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Cost estimate of a five room railroad employee's cottage at Las Vegas (Nev.), July 1,1909

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Date

1909-07-01

Description

Typed, itemized estimate of costs for a five room cottage to be built within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Document includes item description, material cost, labor cost and total costs for construction and freight. The railroad cottages were built by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company for employees of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad between 1909 and 1911.

Digital ID

snv002562

Physical Identifier

97-19--Box 1, File 1199

Permalink

http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1tm72f8p
Details

Subject

Business enterprises
Finance
Real estate development
Railroad companies
Dwellings
Building

Place

Las Vegas

Resource Type

Text

Material Type

documents (object genre)

Archival Collection

Union Pacific Railroad Collection

Digital Project

Southern Nevada The Boomtown Years 1900-1925

Citation

snv002562. Union Pacific Railroad Collection. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1tm72f8p

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Standardized Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Digital Provenance

Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

Date Digitized

2010-08-26

Language

English

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

Format

image/tiff

Estimate of cost of a five-room cottage at Las Vegas, Nevada. Size 24'x38' including front and rear porches, using floor plan and elevations similar to design No. 2, drawing No. 15574; exterior walls of 6" concrete blocks, and "Ready Rock" roofing. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Description Material Labor Total __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Excavation (House, fence posts, etc)9cy@$.40 3.60 3.60 Concrete foundation, 9 l/2 c.y. 8.00 33.25 42.75 76.00 Chimney on brackets, 10 lin. ft. 1.20 7.50 4.50 12.00 Exterior walls, 6" conc. blocks, 1056s.f. .195 71.28 134.64 205.92 Rough lumber, 4,350' B.M. 34.00 82.65 65.25 147.90 Flooring 1,150' B.M. 43.00 32.20 17.25 49.45 "Ready Rock" roofing, 14 squares 3.30 32.20 14.00 46.20 Finish lumber, 700' B.M. 55.00 28.00 10.50 30.50 Ceiling, 425' B.M. 45.00 12.75 6.37 19.12 Moulding, 350 lin. ft. .04 7.00 7.00 14.00 " 325 " .015 2.44 2.43 4.87 Base, 1"x8", 325 lin. ft. .12 19.50 19.50 39.00 Windows & Frames, 6 2Lts. 3'0"x4'x6"x1 1/2 " 3 2" 2'6"x3'0"x1 1/2") 7.50 45.00 22.50 67.50 " 1 2" 3'6"x4'6"x1 1/2" 8.50 6.00 2.50 8.50 Window screens for lower sash, 10 .60 4.50 1.50 6.00 Doors and frames (Interior), 10 7.00 47.50 22.50 70.00 " " " (Front), 1 12. 00 8.75 3.25 12.00 " " " (Screen), 2 2.00 3.25 .75 4.00 Porch screen, 60 sq. ft. .05 1.80 1.20 3.00 Kitchen cupboard 17.50 7.50 25.00 Hardware 54.00 54.00 Plastering, 350 sq. yds. .25 29.75 57.75 87.50 Painting, 231 " " .20 18.48 27.72 46.20 Plumbing 110.00 35.00 145.00 Board fence (Side & rear) 1126' B.M. 34.00 21.39 16.89 38.28 Iron fence (Front & side) 65 lin. ft. .35 16.25 6.50 22.75 Cement walk 24'x3' 3" thick, 72 sq. ft. .10 2.16 5.04 7.20 Electric lights (single drop lts.) 9 outlets 2.50 12.50 10.00 22.50 Electric lights (2 light fixtures) 1 outlet 5.00 4.50 .50 5.00 Cast iron ventilator plates, 6"xl2" per doz. 3.50 1.75 1.75 10% supervision & contingencies 73.38 54.88 128.26 _______________________ Total estimated cost less freight $807.23 $603.77 $1411.00 Freight at commercial rate 190.00 190.00 ________________________ Total estimated coat plus freight at commercial rates $997.23 $603.77 $1601.00 Los Angeles, Cal., July 1, 1909.