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Summary of Estimates.
Amount of Present Estimate- May, 1885.
Amount of Estimato No. 4- April, 1884.
Rs. cts.
Decrease.
Amount of Schedule No. 1 Amount of Schedule No. 2
Total
Ra. ots. 4,880,008 88 1,519,891 1
6,349,899 84
5,514,152 78 1,563,031 61
Rs. cts. 684,143 96 43,140 60
7,077,184 89
727,284 55
Total Decrease
727,284 55
SIDIOT BANJOZZLÍNAT
Description of Work.
Amount
Amount
Equal to a mileage rate in £ sterling
Distinctive Distinctive Letters as per|Letters as par|
Estimata
Ko. 4.
present Estimate.
of Revised Estimate, May, 1885.
of Estimate
No. 4, April
Decrease.
1884.
In £ sterling taking rupees at 1s. 7d. each
£ 602,700 8 1
a. d.
.€ s. d. 560,277 1 11
ABC
ABO
Earthwork Tunnels
CELIK A
DEF CHIKAN
ORR
Bridges, including erection of wronght 212,154 2
and cast Ironwork. Culverta
Ra. cts.
Ba. cta. 1,816,823 20 1,924,184 80 983,800 0 985,800 0 248,141 50
Rs. cts, 107,861 10 22,000 0 33,987 48
Giving a mileage rate for 25 miles 31 78 chaine
Re. cta, 250,023 12
Rs. cts. 278,659 47
·
£ a. d. 19,798 9 11
£ a. d. 22,060 10 9
507,400 80
581,448 85
74,048 55
Retaining Walls
688,078 80
Permanent Way, including Storage
246,092 45
688,078 80 396,947 67
and Transport of Materials.
Switches and Crossings
Fencing
Level Crossings
•
Metalling Roads
Stations, including Station Machinery
7,560 0 300 0 1,760 0 8,002 0 219,111 81
10,640 0 20,000 0
6,750 0 16,848 0 362,554 14
Workshops
L
Reserve Quantities
88,250 0
61,514 52 138,050 0
N
M
Maintenance
-
Price of Construction-Rs. 4,763,817 8 5,487,962 78 76,191 76 76,200 0
150,855 22
3,080 0 19,700 0 4,000 0 8,846 0 148,442 88 61,514 52 54,800 0
684,185 70
8 25
Total Price of Work included in
Schedule No. 1
Rs. 4,830,008 83 5,514,152 78
684,143 95
Bat priment
Schedule No. 2.
Comprising the items the cost of which under Contract similar to that for the Nánn-oys Railway would have to be borne by Government).
PRESENT ESTIMATE.
Description of Work.
Price of Manufacture in England.
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(N.B.—Kupass are taken så 1. 7. ch.)
·
Telegraph, në Ea. 500 per mile Last and Compensation - Engineering, Bupervision, and Adm!.
nistration, at Rs. 14,000 per mile
Trought Iron in Bridges-B344 tona,
14 @Wb. ) gr., 25 lb., at 166, par ton - Cast Iron in Bridges-8 tona, 38 cwt.,
að 148, par tou
Mock
Rohinga Besel Melle (73 16. per
zard), tome 1.14′36 så dë. per ton Permasant Way Steel Guard Zaila (400 lb. per yard), tons m8:00 15 45.
·
Provokings of nil sorts, my 000 tonn
T Battle Reepers, 06,000, at ka, dd, anál
(P70090 14. 106 per 13 såvapora surviene from Coleinko to Néon-c
Contingencies
Total Pylan of Work ineluded in
Behedule. No, -4.
- | 16,696 0 0
Freight, & Carriage from
taken us 11.10s. per ton.
21.6.
Colombo to
Tutal Kount of
Ninu-oyn
12 per in.
May, 2008.
at Ra.
Amount of
No. 6, being ({ose paragraph 6
mme as thes of Heimat No.
of June 180.
Reche.
Racis.
Ja
ota.
19,000 3
01,878
14,943 $1,076
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Increass. Decrease.
"
341,10 0 114.399
4.359 20
3,400
208,844 78
399,414 18
877,544
887,300
4,000 10
#17 1 4
71000 71
06,103 30
11000
1 14
100 •
4,671 10 0
87,372
1,070 190
4,900 00
and Oramings 17 solu në 1
$75.0
504180
400 00
0015 0
บ
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48,231 03
$7,900
1,771 #
41.313 26
190.96$ 64
25,000
1,420,001 1
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Ro.
1
DO
7,781 17
བྷཏྟཱ ༔་ནཱ
3,045
71,000 €
3,581,001 41 301,004
544,004
F
C 4. d. 57,576 18 10
Saving per mile,
Ro. cts. 28,636 35
£ s. d. 2,267 0 10
I consider the foregoing estimate, which, it will be observed, is at the rate of Rs. 250,023 12 per mile, to be ample in every particular, and to be one which will afford a very fair margin of profit to a contractor.
72. I stated in my letter to your address, No. 199, of 4th November 1882, that from an examination of the section of the line I believed that a very sensible reduction of the cost of the first 6 miles could be effected; and in this opinion I am confirmed from my recent examination of the trace on the ground. The alterations I would suggest are not of such a nature as would involve the delay attendant upon seeking for a new trace throughout, the general direction of the present trace being, I think, subject to the same limitations as regards curves and gradients, the best and indeed only practicable one, and they would therefore only include slight deviations from it at certain points with the view of better balancing the contents of the cuttings and embankments, and of reducing the masonry, and, in the event of the construction of the line being sanctioned, alterations of this nature can be easily made by the engineers who would then be on the ground, without inconvenience and without causing the slightest delay to the work.
73. In accordance with the instructions contained in the fifth paragraph of your communication, No. 25, of 3rd March last, I beg to submit my views upon the feasibility of carrying out the line departmentally, and upon the desirability, in that case, of the employment of pioneers and prisoners thereon.
74. One great advantage of the contract system is popularly supposed to be that the Government is aware at the commencement of the work of the aniount of expenditure to which it is committed; this under a schedule contract, however, is not the case, as under a contract of that class the contractor receives payment for the amount of work he actually does at his schedule rates, and in the event of the engineer's estimate of the quantities of the various descriptions of works required being under-stated, the increased expenditure falls upon the Government and not upon the contractor, who, if his prices for each unit of measurement be sufficient, gains more profit the more work he performs.
75. The past history of railway contracts in Ceylon shows, moreover, that the payments to a contractor are not only liable to increase from this reason, but also by the grant to him of premiums, either because the work has turned out unprofitably, or because the completion of the line is desired before the contract date, or on account of some changes or alterations in design made subsequently to the contract being signed, owing to which the contractor alleges his anticipated amount of profit has been lessened.
The payments to the contractors for the Nanu-oya Railway under this latter heading alone have been Rs. 50,000 for the adoption of the St. Andrew's Gap deviation, Rs. 29,834 for the substitution of creosoted for hardwood sleepers, and Rs. 242 87 as their loss of profit on account of the supply of a crane by the Government, which, in the terms of the contract, should have been supplied by them. All these payments would have been saved to the Government had the line been made departmentally.
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