Identifier: architectenginee0910sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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this in-stance, whether through blind faith or understanding, Los Ancrglesciti-zens were content and no unfavorable comment was made wl^en fifteenmonths after the bonds were voted a report was issued showing only ^000teet of aqueduct excavated and that on the Elizabeth tunnel Tliat thefoundations were well laid has been demonstrated over and o^■er a-ain inthe past twelve months. The reports to September 10 showed excavation of tunnel 1^0 9^^/ •?* ^y T^ sho^els, 91.838 feet: canal by hydraulic dredgers18,129 feet; a total of 120.931 feet, or 43.8 miles. And the hardest part ofthe work is being undertaken first. The organization consists of the central offices in Los Angeles com-prising the engineering, auditing, legal and purchasing departmentsIhese m turn are directed by a committee comprising the three membersof the Board of Public Works, one of whose members, Lieutenant GeneralAdna K. Chaffee (retired), is in charge of the aqueduct work and acts as 74 The Architect and Engineer
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The Architect and Eiii^iiieci 75 cliairman, the ))resi(lent of the Water P.oard and the heads of the legal,eiioineering and auditing departments with the city engineer. This com-mittee meets in executive session. It has no legal or executory advisory,and yet it is the most powerful body of the aqueduct organization. Itpasses upon all questions of policy and upon all expenditures of any mag^nitude. It in turn reports by written recommendation to the Board ofPublic Works, which has in charge the bond moneys and the directionof construction on all public works. The aqueduct is separated into eleven divisions, the length deter-mined by the character of the construction and ranging from 6 miles, asin the case of the Elizabeth tunnel, to the Jawbone section, 23 miles long.Each of the divisions in which work is under way is managed by a divisionengineer. The engineering, purchasing and auditing departments workin conjunction, so that one keeps tab on the other. The total number ofmen in the

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