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The department owns its own apparatus and 

 horses. 



I'm collecting refuse, the city is divided into six 

 sections and these are subdivided into 76 collection of 

 WMJIOII districts. In addition, there are two Reful * 

 districts served by boats. The laborers employed in 

 this work number about 170. 



In forty-one wagon districts, the refuse is carried to 

 covered piers, of which there are five; from these points 

 barges convey it to the depot for final disposition. 

 The refuse from the remaining districts is hauled to 

 the depot direct. In addition to this service, all vessels 

 lying at docks and in the harbor are relieved of their 

 ashes and refuse by means of a motor boat. 



In the year 1906 there were 320,000 cubic yards of 

 ashes, garbage, and other refuse conveyed to the depot 

 at an expense of $42,900. 



The number of horses employed in the year men- 

 tioned was 144. The cost of keeping these horses is 

 about 33 cents per animal per day, estimated on the 

 basis of food and bedding consumed. 



In the work of cleaning the canals and maintaining 

 them at proper depth, 1398 boatloads of floating 

 refuse and 5617 carcasses of animals were 

 collected at a cost of $2558 for labor. The %*** 

 work of dredging was done, in 1906, by con- 

 tract at the rate of about 19 cents per cubic yard. The 

 material dredged was deposited in a remote part of 

 the harbor for the purpose of making land. This work 

 was commenced in the middle of April and ended 

 toward the close of October. Three dredging-machines 

 were employed. The total cost of dredging from the 

 various canals was $14,341, the aggregate quantity of 



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