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‘Steel in Floor System. The delivery of the structural steel for the
floor was completed with the delivery, in July 1915, of 5,680-tons of steel. .
The setting of 210 steel pedestals to receive the floor system was completed

on September 20, 1915.

The erection of the structural steel of the floor system was started by
the American Bridge Company on July 24, 1915, and the erection of the —
total weight of 11,447,991 pounds was completed on October 28, 1915. —
The riveting of the steel work was completed on November 238, 1915.

The contract price for the fabrication, delivery, and erection of the floor
steel was $0.0227 per pound, and the total cost of the steel floor system in —
place, including the cost of work performed by this division and by other di-
visions, was approximately $280,872.61. This figure includes the cost ot
pedestals, cross ties; bumping posts, gratings, pipe, mooring, bitts, and
miscellaneous material for the fender system. |

Reinforced Concrete in Floor System. ‘The pouring of 16,600 cubic
yards of concrete in the floor system was started on October 14, 1915, and

completed on January 31, 1916; 591,070 square feet of forms, and 947, 970

pounds of reinforcing rods being used.
By using forms which closely followed the shape of the sections of the
steel girders, providing an average thickness of about three inches of concrete

over the steel, it is estimated that 4,900 cubic yards of concrete were saved.
Floor System, Miscellaneous. A contract for 113,888 board feet of

creosoted timber, and 41,025 iineal feet of creosoted piling for the fender

system was awarded the J. G. Rainwater Lumber Company of New Orleans
in October, 1915, for $35,937.41. Due to the contractor’s inability to

comply with the specifications, however, a large part of the lumber and
pilimg required for the fender system was secured by purchase in open —
market.

| The delivery of the lumber and piling was completed j in January, 1916, _
and the work of installing the fender system was completed in April, 1916.

The contract for furnishing and delivering 1,500,000 paving brick for

the floor of Pier No. 7 was awarded the Murphysboro Paving Brick Com- —_
pany in September, 1915, for $58,260.00. ‘The delivery of the Paving § —
brick started in November, 1915, and was completed in June, 1916. The

work of laying the paving brick is approximately 20 per cent; complete. __
Six depot scales, each of ten ton capacity, were furnished by the Manning, —
Maxwell and Moore Company for $316.00.
Plans for the water and electrical piping were prepared by the Municipal

and Electrical Divisions, respectively, and the work of stalling the systems ~ |
is ‘progressing with the other construction work on the pier.

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Shed. The contract for the fabrication and delivery of 4,401,046 pounds
of structural steel for the shed of Pier No. 7 was awarded t0 Milliken
Brothers in July, 1915, at a unit price of $0.02309, making a total cost of

$101,620.16. The erection of the steel shed was started on January 12,
, 1916, but was stopped a few days later on account of the non-arrival of
material when expected. Due to shipping conditions it was not until —

March 28th that sufficient structural steel had been delivered to warrant re-
commencing the erection of the shed. ‘The erection of the shed steel is
being performed by the forces of the Panama Canal at an estimated cost of
o/.00 per ton, and is now 95 per cent. complete.
The handrailing for the shed was furnished by the Riter-Conley Manu-
facturing Company for $0.0665 per pound, which, for 17,254 pounds,

amounts to $1,147.39. The downspouts were furnished by the Pennsylvania
Steel — for $0.065 Be pound, which, for 34,564.2 pounds, Emi at bs