Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-04
Contractor Geo.. Marshall Has
Wonderfully Efficient Plant
Erected at Waipio
Especial star.BulIetin corresnondenee,

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HlLO, Oct. Ives, sir, ifsI. can Z
the rest Of the contract to compile
the Hflo breakwater right out to d
bell buoy, or at least $500, 0GO worth
that contract to work on, | will d
plfcate much of my Waipio plant an
begin to send in.1000 tons of rock eas
and every day of the year. won
complete the breakwater in far ie
time than ii would take another co
tractor, without my quarry, to e
really going on the job"
II That is the statement made by Co
81 tractor George Marshall.
III The extent of the wonderful paaf
near Waipio gulch is not known I
Amany people, most of whom imagin
he QUARRY is a small AFFAIR an
temporary kbrealswater col
= ~ a. ere is a small thing ais,
breakwater is Just twie
s :. SoI II toss.hhee HiIo bay sBreakwate
iuts out into the dded OF rocks that 4
as to absolutely protegn 70 tons. Tn
from which the rocks yea with COZ
the scows. The ocean " thorough
| used to swing around the aofRKWate
dash upon the ipebbiy beach now IVA
1.-THE breakwater at a slant and are senr
Ion In another direction. The wharf Is
safe and sound in the lea OF the break
water and work goes on with the
greatest OF ease.
The wharf carries IA double track
railroad. and from It the huge rocks
THAT come down the gravity railroad
and along the other track under the
TOW of q locomotive are lifted by
VERY powerful crane and placed on the
lscows.
Rock is constantly coming down the
tracks. and before it is allowed to
lreach the wharf every carload Is
lWeighed. ION Saturday last two cars
Eafffyed at the wharf containing no less
than 1900 pounds Of rock. One Of
the rocks on the car weighed Is tons.
There are thousands of these weighty
lrocks being loaded on the eeows, and
there are thousands In sight all the
time:
Especial seoWs. q
The scoWs are different from any
other such punts as they are decked
lin all over. The rock lis not placed
inside the scows but on the deck.
81 Some of the scows are loaded until
They have only two feet free board !
when the tug Printer takes hold of
them for the tow to Hilo. q
! The object of the gscOws being
4 decked Is TO safeguard against swamp.
I ling and loss of scows and load Even
lff the weather became so bad as to
cause the sea to tip the seows, the
loniy loss would be the deck load 81
/ stone. The rocks would be tipped of
Into the ocean and the scow would i'm
mediate right herself. h. ,,t
The contractor has three scows IN
commission and there Is always one
!. LOT them underway, while at the Hile
III end and the Waipio end, there is al
1 ways one scow being loaded or t1n
/ loaded. A fourth scow conveys rocl
| from the old Waiakea quarry, but the
stones are smaller than those which
come, from Waipio.
Unlimited Rock. &
At Waipio there is rock sufficient h
I build 10 breakwaters of the size o.
the Hilo structure. The high blum:
are one mass Of rocks and at theil
bases lie thousands of tons of the Ferl
| kind Of rock needed for the big fed
eral job. For thousands Of years rockl
have been, falling from the cliffs ana
!. rolling to the waters edge. These ar,
!, all being gathered in by Contracts
+ i Marshall, and they will all eventual.
find their way to the Hilo breakWate
i site. - > s.ts- :;
i Giant powder does most Of the worl
at the Waipio quarry. and go men o
Halmost all nationalities Fare hard a
i lwork every day. The drills are hear
J Ibuzzing on every side, and as the hug
lderricks reach out with hooks AM
{ lshoyels to grasp the rocks the seen
i Is somewhat ike that at Panama be
fore the water was turned into the bi
i lIiitch. ga D.. .r:f,-~.. ( .
HWonderful Tracks. II. . .....:s1 !
III From the waters edge where tn
breakwater and wharf are the railroa
) TRACKS run up into the face of tn
lcliffs. One track rWends its way alon
81 what years ago was considered to
/ the trail to Wafpie.s !
iii From this upper track huge rock
are obtained, and as each blast of 6
ant powder brings down hundreds 6
tons of the stones, the giant shovel
and hooks lift the monsters and plac
!! them on the cars upon which they ar
taken to the top of very steep grad
down which they are lowered by
cable railroad to the wharf.
III Then, 300 feet below the. cliff raj
| road, and almost at sea level, anothe
II railroad wends its way along the Low
Her blaff and continues its course Il
tEf6e0 feet. Here, too, is huge detrie
installed on a travelling platform an
= here, too, the locomotive Is kept bus
II conveying full and empty trucks
Hand from the wharf The rocks alon
1.-THE coast line are enormous and the
I can be picked up with ease and ral
fdlty, =
Both the railroads are being extent
! ed every day and they are maxim
their way along the cliffs and seashoI
i in the direction of the Kukuihae1
landing.
Safety First Is Motto.
Throughout the big camp" are 4
be seen signs of foresight on theS pa
of the contractor. Nothing has bee