Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs

by Halbert Powers Gillette; Charles Shattuck Hill

With these prices and wages the average cost of concrete work for the whole line was:

Item.	Per cu. yd.
Form building and removing	$1.98
Mixing and placing concrete	0.74
Placing reinforcement	0.10
Wire, nails, water, etc.	0.20
1.1 bbls. cement at $1.75	1.93
½ cu. yd. sand at $0.72	0.36
0.9 cu. yd. stone at $1.49	1.34
Lumber for forms	0.49
	———
Total	$7.14

The following are the costs of specific structures built at different times:

Example I.—Indian Creek Culvert. 14×15 ft., 250 long, completed November, 1905:

	Per cu. yd.
Cement	$1.37
Sand	.34
Stone	1.10
Labor	2.48
Lumber	.76
Miscellaneous	.18
Total	$6.23

Example II.—Third Street Abutments and Retaining Wall. Completed November, 1906:

	Per cu. yd.
Cement	$1.78
Sand	.35
Stone	1.35
Lumber	.74
Labor	2.75
Miscellaneous	.16
	——
Total	$7.13

Example III.—Abutments, Overhead Crossing with Union Pacific and Rock Island. Completed May, 1907:

	Per cu. yd.
Cement	$1.92
Sand	.32
Stone	1.74
Lumber	.98
Labor	2.96
Miscellaneous	.16
	——
Total	$8.08