Lanterna Rally

Author: Oregon State Highway Dept

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781332233533

Excerpt from Annual Report of the State Highway Engineer: To the Oregon State Highway Commission for the Year Ending November 30, 1917 Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit for your approval the yearly report of 1917, for the fiscal year ending November 30. On account of the fact that the organization of the State Highway department was not completed until after the vote was taken on the $6, 000, 000.00 bond Issue, there remained very little time for preliminary and final surveys and Investigation during the working season, and due to the same fact, a comparatively small amount of construction was completed. It seems that at this time a voluminous report would hardly justify the expenditure, and It has been decided by the department that to submit a financial statement and summary of all work handled by this department would be sufficient. Any one desiring a detailed statement on any particular project can have same by applying to this office. I wish to cull particularly to your attention the large amount of Investigation which has been demanded by state, county and federal post aid work Such Investigations demand a reconnaissance, preliminary and ofttimes, final survey in order to determine the route to he taken, and in some cases where we have been refused federal cooperation, the surveys will be finally lost and the money expended on them will have to come out of the general engineering funds. The same Is also true as regards some state and county work where It was necessary to make surveys entirely through a district or county in order to get the best location, while as a matter of fact, the money available would only build a very short section on such location. In the latter two cases, however, the money expended for Investigation has not been last and these surveys will be available when further work Is contemplated within these districts. In regard to general office costs and general engineering work. I would like to call to your attention the fact that from one to three per cent preliminary expenditure before construction Is started Is legitimate, and in the case of the newly organized Highway Commission, with a very few working months ahead of it after the money became available, this expenditure will show somewhat greater than if we had had a full working year ahead of us. I would like to call to your attention the Items under the heading of "Construction Jobs," showing that we have thirty-two jobs actually under construction, amounting to a total of $2,367,300.00. and to the fact that the engineering cost on this work to date has been 1.53 percent on the estimated cost. We feel that on account of the large amount of preliminary investigation and surveys both under previous administration and under our administration that this cost Is very fair and that the work will be completed under a total low percentage of general overhead and engineering. The items under the heading "Construction Jobs" do not include all of the work which the State Highway department has handled and we will call to your attention the Items under "Bridge Design and Construction," showing the amount of work designed and constructed and the cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.