Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-27
CITY MAY Do
own ROAD
REPAIR WORK
Reopenlng Of Rock QuarrIeS al
MoiIiiIi to Be Considered in
View of 1918 Program

As part Of the preparations for the
huge program OF road building, road
repair and road maintenance 70 ne
undertaken by the board OF superv!s-
0rs in the city and county OF Hon0'
lulu with the beginning OF next year
the municipal rock quarr!Cs at MOL
lIlli closed in March, 1916, may AGAIN
he reopencd with d vie" 70 cutting
down the cost OF obtaining this neces.
sary material for the work. En2i'
neer George NJ. Collins Is preparing
q report to be presented TO the boarC
Of supervisors meeting on Friday
evening in regard TO the feasibility
OF reopening the quarries.
At present the city is buying out,
right what rock 1t needs for road
repairs and will continue this until
the close OF the year at least. When
the road program comes up, the queS-
ton Of whether the city and county
should do It's own road building or
have it done by contractors VIII "
discussed.
If it is decided that the city auu
county shall 90 Its own WORK as I~F
as rebuilding IS concerned, the CIty
quarrles VIII undoubtedly be oEeneu
up. However, even II the city anu
county resolves to continue TIE pres
ent system an effort may ne mace
TO procure the necessary right IOi
the city and county TO sell rGcK from
its QuarrIeS to the contractors on nIu-
nIcipal work. TO obtain THIS rlgnt
the territorial legislature would nave
TO 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 a man VINO
could meet contractors on their own
grounds and who, because Of nlE
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 city
quarry because of his experience in
Netting out raw materials on contract
ing work in the past.
puarries 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. ~s
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, l expected him to drop in
today and go over the ground little
because will not be able to stay over
next week. l start out for the island
of Hawaii next Tuesday on my new
work with the Bishop estate.
The projects which / would like
to explain to him are the Punchbowl
street Improvement, the Beretania
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, Moiliih.
IF the supervisors bring everything
together under this office for the new
engineer he will have plenty of work
to do. But at any rate wish him the
best of luck and hope he makes a
good showing" IT,. ..-=