The Cairo bulletin., 1913-09-13
Steel Sheet Piing Most Important
Part of Whole Project and Also
Most Effective.
BEEHIVE OF ACTIVITY
Hundreds Of Men at Work on Outer
Works Bring in Hundreds of Dol
lars to Local Merchants.

The Walsh Construction company
Is to begin next week the construct
ing OF the stone retaining wall
along the Ohio leyee, which will ex-
tend from a point near the Halliday
elevator on the south to the Cairo
elevator on the north. This is in
conjunction with the raising and
strengthening of the entire levee
front from it's intersection on the
south with the Mississippi levee to
its junction with the Big Four at
the Illinois Central steel bridge This
work win be done under the super
vision OF the state OF Illinois. s2a0
900 having been appropriated for
this purpose.
| Ohio Levee Side.
Tho specifications cali for A..
goo cubic yards OF earth enlarge
ment; 15.o00 square yards Of slope
paving; 10000 cubic yards of eN-
cavation; II 400 cubic yards OF re-
inforced concrete; steel sheet piling
Il feet long; 4470 linear feet OF
wall; steel sheet piling 90 feet long;
lA60 linear feet of wall.
Tho Improvement provides for
steel sheet piling for much at the
distance. especially from Eighth
10 Fourteenth street where piling 20
feet long will be used, This piling
will be driven at the base of the
present stone wall and upon this the
cement wall will be built. which
win be carried up on the outside OF
the present wall. anchored to it at
intervals and brought up to a height
OF about four feet higher than the
present wall on the leyee front or
TO so foot grade on the Cairo
gauge.
Some 100 men Will be working
by neNt week on the Ohio leyee. and
fun two thirds Of these will be en-
gagged in the stone wall construction.
Forty expert concrete workers have
been brought here by the Walsh
company and these with the super.
intendents and others will total a
large list OF we'll paid employees.
Two Browning hoist cranes have
arrived as we'll MS tour concrete
m%ing machines and these will bear
the bulk of the stone retaining wall
building.
The Walsh Construction company
! which is one OF the largest OF it's
kind in the country. win, when the
/ Ohio leyee work Is in fun sway have
some 700 men employed in this
! vicinity Besides having the con-
tract for the Big Four work in the
! Drainage District, they also have the
Cache leyee project part of the
/ Mound City work, the Ohio leyee
! work in Cairo and the work on the
Mobile and Ohio embaukmeuts.
which they have sublet to List and
Garford. another extensive con-
/ tracing irm
Besides the steam shovels and the
dump cars that make the dirt Az,
/ the contractors have a great force
Of men and teams at work hauling
| and scraping dirt. These laborers,
both white men and negroes, dwell
in camps or box car accommoda-
tions furnished them in the levee
district In many Instances, the
feeding and caring for them. has
been turned over to private indi-
viduals who take charge OF the
camps
Mississippi Levee Work.
/ The Fred r. Jones Construction
company that has the contract from
the United states government for
tho Mississippi levee work expects
to start the job and have il we'll un-
der way next week. The work here
is similar TO that going on in the
| Drainage District as the embank
| ment is to be. raised and widened.
| However, it will be so feet instead
| fConcluded on Sixth Page.)