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Total Cost of Original Ditching if done by Commission (Exclusive 

 of Administration Overhead) . 



Inspection, $250 00 



Laborers' wages, 2,961 86 



Equipment, 140 00 



Miscellaneous expenses, 100 00 



$3,45i 86 



If this work were completed by June 1st, 191 4, the cost of 

 maintenance until September 1st, 191 4, would have been — 



Inspection, three months at $75, $225 00 



Labor, five men, 65 days, 585 00 



Oil, ; 50 OQ 



Miscellaneous expenses, 40 00 



$900 00 



Now, the total cost of digging and maintaining should not 

 have exceeded $4,400 could the work have been done under 

 county supervision. The saving, therefore, would have been, if 

 the Commission had been in existence at the time the work was 

 performed, at least $4,3,00. 



So far as the maintenance of the work is concerned I do not 

 think the charge of $1,200 a year, which was the maintenance 

 contract price,, would have been excessive if we had received the 

 protection from mosquitoes which we naturally expected. 



The Commission's figures on the estimate for 1916 tend to 

 show that if the maintenance in 191 5 had been attempted by the 

 Commission, the cost to them would have been as follows: 



Labor, May 1st to September 1st, $570 00 



Inspection, five months at $75, 375 00 



Oil and carting, 100 00 



Miscellaneous and equipment, 105 00 



$1,050 00 



Now, these figures tend to show that the contractor would not 

 have made a great deal had he maintained a constant inspection 

 and kept laborers always at work, and had this been the case the 



