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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 62

Quantity: to Finish

Quantity: to Finish.

Your Engineer estimates that about 60,000 tons of first class stone is now required to complete the breakwaters, and there will be no difficulty in getting this quantity from the high level quarry, with perhaps a small remainder from the low level. There is, of course, great abundance of smaller stone to be had for the purpose of forming the training walls, for pitching the river banks, and the slopes of the proposed ship-basin. In the process of quarrying for large stone, a quantity of such small stone has to be removed, and your Engineer is stacking it in a suitable position to be reloaded for the construction of the training walls. This is advisable, and it will be economical to have this stone thus stacked rather than throw it away. The price at which it is stacked, that is 1s per ton, seems high compared to the present contract price for quarrying and filling first class stone, viz.—5d to 8d per ton, but the latter is so low a price that I doubt if the contract could be carried out unless assisted by the price obtained for the smaller stone which is removed and stacked when quarrying the larger.