Sea dyke—4,082 square yards of zinkstuks were sank in the bottom layer of the sea dyke, making 5,193 square yards in all since the start, the bottom layer now extending to 577 yards from shore; 837 square yards of fascine mattresses were placed at low tide on the layer of zinkstuks to ni yards from the shore; 300 eightecnfoot piles were driven through the fascine work and 135 of fifteen feet; besides solidifying the fascine work with mud and clay s quantity of earth was deposited along the inside of the sea dyke thas far raised.
Fort jetty—A start was made in December by sinking one zinkstuk of 330 square yards in the second section near the sea dyke preparative work. A site for the construction of zinkstuks was formed in the space to be reclaimed, by dumping at high tide soil dredged from junk channel and sand and gravel from elsewhere. A plot of land near Woosung fort was bought by the contractors for obtaining earth and clay to make a roadway along the sea dyke to' the jetty work and thence to the Fort railway station. A light rail track, for which the plant has already arrived, will be Inid on the roadway. Dwellings and sheds are being erected as quarters for the contractors' foremen and workmen.
The plant in use for this work at the fend of the quarter consisted of six big pontoons, two small pontoons, four anchor boats, one row boat, one tag oat, one pile driver, and the labour employed of two Dutch superintendents, nine Dutch expert sink workers, one Ningpo fascine foreman, twenty Ningpo fascine workmen, six carpenters, five head coolies, 131 coolies. Bad weather prevented work on ten dayn.
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