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Stone wall construction by the CWA in the parks and along the San Felipe Creek was rapidly be ing completed Tuesday under the supervision of Phil Garoni, local Stone expert. Twelve ten are working in the Stone quarry and seven men are employed as stone masons to com plete the work. Thirteen men are working under Garoni doing’ clear ing work. Tuesday the men were at work on a stone wall being constructed between the two railroad bridges north of Moore Park. The wall here is 350 feet in length and ap proximately eight feet high. An other wall, flanking one branch of the creek, is also under construc tion, this wall being 60 feet in length. Stone workers have com pleted a low wall at the end of Moore Park on the west, where the Park meets the road that crosses San Felipe Creek. This wall was erected to discourage driving cars onto grass at that end of the park, Garoni pointed out. At Turdy Park, a retaining wall on the upstream, Side of the John son Street bridge is under con struction. Garoni's workers have completed a §00-foot Stone retaining wall five feet high at the plot known as Perez Park on Gilli Street and adjacent to the San Antonio high way bridge. The wall was built 60 feet from the creek and defines the land donated by Perez for the park Altogether, the stone workers have taken 10,000 cubic feet of building stone from the city quarry for building walls in the parks and along the creek, Garoni estimated. This stone is fine white building Stone, very hard and attractive. It is quarried with a compressor, loaned by the country, the oil and gasoline used by the compressor being furnished by the city. ‘The Stone work has been under way Since January 2, Garoni explained. However, the stone work has not been the only work under Garoni's supervision. An average of 180 men have been employed under his direction on the project known as the San Felipe Emergency Project This work included cleaning, widen ing, and straightening the creek banks from the springs above the San Felipe Country Club to Round Mountain on both sides of the creek Approximately 80 of the men worked the creek banks with 50 in the gravel pit and 30 working at Moore Park. In addition to the Moore Park, the creek banks and the stone work, Garoni’s CWA workers have graveled Avenue D and E and worked a road from the San Antonio highway to San Felipe Creek at the place known as Pig Pen Crossing. Other stone work will be done in Roosevelt Park later on should such a project be approved in Austin, Garoni explained. This work would include the construction of fountains and memorial markers, Garon declared.
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Del Rio Evening News
Del Rio, Texas, US
Tue, Feb 20, 1934
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