Chicago : Engineering and Contracting Pub. Co. · leaf 611
llside alongthe property line of the owner. The objectof the wall was to secure the foundations ofsome buildings about 50 ft. further up on thehill. The hill slopes away quite rapidly fromthe foot of the wall and for this reason thefootings of the wall had to be carried downfurther than would have… … Section of Retaining Wall. for the entire wall was $5,531. After build-ing 305 ft. of the wall the contractors affairsbecame involved in other contracts and thelast 135 ft. of the wall was built by the own-er under the supervision of the writer. Theoriginal contract price was based on a wallof the…
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