Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the Fiscal Year Ending ..., Volume 1State Engineer and Surveyor, 1919 |
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1918 Terminal contract 50 per day Albany amendatory laws amount paid approved April area graded assistant engineer Junior Asst BARGE CANAL TERMINAL Boatman bridge Canal Board Champlain canal chapter 181 charge coffer-dam compensation Services Travel completed concrete Construction of Barge Construction work began contract price contractor's bid crane creek dockwall east Eastern engineer Junior assistant engineer's preliminary estimate Engr Erie canal excavation extra work order feet final account finished Gage reader Genesee river guard-lock Incidental Expenses increases the contract installed July June 30 Junior assistant engineer Laborer 2 50 Little Falls modified by alteration Mohawk river NAME Rank Rate navigation old canal order dated Oswego Oswego canal Oswego river paid on extra pier price as modified prism railroad Rate of compensation removed residency riprap Rochester Schenectady Senior Services Travel Total steel sheet-piling Stenographer Superintendent of Public Tonawanda Tonawanda creek total to date wall warehouses
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Page 220 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 216 - Contract No. 63-A This contract is for completing the construction of the canal from the west line of Wayne county to the east end of contract No. 23-A at King's Bend. Length, 12.22 miles. It was awarded to the State Highway Construction Company, being signed on February 23, 1916.
Page 37 - An act to provide for establishing a portion of the north boundary lino of the county of Ulster, and being a portion of the south boundary line of the county of Greene and known as the north boundary line of Great Lot number eight, Hardenburgh patent, and making an appropriation therefor...
Page 168 - Terminal Contract No. 20 — Syracuse This contract is for constructing a terminal basin with a connecting channel to Onondaga lake, also piers, dockwalls, spillway and a highway bridge at Syracuse. It was awarded to the Walsh Construction Co., Inc., being signed on November 4, 1915. Construction work began in same month. The engineer's preliminary estimate was $665,875.00, the contractor's bid, $419,659.00.
Page 168 - Terminal Contract No. 30 — Oswego, River Terminal This contract is for constructing a dockwall, an approach to the terminal and appertaining structures on the east side of the Oswego river between Schuyler and Cayuga streets, Oswego. It was awarded to Henry P. Burgard, being signed on March 24, 1916. Construction work began in April, 1916. The engineer's preliminary e.-timate was $103,700.00, the contractor's bid, $90,984.00.
Page 21 - ... only by such development. Nitrogen, so necessary to the farmer, now costs him thirty-five cents a pound in nitrate of soda, while in Norway nitrogen is produced by hydro-electric power at a cost of seven cents a pound. Under the present laws, the State is prohibited from disposing of any surplus waters created by the canal improvement. The surplus power created incidentally by the construction of the canal is now being wasted. The increasing cost of maintaining our State government is a continuing...
Page 157 - Company & Locher, being signed on February 24, 1913. Construction work began March 13, 1913. The engineer's preliminary estimate was $1,033,037.85, the contractor's bid, '$1,014,671.83. The contract price as modified by alterations Nos. 1 and 2 is $1,239,045.03.
Page 76 - Contract No. 74 This contract is for excavating a channel in the Hudson river and the Mohawk river and performing work incidental thereto from Sta. 146 + 65 to Sta. 171 f 90.
Page 162 - This contract is for the construction of two connecting highways, Muck road to James street and Whitesboro street to Mill street, in the city of Rome.
Page 258 - The methods used in making the test:4, and analyses of cements are practically those recommended by the Committee on Cement of 'the American Society for Testing Materials and adopted by that society as standard. A slight variation from that method is that, instead of using a blended sample for tests for tensile strength, we still use our own method of testing each sample separately for tensile strength. This method has long proven very satisfactory; in fact, by means of it, much poor cement has been...