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Thirty-two inch.—At North Yakima, Wash., 1894; Redwood siphon 940 feet 
long; 82 inches diameter; maximum head, 90 feet; bands, one-half inch diam- 
eter; built by force account for $2,500, equals $2.66 per linear foot. Dupli- 
cated by contract, 19038, for same figure. 
At Filer, Idaho, 1901; 1,300 feet; 32 inches diameter; fir staves, 18 inches 
thick, at $40 per thousand feet b. m. on basis of 2 by 6 inch lumber; bands, 
one-half inch diameter, 57 cents each; malleable iron shoes, 4 cents each; 
tongues, $ by 13 by 5% inches, 3 cents; pressure head, 0 to 40 feet; work done 
by force account; wages, $2.50 for 10 hours, and foreman $5; hauling material 
8 miles, $75; erecting on top of ground, approximately $250. Cost of staves 
and steel laid down at Filer, $1.85 per foot of pipe; haul and erecting, 25 cents; 
total approximately, $1.60 per foot. 
Thirty-siz inch.—At Jerome, Idaho, 1912; 650 feet; 86 inches diameter; head, 
0 to 48 feet; staves, fir, 13 inches thick; band, one-half inch diameter; built 
in trench and buried 2 feet deep; average haul, 4 to 5 miles. Cost, including 
everything except engineering and administration, $1,596, or $2.46 per foot. 
Forty inch.—At Jerome, Idaho, 1912; 3,118 feet; 40 inches diameter; head, 
0 to 100 feet; fir staves, 12 inches thick; bands, one-half inch diameter; built 
in trench and buried 2 feet deep; average haul, 10 miles; cost, $8,933, or $2.87 
per foot, including everything except engineering and administration. 
Forty-two inch.—At Jerome, Idaho, 1912; 980 feet; 42 inches diameter; head, 
0 to 51 feet; staves, fir, 13 inches thick; bands, one-half inch diameter; built 
in trench and buried 2 feet deep; average haul, 4 to 5 miles; cost, $2,556, or 
$2.61 per foot, including everything except engineering and administration. 
Forty-four inch.—At Wenatchee, Wash., 1902-8; 9,000 feet; 44 inches diam- 
eter; maximum head, 285 feet; bands, one-half inch diameter; fir staves, 1 inches 
thick; laid in trench, and ou bridge across Wenatchee River; contract price for 
pipe, $2.20 per linear foot. Excavating and backfilling not included. 
At Palisades, Colo., 1909-10; 3 fir pipes, 44 inches diameter; 2,850 feet; 1,055 
and 1,150 feet in length; cost by contract, $3.15, $3.25, and $2.90 per linear foot, 
respectively. No earthwork included. . 
Forty-eight inch.—At Palisades (orchard mesa), Colo., 1909-10; for 6 pipes 
48 inches in diameter and varying lengths and heads, the unit prices ranged from 
$2.40 per foot up to $4.75 per foot, the average of the six being $3.52; mate- 
rial, fir. 
At Deer Park, Wash. (about 1909), 94,000 feet of fir pipe; head, 0 to 70 feet, 
built in trench; contract price, $2.35 per foot, includes delivery of all material 
at railroad point and erection of pipe, but no haul or earthwork. 
Forty-eight inch.—At Clarkston, Wash., 1906; fir staves, 12 inches thick, 4-inch 
pands; built in trench by force account, for light head; cost, $2.25 per foot, no 
earthwork included. Foreman received $3.50 per day and other men $2.50 for 
10 hours. 
Fifty-eight inch.—At Pueblo, Colo., 1907; 2,277.5 feet; cost by contract, $6.14 
per foot, no earthwork included. 
Sizty inch.—At Pueblo, Colo., 1907; on 17 fir pipes the unit price per foot 
ranged from $4.19 to $6.58, averaging $5.51. The combined length of 17 pipes 
equals 19,821.5 feet, making the average price per foot on this basis equal $6.27; 
earthwork not included. 
Sixty inch.—At Nissa, Oreg., 1912; 6,700 feet; average head about 65 feet; 
bands, $ inch diameter; staves, fir, 2 by 6 inches; built on wooden cradles; con- 
tract price, $4.25 per foot, included material, erecting, and freight, but no haul 
or earthwork. 
