The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-01-26
SUFFICIENT FUNDS AVAILABLE
FOR HILO HARBOR IMPROVEMENT
Nearly Half Million Dollars Are On
Hand Which Covers Contracts

Snmeicnt funds are available by the
govcrnment for carrying on the i'm.
provement Of Hilo harbor during the
ascal year ending June 30, 1915, ae.
cordinE to the report Of Major W. p.
Iwootsh, U. 8. A.. npon river and har.
Dor bereavement work in the district
Of Hawaii A portion Of this report,
towering the work done under the direc.
tion Of Major wooten in Honolulu har.
Dor was published yesterday morning.
Thus far, according to the report,
congress has appropriated $l,176,OOO
for improving Hilo harbor. On July !,
1914, the amount nhexpcnded and avail.
able to continue the work was $453,-
sog.ss, Of which $4si,U7s.7s Is covered
by uneompleted contracts. Major
Mooten estimates that 1924, 900 in al.
,dition will be required to carry the Hilo
harbor project to completion. His re-
port on the Iiilo harbor work follows:
Describes Work AZ Hilo-
''The Island Of Hawaii is the largest
and most southerly Of the Hawaiian
Group. Hilo Bay Is on the east side of
the island, about 200 miles southeast
from Honolulu, the commercial center Of
the Hawaiian Group. &
The harbor is practically an open
roadstead, exposed through the angle
from about north to n. "a deg. f.,
which angle is slightly protected from
n. "a deg. +, 70 N "A deg. T.. by Blonde
Reef, over which there is an average
depth of % feet. Knhio Bay extends
into this reef, and has an area Of '53.5
acres with minimum depth Of 32.1
feet IT mean lower low tide. The mean
tidal range is 90 feet. This bay will
be entirely protected by the breakwater,
and Is somewhat protected by the pres
ent completed portion Of the break
water. II Is believed that this hay will
be the main shipping point Of the har-
Dor. A large anchorage basin Of deep
water at the entrance to Kuhio Bay
viii also receive protection from the
break water
The original project, adopted by
congress March ., 1907, provides for
constructing fubblc-moand break
water 1910 feet long on Blonde Reef
from point on shore about 5000 feet
east Of Coeoanut Island, at an estimated
cost Of 81 100000, as stated in house
documont No. 4o1, Fifty.ninth Congress,
second session g 4
"As authorized in the act of March
y, 1907, the project as originally ;ated
in the above mentioned house document
has been modified in manner recon.
Tncndcd on page 16 of the document by
the elimination Of the third or shore
arm of the breakwater and the exten.
sion Of the middle arm Of the break.
VISITOR TO tho shore.
title river and haPbor act Of July
20, 1919, again, modified the project az
Published in house document No. 417,I
Sixty second Congress, second session,
50 as TO provide for dredging to a
depth of thirty-five feet the entrance
to Kulio Bay, at ansestimated cost Of
csc, 600, and for continuing the break.
water along The approved lines as far
as can be done without increasing the
original limit Of cost of the work. For
this harbor congress has appropriated
ISL, 176,O0O. III ~ {gG
i'on June 80, 1914, $722,l13.62 had
been expended on the present project,
no part being for maintenance.
Hilo Breakwater
The first contract for the Hilo
breakwater was let, June 20, 1908, aud
completed December "a, 1910; 14S,200I
tons of rock were placed, completing
252S feet of the ,breakwater. The see
ond contract was let November rs, 1910,
and completed, June %, 1912; 97,577
tons of rock were placed in substitute
ture 24S6 feet in advance of the com
pleted portion. The third contract, FOR
constructing superstrueture on the
sIbstructure built under the second con
tract was let October 16, 1911.
During the fiscal year 1913, 500
tons of rock was placed, and during the
fiscal year 1914, 1905 tons, at con.
tract cost of SAL 1880, making a total
of 1875 tons placed under this con
tract. The contractor was declared
bankrupt February 2, l9l4, and the con
tract was annulled April z, 1914. "A
new contract was entered into April
30, 1914, for the completion Of the un
completed portion of the annulled con
tract. No work has been done under
this new contract. Fl s5,, A
"a contract was made July 20, 1913,
for dredging the shoals at the entrance
TO Kuhio Bay. The work was com !
pleted on June %, 1914. APPROX
mately l2l ,430 cubic yards were re-
moved; the exact yardage has not been
computed.
+" The project is abspt 43per cent com,
pleted. During the year the territorial
government completed wharf at the
head of Kuhio Bay in the Ice of the
completed portion Of the breakwater,