The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 19, 1933, Page 12

12 THE DAILY ALASKA FJV[PIRE FRIDAY MAY |9 1933 NEMPLOYMENT! There are many tax payers and other men who call Juneau “HOME” who are needing work and looking for something to do! These Are Strenuous Times For Us All The business man must have a market demand for his commodities in order to give employment to the wage earner——the number of those > whom he can employ is proportionate to the volume of his gross business. Some Simple Figures in Arithmetic Our bid of May 5th to the City of Juneau for the following quantity order: 200 ft. 24 in. culvert pipe reinforced 200 ft. 8 in. sewerpipe 250 ft. 18 in. culvert pipe not reinforced 500 ft. 6 in. sewerpipe ! 300 ft. 12 in. sewerpipe 500 ft. 4 in. sewerpipe WAS $1526.00 Our Cost of Making These Pipe - - Local Labor 40% Distributed on a percentage basis as follows: R 33% direct LABOR for pipe machine operator, pipe stripper, culvert maker and J hclpcrs minimum ) ; 2 28% cement, gravel, reinforcing (md f()rm oil S 430.75 $936.88 61% total direct manufacturing costs ... NOTE: In cost of gravel there would be included LABOR for loading trucks and LABOR screening gravel suitable for making the different sized pipes. Cement is figured at agency cost to us, which is the lowest price at which cement can 1 be figured. .l ’ . . 9 - 39% balance to take care of general overhead and estimated profits. . $589.12 39% General Overhead and including estimated profits— Allowance for loss when making pipe in stripping (mostly 5 | Compensation insurance for accident and injury to laborers. LABOR loss). “ Fire insurance on building, machinery, molds and miscel- Allow.anclf ff'lr ‘1055 m'movmg pipe from curing rooms to A laneous equipment and materials in stock. stock piles (breakage). x p 0 . R e dsia ¢ s . 2 P . Py B . . ] Interest on investment in pipe machine and culvert molds. Carrying charges for I\eepm.b on hdn.d 111.>l()(-lt plles. in o o o - our yard a representative quantity of various sized Depreciation of pipe machine and culvert molds. pipe and culverts. Personal taxes on machinery. equipment and materials on i . Rind: ! Advertising. Office expenses. ! Proportionate taxes on real estate and building. And what is left of the 397 after all these costs are taken out i Repairs on pipe machine and other equipment. is our small profit. | 4 Little History About Establishing a S, Pipe Plant We bought the pipe machine at the time the City of satisfaction in being the pioneer in establishing a coming and Pacific Steamship lines, freighted by ton measurement 3 Juneau gave us the first order of 900 ft. of 12 in. pipe— line of business in a city in which you are a business man, (40 cu. ft. to ton), Seattle wharfage 50 cents and Juneau that was in 1923—with no guarantee but our faith in the tax payer, voter and employer of man power. wharfage $1.00 per ton. . permanence of ‘,ll-lY)(’ilu. and in its (le§1re to replac? the old The City has always been billed the following month OUR SHIPPING RECORDS FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS . wooden box sewers as time went on with concrete pipe. 3 % § h h § : : > e : for pipe taken off the stock piles each month, even for the 1931_66% over Alaska S. S., City Dock; 31% Pacific . We have been making pipe ever since, ten years, and first 'order of 1923. The City has never had money tied up S. dock; other lines 1%. nof l?t"e s;aw.er havs (ll?ffi.LlYttlltll. Silent praise of itself for the on pipe orders from us. 1932—57% over Alaska S. S., City Dock; 40% Pacific S. st L e e In 1926 we were short for immediate delivery of sev- S. dock; other lines 3% » We realized at the time of investing in the machine, eral sizes to replace some box sewer caveins and we shipped Note: The City Dock received the largest percentage of our A the limited market for pipe. Even though the machine is from Seattle the depleted amounts. The loss on this pipe Juneau wharfage. < only operated a few months out of the year, and taxes, de- we absorbed. We felt as long as we were manufacturers of ‘We have consistently patronized the old established preciation, insurance, etc., are the same as if we could pipe and unable to fill completely orders from our stock, lines even though we could have saved 50 cents to $1 freight i coniinuously operate every day in the year, we figured that was our loss. It takes 28 days for pipe to “cure” be- on every ton shipped to us. | that there would be sufficient quantity sold as time went on fore they can be placed in the ground. These shipped-in In the past two years the saving would have meant to justify its installation—and there is also a civic pride and pipes came from Seattle over both the Alaska Steamship many a dollar in our pockets. A e o UL IR GR T k . Al : | (7] ( hJ GENERAL CONTRACTOR—DEALER IN HEAVY BUILDING MATERIALS i ¥ MANUFACTURER CONCRETE PRODUCTS SHOP AND OFFICE—Corner 12th and Willoughby