The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-01
WHARF CONTRACT
At LAST APT R0vED
Finance Committee Endorses
Award for Concrete Work on
River Project.
LEDGEs ARE TO BE REMOVED
Engineer Estimates Cost OF Pre-
linlinary Work to Be
S5,45I.

After discussing the various plans
for erecting public wharf on James
River the Council Committee on
Finance last night recommended TO the
Council the approval OF the award OF
contract made by the Committee on
James River Improvement TO the Ray
mond Concrete Pile Company for crcc-
ton Of a, concrete wharf and bulk head
for sSS.IS0. The concrete piles arc not
to be laid until certain rock Lodges
have been taken from the river, al an
estimated cost Of s5,45l.
The Finance Committee will provide
in the forthcoming annual budget
funds both for the wharf as specified
in the contract, and for the removal
Of the rock, in accordan nee with the bid
OF the p. Sanford Ross Company; OF
Jersey City.
Cost Of Dredging.
The matter has been before the
Finance Committee for several weeks
At former meeting it was brought
to the attention OF the committee tina t
in front OF the proposed location on
the river there was a ledge OF solid
rock which might prove expensive TO
remove. City Engineer Boiling was
instructed 10 survey the amount of
rock and loose material and get es-
Inmates on the cost of its removal. 1t
had been expected from the beginning
that whatever soft material and loose
rock was in the bed OF the river in
!, front OF the proposed wharf could he
drelged out by the city tug and its
equipment.
Mr. Boiling reported last night that
excavation in front of the wharf To
n uniform depth of eighteen feet below
low tide, the present depth OF the gov
crnment channel turning basin and
harbor. would require the removal OF
'',9fb CUBIC yards of earth, clay sand
and loose rock, for which tho bid Of
the Ross Company was 70 cents /, ward
making S2.o59.50 if the work were put
out to contract; and iIi cubic yards Or
solid rock a s1l50. costing S5.i51,
making a total for excavation nc Sc
iI0.5O.
May Gu. Channel Deeper.
Were the bottom in front Of the
wharf cut down to what the govern
ment proposes as the ultimate dept II
for the Richmond harbor. twenty-twn
feet al low tide, ii would require the
removal Of 6.9ol cubic yards Of earth,
sand md loose rock amounting TO
s3,1So.5. ana i.7Si cubic yards Of solid
rock, at $1.50. amounting 10 S20,5l6.
making total of S25.69625 The com
mitee decided that ii was not ncccs-
81 y ~ iHiS tlIle 10 cNcaNatc to tho
ultimate depth, since there was no as
sursncc when the government would
deepen The channel. and meanwhile,
were the bottom beside the wharf to
be cut below the channel, 1t would inev-
ltably I'LL up at the frs. frcshet
City Owns Water Front.
Tho matter OF building a public
wharf on James River has been before
the City Council in one form or another
Tor more than Il ycar-in fact, ever
since the city acquired Il tract Of prop
erty along the water front from tile
mouth Of Gilic's Creek to the foot OF
Nicholson Street. Fulton. On this strip
OF land the city drcdgc has been dump
Ing mud and sand removed from the
harbor. With the ultimate, plan OF
building n highway TO Fulton above
high water.
The southern Railway Company has
begun this week tho tearing away OF an
old trestlo which crosses Water and
Continued on Third PaGs.)