Summarizing we have the following cost:
| Materials— | |
| Cement, 5.6 bags at $0.62 | $3.472 |
| Gravel (excavating and screening) | 0.421 |
| Hauling gravel and sand | 0.223 |
| ——— | |
| Total, materials | $4.116 |
| Labor— | |
| Mixing concrete | $0.819 |
| Transporting concrete | 0.326 |
| Depositing concrete | 1.394 |
| Setting and moving forms | 0.498 |
| ——— | |
| Total, labor | $3.037 |
| Grand Total | $7.153 |
COST OF CONCRETE WORK IN LINING NEW YORK RAPID TRANSIT SUBWAY.—The costs given here refer alone to the concrete work in constructing the jack arch and steel beam lining of the original standard subway. Figure 143 shows the character of this construction. Arch panel forms were set up between the wall beams and hung from the floor beams and filled behind and above with 1-2-4 trap rock concrete. The form panels were used over and over and the concrete was machine mixed. Common labor was paid $1.50 per 8-hour day; foremen, $3; carpenters, $3; enginemen, $3.50; and masons, $4. The costs cover three sections and are in each case the averages for the whole section. They are, we believe, the only itemized costs that have been published for concrete work on this road.
Two-Track Subway.—In this section of two-track subway there were 8,827 cu. yds. of foundation concrete and 6,664 cu. yds. of concrete in wall and roof arches. The two classes of work cost as follows:
Fig. 143.—Cross-Section of New York Rapid Transit Subway.
| Foundations— | Total. | Per cu. yd. |
| Labor mixing | $ 4,669 | $0.53 |
| Labor placing | 5,142 | 0.58 |
| Materials and plant | 211 | 0.02 |
| Cement, sand, stone, etc. | 30,719 | 3.48 |
| ———— | ——— | |
| Total | $40,741 | $4.61 |
| Roof and side walls— | ||
| Labor mixing | $ 5,444 | $0.82 |
| Labor placing | 5,623 | 0.84 |
| Labor setting forms | 14,746 | 2.21 |
| Labor plastering arches | 431 | 0.06 |
| Materials and plant | 1,176 | 0.18 |
| Cement, sand, stone, etc. | 23,888 | 3.58 |
| ———— | ——— | |
| Total | $51,308 | $7.69 |
Averaging the work we have 15,491 cu. yds. of concrete placed at a cost of $5.94 per cu. yd.
Four-Track Subway.—On two sections of four-track subway the labor cost of mixing and placing concrete similarly divided was as follows: