Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.Wentworth, Tappan
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Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.
Wentworth, Tappan
Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.); Railroad tunnels -- Massachusetts; Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company
Deerfield Dam, $244,912 29
Buildings East End, $31,688 99
Buildings West End and West Shaft, 40,010 13
Buildings Central Shaft, 12,026 83
Buildings General Account, 9,637 37
---------- 93,263 32
Machinery East End, $87,032 38
Machinery West End, 539 89
Machinery West Shaft, 57,111 73
Machinery Central Shaft, 51,364 01
Machinery Deerfield Dam, 10,820 93
Machinery General Account, 62,600 76
---------- 269,469 70
Land Damages and Land, 17,513 21
Engineering and Superintendence, 84,840 48
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Total outside expenditures, $709,999 00
_Inside Expenditures._
East End Heading, $103,731 45
East End Enlargement, 17,559 46
East End Bottom, 80,317 10
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$201,608 01
Central Shaft, 144,423 75
West Shaft Headings, &c., 179,041 69
West End approach cut, drifting
and arching, 247,900 75
Total inside expenditures, ---------- 772,974 20
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Total expenditures to November 1, 1866, $1,482,973 20
The exact correctness of any classification of the expenditures is not
very important, inasmuch as the sum total is chargeable to the
construction of the tunnel; but the Committee do not see the propriety
of charging the engineering and superintendence exclusively to the
outside expenditure. They have seen a classification which gave,--
Amount put into buildings machinery, &c., $673,531 24
Spent in the work, 809,441 96
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Total, $1,482,973 20
GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE FORCE EMPLOYED ON THE TUNNEL,
November 1, 1866.
Thomas Doane, Chief Engineer, salary, $3,600 00
He providing his horses.
Paul Hill, Superintendent of Labor, 3,000 00
His horse furnished to him.
_In the Chief Engineer's Office._
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