Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-14
COUNTY TO BUY
TWO QUARRIES
ROCK WILL BE USED ON NEW
HIGHWAYS
SUPERVISORS WILL CONSTRUCT
CRUSHING PLANT
SUGGESTIONS Submitted by Highway
Commission Receive Favorable
Consideration, and Road
Money Will Go Further

recommendations contained in a
communication from the highway coin-
mission for the purchase or quarry ~
catious-one near Pacoima, on the
Southern Pacific, and the other IN san
Dimas canyon-were adopted by tue
board of supervisors, and IL the put
chase is made more than million tons
Of rock required in the good roads
work will be taken from these quar-
ries.
Further recommendations that specl-
6cations be prepared and bids invited
for the installation of complete ROCK
crushing plant, to be operated anu
owned by the county, at one OF the
duarres, preferably that near Pacolma'
and that similar specifications ana pluS
be submitted to contractors VINO VIII
install and operate a plant and secure
railway facilities for the san Dumas
quarry were also adopted.
A recommendation that the quarry
locations and crushing plants be paid
out of the general fund of the county
instead of the good roads fund was
taken under advisement.
A fifth recommendation that Wllllam
Mu1holland. auueduct engineer; Homer
Hamlin, city engineer, and l. B. Noble,
county engineer, act in conjunction
with A. E. Loder, chief engineer of the
highway commission, in an advisory
capacity and in the preparation or
specifications was rejected.
Advisers Not Present
The highway commission and super
visors met in Joint session at the board
room yesterday, no member of the ad-
visory committee being present. f. w.
Blanchard, secretary of the advisory
committee stated that a committee
from that body would meet with the
supervisors when the quarry and ma
chinery bids come up for final dis
cusslon.
The highway commissions recon-
mendations adopted by the board are
as follows
First, that the county purchase the
two quarry locations, upon which OPP
lions have been obtained, one near Pa
Gonna, on the Southern Pacific, ana
the other in San Dmas canyon
Second, that specifications be pre-
pared and bids be invited for the in
stallation of a complete rock crushing
plant, to be owned and operated by the
county, at one of these quarries, pre-
ferably the one near Pacoima, on ac-
count of it's favorable location with re-
gard to the economical distribution of
rock to the various roads in the coun-
ty, the plant to be equipped fully with
up-to-d date appliances and to have a
capacity VI llOL 1888 tlldll ISb tOiio POI
hour under average operating condi-
tions.
Third, that similar specifications be
prepared for the San Dimas canyon
quarry and that bids. be invited from
contractors who will install and oper-
ate a plant and secure railroad facil-
tiles thereto with the Santa Fe main
line, and, If possible, also with the
Southern Pacific and the Los Angeles
interurban lines under a lease from
the county for ten years, the county
to have first call ON the output for the
construction of roads under the bond
issue and for their maintenance; the
lessee to have the privilege of selling
any rock not required by the county tp
outside parties during the term, and to
remove at the expiration of the lease
any machinery and improvements
which he may have placed on the prem
Uses. The bids are to be based on Il
fiat price per ton of crushed rock free
on board of railway cars at the quarry.
Fourth, that specifications be pre-
pared and bids invited from contractors.
for supplying the county with crushed
rock at fiat price per ton and on
railway cars at the contractors quar-
ry, the specifications to provide for a
definite total quantity to be used and
for daily supply as required by the
county, the contract to run until the
new highway system is completed.