Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
5 Miners do do 9s. -- -- 360
1 Blacksmith do do 9s. -- -- 72
2 Lime Burners do do 9s. -- -- 144
200 Labourers do do 4s. -- -- 6400
8 Overseers do do 9s. -- -- 576
Additional pay to 4 Master Carpenters and a Master
Mason 160 days at4s 160
Clerk of the Checque for 160 days (who is also to deliver the provisions and tools, and keep all the accounts) at 10s 80
11 Cooks for 160 days at 4s ... , 352
1 Surveyor with four Assistants (to be employed when
requisite) at 40s. per day, estimated at 170
A person to attend at tlie Falls during the winter to receive the timber, &c. and to be kept as an assistant during the next season, per annum 150
Estimate of the expence of the canal and locks at the Palls, from the data given in the preceding report and annexed map ;
1102 INLAND LOCK- NAVIGATION.
the quantity of eartli, stone, and rock wliicli it will be necessary to remove to form tl:e canal and locks, supposing the base of tlie canal to be 10 feet, w ill be in ronnd numbers about 350,000 cubic feet. If one half is either solid, or such other rock as will require to be bored and blcHvn, tliat half will be 175,000 cubic feet ; if then one miner can blow one cubic yard per day, it will require 6500 days for one man to complete the whole blowing, his wages at f mr shillings per day, amounts to jGlSOO