The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-09
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS
WORK ON HARBORS IN HAWAII

and leave it at all hours of the day
and night, instead of by daylight only.
as at present,
July 1, 1910, balance I'M
expended ..............$17 9, 1898
| I.o e, Is OF sales. ........ $50
S17s,1S7.ss
jane 80, 1911, amount expended
lGr ne fiscal year
For v1rks of improve
mn. ......,.. .......S 53,266.7O
/ Tor me ntenance of i'm.
PROV N ent ......... 297.49
59,5641s
July l. 1)11, balance enex-
pcnt I'd .......... ...... 1926, 623.s9
5yly :, 1911, outstanding
Ii b. III IS ............. 32S.95
July 1, 1911, balance avail
able .......... ........ 1925. 294.7s
July /, 1911, amount Gov
cred by uncompleted con-
tracts ........ ........, ll6,S35.5O
Amount (estimated) re-
/ quired to be appropriated
for completion of existing
project ........... ...... 616,S94.6l
| The present project, adopted by
Congress March 1907, provides for
constructing a rubble-mound break
water 1910 feet ng on Blonde Reef
from a point on shore about 5000 feet
east of Cocoanut Island, at an esti-
mated cost of $l,7O0,0OO, as stated in
House Document No. 4O7, Fifty.ninth
1 Congress, second session.
AS authorized in the act of March
%, 1907 the Sproject as originally
stated in the aforementioned House
document has been modified in a
manner recommended on page 16 Of
the document by the elimination Of
the third or shore arm of the break
water and the extension Of the mid
die arm of the breakwater to the
shore.
Amount (estimated) re-
quired to be appropriated
for completion of exist
ing project ............$ $3.50, 100000
Amount required for ex-
penditure in fiscal year
ending June 80, 1913, for
works of improvement. 250,00000
Hilo Harbor.
Respecting Hilo harbor the report
says in part:
For this harbor Congress has ap-
propriated $S50,OOO. and the river and
harbor act of February q, 1911, au-
ithorized continuing contracts for the
further prosecution of the project in
the additional sum of $250,00O.
This act also provided for a resur-
vey of the harbor with a view to de-
termining whether a modification of
the adopted project can be made
which will increase the commercial
facilities of the harbor without in
creasing the original limit of cost of
the work, and report theron will be
Iduly submitted when received.
Pending the submission of the re-
port ordered, the estimate submitted
is confined to the amount which Con-
gress has authorized and which has
not yet been appropriated.
On June 80, 1911, $42l, S49.95 had
been expended on the present project,
no part being for maintenance. Dur
ing the year $3.50 was received from
the sale of maps.
The work of breakwater construc-
ton was continued during the fiscal
year, $500 tons of rock having been
placed in the breakwater. Up to June
80, 1911, a total of 157,494 tons OF
rock have been placed in the break
water completing 2,528 feet thereof
and 3l5 feet of substructure in ad
vance of the completed portion. The
lproject is considered to be fourteen
per cent completed, and the protec
ton afforded by the breakwater is be
ginning to be felt in the eastern ex
tremity of the harbor, but it will moi
be noticeable along the portion Of the
harbor front now used for wharf pur
49, poses until much more of the break
ne water shall have been completed.
ne The commerce of this port for thu
8. calendar year 1910 amounted to an
IN. Iproximately 252,S27 short tons, value
nd at over $19,OOO,OOO.
adj Work on this Improvement has no
rs been carried far enough to have an
In effect on freight rates
te The additional work proposed
nd necessary to make the breakwater Q