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Unionville, Winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada
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Contract for mounting 36-inch telescope on Mount Hamilton, CA, awarded to Warner & Swasey for $42,000. Details on size, costs, and timeline for completion in 1887. Total apparatus cost $164,850 plus extras.
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The contract for mounting the 36-inch objective on Mount Hamilton, California, has been awarded by the Lick Trustees to Warner & Swasey, of Cleveland, for $42,000. The telescope is to be 57 feet long, and the diameter of the tube is 42 inches. It is expected that in spite of the great size of the telescope itself and of its great weight, the mechanism will be so delicately adjusted as to require little physical force. The mounting will be completed in April, 1887, and some time during the Summer of 1887 the glass will be brought to Mount Hamilton and put in place. The cost of the entire apparatus is as follows: Cost of the dome, $56,850; cost of the mounting, $42,000; cost of the visual objective, $3,000; additional cost of the photographic objective, $13,000. Total, $164,850.
Beside these sums several thousand dollars will be required to put the instrument into its final completed state.
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Mount Hamilton, California
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April 1887; Summer 1887
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Contract awarded to Warner & Swasey for mounting 36-inch telescope on Mount Hamilton for $42,000. Telescope 57 feet long, 42-inch tube diameter. Mechanism delicately adjusted. Completion in April 1887, glass installation in Summer 1887. Total costs: dome $56,850; mounting $42,000; visual objective $3,000; photographic objective $13,000; total $164,850. Additional costs for completion.