The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-06-25
MILLIONS GOING
INTO TERRITORY
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turned over 10 the owners Friday. This
was a $4,000 contract.
Total a Million.

Total a Million.
The Lord. Young company have con
tracts in various parts of the Island
| agRregating more than million dol
lars. Some of them have been wiped
Oft the slate. Some of their largest
contracts, including the $4,000 ten.
mile belt road contract at Kikapa
Gulch. have just been started.
Practically every contracting firm in
( the city has heavy contracts to fill, and
the iabor market is kept busy. The Pa
cific Engineering Company has COM
menced the construction of a four story
building on Fort street, opposite the
convent, to cost about 100000 The
company was also recently awarded the
contract to build large reinforced
threestory students dormitory at
Oahu College for $4,000.
4 The Honolulu Planning Mill Company
has been awarded the contract to build
the general hospital at Fort Shafter
for $61,0 900.
Charles Lucas holds a contract to
build the shed for the Queen street
bulkhead wharf for $47 900, and is An
ishing the Richards street. wharf shed
under $4,000 contract.
John VI. Wilson holds a contract of
$4,000 to build the Koolau section of
the belt road. Equipment costing
about 200 has been ordered for the
job.
Contractor Mcdonald is building the
Liliuokalani school for $4,000, TO be
finished this fall He is also huilding
school in Koolau, and DeFries IS
making repairs to another in the same
district.
Still Other Contracts.
The Lord Young company has other
contracts as follows: Reclamation and
filing in Kakaako, $4,000; Califor-
MIA Feed Company building, $4,000;
Queen street wharf substructure, $685.
900; Kamehameha school addition, $17,-
900; sewer plant for Pearl Harbor ma
val reservation, 100000.
The Hawaiian Dredging Company is
engaged on $l25,0OC dredging CON
tract with the war department in Ka-
hului bay; and will also begin work
soon on the dredging of Kuhio bay for
SAT 900 and filing the approach to
the new Hilo wharf, to cost $4,000.
The LordlYoung company will build
The Hawaiian Dredging Company is
also to make the excavation of 200 feet
authorized by congress to leDgthen the
naval drydock to 1000 feet.
The Nuuanu street paving contract
is being carried out by Picanco broth
ers, and it is expected that within a
few months contracts will have .een
awarded for the repaving of Queen
street from Nuuanu street to the liver;
King street from Nuuanu street to
Alakea street; Bishop street, between
Merchant and Queen streets; Kaa.
kaua avenue; Emma street, between
Beretania and Vineyard streets.
Homes Going Up.
The building of homes in the resi-
denee districts is keeping architects
and contractors busy. The Japanese
contractors are particularly busy with
residences. In College Hills anl Maroa
generally about twenty-five new homes
are in course of construction, and in
Kaimuki and adjoining tracts new
houses are spring up like mushrooms.
In the Office of Captain Game of tie
depot quartermaster IS Office, several
bids will be opened for construction
work on Leilehua military reservation
tomorrow morning at ten cto:k "he
work will include the building of
reservoir in the south fork of the
Kaukonahui stream, with u dam sew
enty-one feet high; tunnel, ditch and
pipe line to Schofield Barracks; strctch-
ing of forty-four miles of wire aeornd
the military reservation at Leilehua,
and four and a half miles of WIRE
around Fort Ruger reservation, ard
other work, which may amount to
about 100000.
The army constructing luarterIaas-
tiers are building two permanent can
tonments at Schofeld Barracks by day
labor. This work, now involving sew
eral hundred thousand dollars, VII
total millions when the five or six can
tonments are completed.
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