Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1913-01-24
ESTIMATE MADE ON FIRST UNIT
OF CONSTRUCTION.
$3.50, 1852 TO HAYS HILL
Figure Includes Road Built and Fully
Equipped for Fifteen Miles
From Grants Pass.

Figured down to the last yard of
earth to be moved and the driving of
the last spike the first unit of the Pa
cific-lnterior railway, the 10 miles to
Hays Hills, will cost exactly $780,
1852.
The amount given above includes
every possible item of expense that
can enter into the construction and
the equipment of this line, the por-
tion that is to represent the Grants
Pass-owned road. The engineers
have been working for days upon the
details of cost, and every culvert and
cattle-guard has been built on paper,
and fence erected along each side
of the right-of-way, while equipment
including engines, fiat and box cars,
coaches, handcars and a railway We
locipede have been provided for in
the items of cost.
No Engineering Problems.
This first unit contains no engi-
neering problems that will run into
big money. There are no deep cuts
and no great fills, and the average
cost per mile, including equipment,
is $15,944.5S.
There is not a yard of rock work
encountered for the first seven miles.
In the eighth mile there is a total of
5,145 yards of rock excavation, with
only 10,415 yards in the entire dis
tance. The cost of this excavation is
placed at 81 per yard. The heaviest
cut on the fifteen miles occurs at the
sixth mile, where $500 cubic yards
are moved, and the greatest fill is on
the seventh mile, where 1880 yards
are put in. The handling of this
earth is figured at 25 cents per yard.
1t will require 114,20O feet of tim
bers and two tons of iron to make the
trestles on the fifteenth mile, the
trestles on the entire unit demanding
2S6,15 feet of timber and five tons
of iron. Lumber for culverts will
cost $1,196. Thirty-eight cattle
guards at a cost of $40 each. will be
installed. The total cost for the
grading, bridging, ETC., of the Is
miles to Hays Hill will be $109,-
901.S0.
1920 Ties Required.
The 70-pound rails at s42 per ton
will cost s5,174.4O per mile, or sS2,-
790.40 for the Is miles. The 2,240
ties required will cost 40 cents each,
or $16,S96 in the aggregate. The
spikes used will fill 512 kegs and the
bolts another 112 kegs, the cost of
track and siding, 16 miles in all, fig
uring $111,231.04.
Engines and Equipment.
For equipment, two engines will
cost $4,000, and 10 fat cars, five box
cars, one combination coach, one day
coach, two hand cars, two push cars,
a velocipede, and tools will run the
equipment expense up to s13,690.
A depot at Grants Pass will cost
$1,000 and two other depots out on
the line will cost s400 each. Two
section houses are provided at $500
each, and with engine sheds, tool
houses, tanks, turn table, track
scales, telegraph line. engineering
etc, this feature of the construction
will amount to s2O,290.4S.
All of these various items that en-
ter into the building and equipment
of the road to Hays Hill total $3.50
1882. but in addition to this there
is the cost Of the 26 acres of terminal
in this city and the right-of-way and
survey all of the way to Crescen'
City that have been purchased at
cost OF $4,000, that will run the
grand total of all expense to the city
to s290,113.32.
Two Truss Span Bridge.
The estimates above include the
cost of two truss span bridges, one oi
200 feet where the road crosses the