T.A. Gillespie Company, engineers and contractors - water works and pipe lines, railroad and tunnel construction, hydroelectric plants. (1912) (14574312378)

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Title: T.A. Gillespie Company, engineers and contractors : water works and pipe lines, railroad and tunnel construction, hydroelectric plants.
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: T.A. Gillespie Company.
Subjects: Pipe Pipe, Steel
Publisher: New York : T.A. Gillespie Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS NEW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL CONTRACTS NOS. 76 AND 77 The contracts for this work were awarded on December 23, 1910, and will be completed on December \t1913. On December 31, 1911, 40 per cent, of the work had been completed. The contracts call for the construction of 12 1 _> miles of the New York State Barge Canal, from New-ark, N. Y., to Palmyra, N. Y., and include the construction of two locks, the masonry work for ten high-way bridges and the superstructure of four highway bridges, guard gates, two abutments and one pier forguard gates. Also, the removal of 120 houses and buildings at Newark and Palmyra. The principal construction quantities are as follows: Excavation 4,800,000 cubic yards Concrete 80,000 cubic yards Forming Embankment 400,000 cubic yards Wash Wall 77,000 cubic yards Structural Steel 725,000 pounds Wakefield Wooden Sheet Piling 1,000,000 feet B. M. 33 THE T. A. GILLESPIE COMPANY
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Steam Shovel Cut. Newark, N. Y., New York State Barge C anal 1911. 34 ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS