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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie06muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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Bee keeping in Cuba. An apiary of an American colonist near Matanzas. See free list of supplies admitted into Cuba, on page 15. Contract Prices on Road Work in Cuba. The road, which was telford-macadam, 9,180 cu. yds. earth excavation four miles long, was situated on the main at 19.5 cts _... $1,790.10 road from Havana (the capital of the 1,021 cu. yds. rock excavation province of the same name) to Batabano at 56 cts 571.76 (the seaport on the south coast), in the 26,726 cu. yds. embankment at province of Havana. It was three miles 28 cts 7,483.28 from Benucal, situated on the United 4 miles telford-macadam (6 ins. Railways of Havana and "La Salud," telford, 4 ins. macadam), at situated on the Western Railway of $6,030 per mile 24,120.00 Havana, lay two miles to the south. 16,404 lin. ft. moving and re- Both towns were connected with the building dry rubble stone work by a telford-macadam road. fence 3.5 ft. high at 49 cts.. 1,476.36 The cost of materials and labor was 27,559 lin. ft. 7-strand barbwire as follows: fence at 7 cts 1,929.13 Portland cement, $3.50 per bbl. 131 lin. ft. (22.5 ins. diameter) Soft coal, $20 per ton. cement pipe at $3.60 479.46 Labor, $1.20 per 10-hour day. 1 reinforced concrete culvert (1 Foreman, $75 per month. meter or 3.29 ft. by 7.50 Sub-foreman, $1.50 per day. meters) or 23.66 ft 450.00 Timekeeper, $1.50 per day. 1 cement and brick section Machinist road roller, $3 per day. house for two families of Rent to government for road roller, road-menders 4,600.00 $10 per working day. ' Rock crusher, including coal and en- Total .$41,900.09 gineer, $7.50 per day. The contractor made a profit of 8 to Mule carts with driver, $2.50 per day. 8.5 per cent, on the entire contract. Mr. Ox carts (1 yoke), $2 per day. Chas. McKercher, assistant engineer. Four-ton road roller, with three yoke department of public works, Camaguey, of oxen, $3.50 per day. Cuba, was engineer in charge of the The longest haul for rock was 1.5 work, and we are indebted to him for miles. the information given above.—Engineer- The contract prices were as follows: ing-Contracting, Chicago.

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