Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-27
CITY MAY DO
ITS OWN ROAD
REPAIR WORK
Reopening OF Rock QuarrleS at
MoIliiII to BE Considered IN
View of 1918 Program


As Part OF IT," pr' nira@ous '"r -.
huge program O. road .mldinc road
repair ands rU;d mal"'"nan.r 20 90"
undertaken by the boa. Of sLlsfrNl'.
Urs in the city and Cua.ty o: Hon
Iulu with the LrgiLrH. 81 'cAt lt"F
the uuniclpal rock quaTr."s a. %'r
Iuli closed in Starch, jHI@, may aGd'"
he rcopcnoI nIIn E'"" 10 CHttIn-
down the cost OF Obtaining tI5 u"ccS
nary material foi the WON. En2i-
nccr George VI. Collins IL preparing
a report TO be presented 20 lie bOalG
Of supurHisOrs meeting on Friday
evening in regard 10 the IcaslDiIl'!
Of reOnening the uuarrieSa
At present the city is JuyiMg Ou,
night what rock il ne DIS tor road
repairs and will continue this until
the close Of the year at least. When
the road program comes UP. the gus
ton of whether the city and county
should do its own road building or
have it done by contractors Will br
discussed.
If it Is decided that the city aud
county SHAH do It's own wOrk as lar
as rebuilding is concerned, the Clty
quarrIes Will undoubtedly be OLene..
up. How ever. even II the city anu
county resolves to continue tie pres
ent system an effort may be mdu2
to procure the necessary right lOl
the city and county TO sell roCK from
its QuarrleS TO the contractors on lnu-
nIcipal WORK. To OBTAIN this right
The territorial legislature would Lave
10 grant special permission and 1t
is doubtful whether this could be
done.
1t is argued that, with A. S. Can
tin in charge, the road building WORK
would be in the hands OF man WHO
could meet contractors Oh their own
grounds and who, because of his
knowledge of the ms and outs OF con-
tracing, could be certain that all work
done is according TO specifications
from all angles. Then again if the
city did its own road WORK, Mr.. Can
tin, it is argued, would be just the
man to cut down the cost OF obtain
ing raw materials such as rock, to the
last cent and could easily handle the
work connected with operating a city
quarry because Of his experience in
Netting out raw materials on cOntrat-t-
Ing work in the past.
Quarries Are Leased
The municipal quarries are on land
leased from the John Ena estate and
have not been operated since March,
1916, when the city and county de-
cided to have its road work done by
contract.
! The cost of reopening the quarries
and the feasibility OF operating a
rock crushing plant on the spot will be
thoroughly dealt with in Engineer Col
Inns report which is now under pre-.
paration.
There are a number of things !
want to clear up before leave office,
said Mr.. Collins this morning, but
the rest of them / want to leave in
their present state so that my success
sor can take them up or drop them
as he wishes.
In fact, expected him to drop in
today and go over the ground a little
because will not be able to stay over
next week. / start out for the island
of Hawaii next Tuesday on my new
work with the Bishop estate.
The projects which l would like
TO explain to him are the Punchbowl
street improvement, the BereIania
street to Lusitana street work, the
Beretania street widening between
Fort street and Nuuanu street and
the Beretania street improvement
from Punahou to King street, Moiliili
''If the supervisors bring everything
together under this office for the new
engineer he will have plenty of work
70 do. But at any rate wish him the
best Of luck and hope he makes a
good showing"