This includes unloading from the cars. Train service cost 1/3 cent per ft. additional.
The pipe gang, including back-filling, consisted of 1 foreman, at $100 per month, one assistant foreman at $75, and about 30 Mexicans at $1 per day. The rates were the same in the ditching gang. The plow team cost $6 per day.
Including all general expense, the cost does not exceed 6 cents per lin. ft.
The cost of laying 101,300 ft. of 12-in. cast-iron pipe was $23,826.67, or 23.5 cents per ft., divided as follows:
Ditching $0.0249
Laying 0.1180
Back-filling 0.0110
Lead 0.0790
Oakum 0.0014
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Total $0.2343
This includes train service and unloading pipe, but nothing for tools. The foreman and inspector received $100 per month, the caulkers, $3; pourer, $3; melter, $2.50; 2 pipe-men, $2, and laborers, $1 per day. Professional caulkers wanted $5 per day. Carpenters, blacksmiths, and boiler-makers made good caulkers; their work is standing perfectly under a 275-lb. service.
The cost of the pumping plants complete per horse-power is as follows:
Pumps $79.00
Boilers 18.70
Building 41.70
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Total $139.40 per h.p.
The approximate cost per million gallons of storage capacity is as follows:
Nogal Storage Reservoir $103.00
Carrizozo Service " 3,040.00
Coyote " " 2,880.00
Luna " " 3,480.00
Corona " " 2,720.00