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<br />~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />! <br />'r <br />I <br /> <br />.,..... :-- <br />,!,v",U <br /> <br />CHAPTER 6 <br /> <br />PURCHASING, RIGHT OF WAY, MEDICAL, <br />SAFETY, PERSONNEL, MISCELLANEOUS <br />ACTIVITIES <br /> <br />Purchasing <br />The purchase of supplies, materials, and equipment has been on <br />a decreasing scale in step with the redudion in construction, <br />particularly force account work on pumping plants and San Jacinto <br />tunnel, as completion of the initial stage of the project approaches. <br />The number of purchase orders issued in the two-year period was <br />16,570, totaling approximately $1,280,000. Transportation require- <br />ments were equivalent to 3,036 carloads at a cost of $270,000. <br />During this period the disposa~ of salvage stock from the storage <br />yard at Banning and as released from service at San Jacinto camps <br />or other points on the aqueduct has been satisfactorily active. <br />Sales of the District's heavy equipment have been stimulated by <br />beginning of construction on the Central Valley pl"('ject in Cali- <br />fornia, particularly railroad relocation in the vicinity of Shasta <br />dam, and of the extension of the New York city aqueduct, with a <br />large amount of tunnel work. Contractors on the Colorado River <br />project have been heavy buyers of muckinf]; machines. electric loco- <br />motives. cars, drill carriages, rock drills, and drill sharpeners for <br />use on their contracts elsewhere. In addition, two Iarr;e mine hoists <br />have been sold to one California gold mining company, compressors <br />have been disposed of to airplane manufacturers, several mucking <br />machines were shipped to Cardiff, England, a drill carriage was <br />sent to South America, and two motor-driven pumps were sold <br />to the Mexican government for use in that country. The amount <br />of $1,210,000 was received from salvage sales in the two-year <br />period and materials and equipment to the value of $110,000, at <br />appraised prices, were transferred to other project features. As <br />described under construction utilities, use of the water and power <br />systems was terminated at the end of 1939. Steel tanks and pipe <br />lines of the water system have been sold in place and removed. <br />[103 J <br />