The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-26
road BUILDING IN
(. kauai IS RUSHING
Contract Work Going Ahead in
= Fine Style Under County
Engineer.

The Kauai loan fund commission and
j. H. Moragne, the county engineer OF
Kauai, are setting pace in road build
ing with an energy which shows re-
suits. Kauai has always had a repu.
tation for its good roads, and it is no
ticeable that they are all being built
under contract, plus the supervision Of
the official engineer
Under the present plans for belt
roads and other improvements in Kauai
it appears that some of the work is
already nearly completed and much of
the rest is under way, while arrange
ments have been made to 90 ahead with
what remains to be done in most
practical manner, with regular reports
from the county engineer to the com
missioners.
The latest of these reports made by
Engineer Moragne, dated September 9,
is in part as follows, and indicates
what can be done under business
method of accomplishing what the tax
payers are paying for:
New Grade Hanalei Hill and Koloa.
Laval Grade: Bids were called for
August IL for constructing section 9,
1900 feet of the new Hanalei Hill
grade and section /, $500 feet of the
Koloa-Lawai new grade. On August
IL bids on the above two Jobs were
opened. The contract for Hanalei work
WIS let toe. w. Mahikoa, who started
work on his contract on August 81. The
contract for Koloa-Lawai work was let
to p. Fitzgibbons, who started on the
work on September a.
= Good progress is being made on
Hanalei. Hill. ,
! 90 Hanapepe Bridge: Bids were called
Tor, September 6 for p concrete bridge
at Hanapepe and on account Of the
prospective bidders requesting more
time in which to prepare their bids,
the time for opening the bids was ex-
tended to September 20.
Bids Hanalei Bridge: Bids for a
new steel bridge for the Hanalei stream
were called for September 8.
9nS Contract j. M. Silva, at Makaweli.
$500. / let contract fer, filing in and
tunneling at the small bridge near Ma
kaweli for $500, which work is mostly
completed except the tunnel, which is
under way.
Bridge Kilauea' and Mahinauli. /
am, preparing plans for the proposed
concrete bridge at Kilauea also for the
Mahinauli culvert. suggest that the
contract for Mahinauli culvert be lei
privately, as the cost will be less than
$1,000.
:" Change macadam road. Hanapepe
| examined into the proposed change
of the macadam road near Hanapept
/ towards Makaweli, where the road goes
around the point mp the hill and found
the cost would be considerable Al
though the improvement would be a
good one, I do not recommend the ex
penditure at present but instead would
suggest that the county cut little
around the point on the present road.
! "Hanalei-Haena road. I looked into
the matter of improving the Hanalei
Haena road and found that this road
can be greatly improved by small ex
penditures at places. Some of the
| points could be cut off and the road
Strengthened for less than $1,000 and all
such word would be in line with perma
nent improvements of the whole road
The narrow place on pail. Just on tn,
Haena side of Wainiha bridge could b,
permanently improved by changing tn,
irrigation tunnel for about $50 feet ant
blasting the road into the pail