The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-10-20

| Was perfectly familiar with the condl-
tions in and around Leavenworth, had
done some excavating and had seen a
great many bitches opened in and
around the town. l doubt very much
he said, if anyone will take a contract
to open $500 feet of bitches in this
town, two and a half feet deep for less
than 20 cents per running foot. Lay
ing the pipe, driving them together
and filling the bitches will cost from 8
to 10 cents per running foot. Very
little if anything can be saved by EN-
ploying teams at 81 per day in open
ing bitches two feet wide. Street
crossings and rock would interfere too
much in the town, and in narrow ditch
es very little can be saved in any
event.
The cost of opening a ditch two and
half feet deep from the west end OF
town, crossing the river near the
county bridge, running thru the
Cascade orchards and up Icicle canyon
to a point opposite the mouth of Snow
creek and up the bank to an intake
would cost on an average Of As cents
the running foot for opening the ditch.
In many places along this route one
would have to haul dirt to put in the
bitches to lay the pipe on and also
enough to cover the pipe so that rock
would not come in contact with the
wooden pipe. Engineers will not al
low contractor to lay pipe on rock or
to cover it with rock. The vibration
of the pipe will very soon cut holes in
the wood. This has been learned
from experience. I am perfectly fam
iliar with the ground one will have TO go
over and am confident that the figures
have named will never be cut very
much by a contractor who is required
to put up a bond The cheapest kind
of bridge to convey pipe line across
the Icicle river is wire cable bridge.
The anchor holes for bridge to hold
up an 8inch pipe line full of water
will cost more than $3.50 in the vicin-
ity of the mouth of Snow creek. Two
abutments that would be considered
safe by any one familiar with the tor
rents that come down that river in the
spring would cost more than $3.50.
A dam and intake on Snow creek
might be built for $500 but it would
not stand. One that would stand
would have TO be built of concrete and
might have TO be reinforced with steel
rods. 1t would require hydraulic en-
gineer to determine this. You must
remember the water and rock that
comes down Snow creek in the spring
Of the year is something fierce 1t has
the greatest fall Of any stream in this
part of the country. I do not think
that dam that would stand would
cost less than 1000, and might cost
twice that much.
Mr.. T. M. Lewis, civil engineer
employed by Chelan county was here
Tuesday and when shown Mr.. Wolden-
berg's estimate Of the cost of water
supply from Snow creek, with which
stream he said he was tolerably famil-
lar, having done some work in that
vicinity said it was rediculously low.
He asked what kind of settling basin,
screen, gates and house could one build
for $500. He also said that no road
could be built to the vicinity OF the
mouth of Snow creek for $500. An
intake and dam might be built for
$500, but one that could be expected
to stand would cost not less than
$1,000. You will have no trouble in
proving that a supply system of water
from Snow creek for Leavenworth, and
distribution system. can not be built
for $4,000
Three years ago W. R. Prowell, the
civil engineer who built the irrigation
ditch in the Cascade orchards, was en-
ployed by the city of Wenatchee to
make survey and estimate Of the
cost of pipe line from Snow creek to
Wenatchee. That estimate is still on
file in Wenatchee and shows Mr..
Prowell's estimate to closely approx
mate half million dollors.
Two men living right here now who
have worked on the bitches opened by
the Tumwater Light and Water com