about three-quar-
ters of mile northeast of Reeds Bay
and extending across the mouth of the
harbor so as to check the prevalent
southeast by east swells. The second
section extends almost due west from
the end of the arm and is planned
to be 250O feet long. As a preliminary,
100000 has been appropriated by Con-
gress, which is to be spent on the
shore end and made to go as far as
possible. The rubble mound will have
a height of eleven feet above the mean
tide level and will be built in water
of an average depth of twenty feet,
although in two places the depth of
the water is over forty feet. The $780,
900 now available will not be sufficient
to complete the work, but further ap-
preparations will be forthcoming, ac-
cording to the concensus of opinion
among the party of visiting Congress
men here last summer, who went over
the location of the proposed work and
studied the whole situation thoroughly.
1t was after this inspection that Con-
gressman Davidson, in a speech at
Mooheau park, stated that the money
would be available when needed to
make of Hilo harbor the best harbor
in all America.
The building of this breakwater will
call for an initial outlay on the part
of the successful contractor for plant
and equipment of from $4,000 to S60.-
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