This includes unloading from the cars. Train service cost 1/3 cent per
ft. additional.

The pipe gang, including back-filling, consisted of 1 foreman, at $100
per month, one assistant foreman at $75, and about 30 Mexicans at $1 per
day. The rates were the same in the ditching gang. The plow team cost $6
per day.

Including all general expense, the cost does not exceed 6 cents per lin.
ft.

The cost of laying 101,300 ft. of 12-in. cast-iron pipe was $23826.67, or
23.5 cents per ft., divided as follows:


Ditching $0.0249
Laying 0.1180
Back-filling 0.0110
Lead 0.0790
Oakum 0.0014
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Total $0.2343


This includes train service and unloading pipe, but nothing for tools.
The foreman and inspector received $100 per month, the caulkers, $3;
pourer, $3; melter, $2.50; 2 pipe-men, $2, and laborers, $1 per day.
Professional caulkers wanted $5 per day. Carpenters, blacksmiths, and
boiler-makers made good caulkers; their work is standing perfectly under