UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
LAWRENCE

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

October 26, 1938

Dr. F. C. Allen

Department of Physical Education
Robinson Gymasium

Campus

Dear Dr. Allen:

You may desire a report on the money spent and work done on
the grading of the intramural field. Following is a brief report.

For grading of field:

Hire of power shovel - - - -—- $ 486.20
Hire of trucks - - - - — = 338.890
Extra driver for truck - - - 11.20
Labor paid for grading - - <- 90.65
Engineering and supervision - 94.90

Total for grading - §$ 1020.85

There was moved a total of 9050 cubic yards, which gives a unit cost

for moving the earth and planing it down of 11.3 cents per cubic yard.
This does not give credit for the W.P.A. labor received, which was

used in leveling earth dumped from trucks during the last half of the
work. As shown above, we spent $90.65 for this labor before W.P.A.

help was assigned. In reality we have accomplished a great deal more
than I had ever hoped for the money we had to spend, as the best contract
bid we had on the grading was 20 cents per cubic yard. We were very
fortunate in being able to get the Towmmship power shovel at $2.50 per
hour rental, as such a shovel usually rents for about $4.00 per hour.

In addition to the above expense, there are outstanding bills
for the following:

120 Steel Guard Posts (Coens)

at «40 — cK = ied — = = $ 48.00
28 sacks cement (Friends)

at .70 less 108 - - - -+ 16.80
Sand, approximately - - - - 5.00

Paint and brushes (Green Bros.) 4.93 —
Total - - - - - § 74.73

I believe you mentioned you had purchased about $60.00 worth of
pipe for bringing water to the field. On the above basis then, there has
been spents

$ 1020.85
74.73
60.00 $ 1155.58