20 PANAMA RAIL ROAD COMPANY.

Contract drawings for shed steel were completed and requisition placed
for this material on May 21, 1915. The bids for supplying of this material,
approximately 4,320,000 pounds, were advertised to be opened on July 12,
1915. |

In the construction of this dock, two section rising and swinging type
doors will be used instead of rolling slat doors similar to those on other
piers. Itis believed that the swinging type is more substantial and durable
_and requisition was placed for eighty-two of these doors and forty swinging

columns. On account of the wide door opening, (forty feet,) a swinging

up post was fitted, thus dividing the opening into two parts, yet capable
of being raised when necessary.

Bids for supplying approximately 163,700 square feet of cement tiling
for the roof of shed were opened in Washington on May 28, 1915. Only —
one bid was received and on account of same being unsatisfactory ib was
rejected and same will be readvertised.

Contract drawings were prepared for copper louvres and glazed window
_ sash for pier shed, and requisitions placed as fone: Louvres on June 10,
1915, and glazed sash on June 14, 1915.

The false work trestles, on the site of the pier were completed ; in the
month of February, 1915.

The first steel cylinders were set in the latter part of September, 1914,
and at the close of work on June 30, 1915, 20,225 lineal feet or 88% of the
- total required, were in place.

Excavation in cylinders was started in the latter part of October and
at the close of work on June 30, 1915, 12,096.7 cubic yards oe been
removed, or 82% of the total amount to be excavated.

During the year seventy-three per cent. of the total concrete required
in cylinders, amounting to approximately 17,118 cubic yards, was in place.

One hundred and sixty-one, or 75%, of the steel cylinders were com-
pleted and ready for setting of pedestals, this includes cylinder A-24, which
was later broken off by the Tug ‘‘Tavernilla.” Thirty-nine, or 18%, of
the pedestals were in place at the close of the fiscal year.

At the close of the fiscak year Pier No. 7 was approximately forty per

cent. complete.
ee Pier No. 8.

Balance of work on this pier which consisted of a few minor details
was completed. For detailed cost statement see page 26, Annual Report
et 1914,

Pier No. 9.

_ All work on Pier No. 9 was completed on August 1, 1914, and pier has
_ Qeen in service since-that date. The work of finishing up consisted of a
few minor details which does not affect the cost statement shown on page
26 of the’ Annual Report of 1914.

Pier No. 10.

| During the fiscal year the work on this pier consisted of laying two |
thousand nine hundred square yards of brick pavement, placing of one
hundred and twenty-nine cubic yards of concrete truss protection, the

~ erection of steel rolling doors, cleaning up piers and ‘driving of fender

piles. All of the above work with the exception of fender piles was com-
pleted on September 30, 1914, and pier placed in service. ‘The dying of
fender piles was completed on March 10, 1915. os