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The Dominion government has awarded the contract to build the breakwater at Victoria to the firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd.
The cost will be $1,800,000.
The firm which will build the breakwater to extend 2,500 feet southwesterly from Ogden Point -- the first part of the big Outer Harbour scheme to include concrete piers, ferry slips, warehouses and all facilities for modern shipping -- is one of the largest, if not the largest, of harbour construction firms in the world.
When Mr. Brooks, Canadian representative of the company, was in Victoria, some weeks ago, he stated that if Sir John Jackson, Ltd. was successful in securing the contract, no time would be lost in starting work.
Quarries would be opened at once to get out the rip-rap, and the material and equipment would be assembled as quickly as possible, a large force of workmen being put to work before many weeks elapsed after the contract was let. The work is to be finished within thirty-six months of the notification of the acceptance of the tender -- in October 1915.
The breakwater, which will be 2,500 feet long, will extend into 75 or 80 feet of water, and will have a foundation of rip-rap, surmounted by a concrete wall, protected on the seaward side by concrete blocks. It is estimated that at least 365,000 yards of rip-rap will be required.
This will be quarried in the neighbourhood and dumped to make a lower mound, on which the wall will be built.
-- Victoria Daily Times
