. Electric railway journal . Thack Labor Costs Removing old track, per lineal foot $0,070 Grading (elevation of old track about 6 in. higher than new track) 487 Drain 054 Laying and blocking up track 197 Bonding 014 Placing paving block and reinforcement 109 Concreting: Base ; .282 Wearing surface 156 Total $ Wage scale: Laborers 22 % cents to 27 Va cents per hour Finishers 30 cents per hour Engineers 35 cents per hour Block setters 55 cents per hour Foreman 50 cents per hour. SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY—WORKING ON ONE TRACKWHILE MAINTAINING TRAFFIC ON THE OTHER SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY—E
. Electric railway journal . Thack Labor Costs Removing old track, per lineal foot $0,070 Grading (elevation of old track about 6 in. higher than new track) 487 Drain 054 Laying and blocking up track 197 Bonding 014 Placing paving block and reinforcement 109 Concreting: Base ; .282 Wearing surface 156 Total $ Wage scale: Laborers 22 % cents to 27 Va cents per hour Finishers 30 cents per hour Engineers 35 cents per hour Block setters 55 cents per hour Foreman 50 cents per hour. SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY—WORKING ON ONE TRACKWHILE MAINTAINING TRAFFIC ON THE OTHER SALT LAKE & OGDEN RAILWAY—ELECTRICKEEPING THE CONCRETE WARM HEATERS idated Heater Company electric car heaters, connectedten in series on 720 volts, each placed at intervals of10 ft. Canvas was stretched over the whole and theheaters were placed in circuit with the trolley wire bymeans of a fishpole connection in order that the entiremass of fresh concrete might be kept warm. The detail labor costs of this job per running footfollow in the next column. The tracks were laid 15 to center. Except for the cement the material costs were verynominal, the various grades of washed sand and gravel being obtained from the bed of the Weber River nearOgden, where we constructed a temporary spur trackto enable us to load by steam shovel. We contemplatethe building of an additional 2 miles of this constructionin the spring. At a meeting in the general office of the ColumbusRailway, Power &
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