[TABLE 5.]
Location.Number of days worked.Advance.Average advnce per day.
Station 323 to Central Shaft headings4921,4504.5
Bench and enlargement of Central Shaft headings159{1,150*
{ 906†
7.2*
5.7†
Central Shaft headings to Weehawken headings1416204.4

* Actual advance.

† Equivalent linear feet of full section tunnel.

The best month’s work in each location was as follows, the actual yardage excavated and paid for being reduced to equivalent linear feet of full section. The tunnels were generally taken out to full section, except for a small amount left in the bottom, which latter reduced the equivalent linear feet of full section to about 95% of the actual advance at the face.

Weehawken.

Linear
feet.
Feet
per
day.
Full timbered section,North TunnelNov., 1905, 87 == 3.0
Sandstone ” ”May, 1906,109 == 3.9
Trap (normal)South ”July, 1907,144 == 5.3

Hackensack (All trap).

Linear
feet.
Feet
per
day.

Portal to Central Shaft headings,

South TunnelMay, 1907,139 == 5.0

* Enlargement of headings,

” ”

Nov., 1907,175 == 6.0

Central Shaft headings to Weehawken headings,
North Tunnel

Apr., 1908,145 == 5.2

* The actual advance of the bench this month was 202 lin. ft.