Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...of the conduit at maximum estimated flow, the head in the tunnel will be greater than the head on the rock water, until working shaft No. S is reached, and n0 inflow of the rock water can take place. The two cast iron nozzles and mouth pieces at Shaft No. 11 Weigh nearly 60,000 pounds; the nozzle and mouth Dimes at Shaft No. 1 weigh nearly 27,000 pounds. Each end shaft is constructed of a steel shell down to the rock, the lower end of the shells being sealed with cement grout in the rock. Inside the steel shell is placed a brick lining 18 inches thick. At. the south end of the work much heavy timbering to prevent dangerous falls was required, and in some few instances the sets were not removed in lining the tunnel, but all loose timber, packing and poling boards were drawn as the packing over the arch progressed at such places This contract is now 95 per cent. completed. Face of contract..................... $1,274,000 00 Additions to date.................... 51,799 98 Total........................ $1,325,799 9%; Limit of contract.................... 1,350,000 00 Payments to date.................... 1,194,304 08 CONTRACT No. 5, TEST Bonuses (Tonnnsmu: Counur'r). Flaghouse & Beeson, Contractors. This contract embraced the sinking of test holes in the drift and diamond drill borings in the rock on the projected line of the Torresdale conduit, in order to determine the quality of the materials through which the shafts and tunnel would have to be driven, and incidentally to arrive at the probable amount of water which would be 811001111' tered in the excavation of the work. Twenty of these hole'5 were sunk along the line of the work, and the diamond drill borings carried into the rock to depths from 100 130 135 feet below the...