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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd section West Canal, Specs. 2541. 54-B shovel is loading 10 yard Euclid trucks with rock from the G.N.R.R. crossing plug at the station 1043/20. Water in the canal came from snow melt and sub-surface...
1950-05-21
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 1st section, Potholes East Canal, Specs. 2787. 54 B dragline excavating shot rock and loading into 18 cy. Yd. dump trucks hauling and wasting on right of station 231/00. Work is being performed by Guy...
1950-06-22
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 1st section, Potholes East Canal, Specs. 2787. 120 B dragline electrically operated excavating canal section at station 328. Work is being performed by Guy F. Atkinson Co. under above specifications....
1950-06-22
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Third Section, West Canal, Specifications 2844, Schedule No. 1 and 2. View in bottom of West Canal as excavated at Statio 1272/00 looking downstream at D 8 Cat with ripper working at loosening caliche...
1950-11-09
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation division, Specifications No. 2648, Winchester Wasteway, Earthwork and Structures Station 1/28.67 to station 964/00. Contractor: J.A. Tertling and Sons, Inc. Blasting in the vicinity of Station 7/00 in the chute...
1949-10-26
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 1st Section Potholes East Canal, Specs. 2787. Compacted core bank construction in thoro-fill section Sta. 330 to 348. All material hauled from borrow areas by WD-10 scrapers and rolled with sheepsfoot...
1950-06-22
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Closeup of Guntert and Zimmerman trimmer being used by Winston-Utah on East Low Canal. Photograph taken especially for Popular Mechanics Magazine. Photographer: F. B. Pomeroy
1949-08-30
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Canal trimmer, build by Guntert and Zimmerman for the contractor. Lining machine is setting behind the trimmer. Roller in the foreground is a Hyster grid roller used...
1950-04-10
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Contractors employees erecting the Guntert and Zimmerman trimmer at about station 1045. This view shows the back of the machine. Work is being performed by...
1950-03-21
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Close-up showing drive mechanism excavating buckets and conveyor belts on the right front side of the trimmer. Left side is similar. Work is being performed by...
1950-06-16
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Guntert and Zimmerman trimmer (front view) at about station 1050. This machine is trimming the canal bottom and slopes to the neat line of the under-side of the...
1950-04-17
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Trimmer at about sta. 366+00. Soap Lake in the background. Work is being performed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 1 of above Specifications. H.E. Foss,...
1950-09-18
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Columbia Basin project, Irrigation division, Main Canal, Specifications No. 2324, Western Contracting Corporation contractors. Rolling compacted cushion on 1st slope of main canal densities have been obtained with from six to eight passes on a 4...
1949-07-19
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. 2nd Section, West Canal, Specs. 2541. The liner moving along the left main bank east of Soap Lake at about station 369. Work is being performed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 1 of the above...
1950-09-13
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. West Canal. Spec. #1286--Utah Construction Co. and Winston Bros. Co. Contractor. View of canal section, looking east from station 256, shows rock drilled and loaded and nearly ready for shooting....
1946-12-05
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Bucyrus-Erie 51-B dragline and dozer removing snow from the canal at about station 1155. Note the size of the blocks of snow as compared with the man and the dozer...
1950-03-24
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Winchester Wasteway, Specs. 2648. Mixer truck discharging concrete into a 'laydown type' bucket during the first concrete pour in the chute and stilling pool section in the vicinity of Sta. 38+00. The...
1950-04-10
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Winchester Wasteway, Specs. 2648. Placing concrete on the floor slap of the Winchester Wateway chute in the vicinity of station 21+00. In foreground workmen are placing the paving forms which serve as a...
1950-05-08
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Columbia River Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Winchester Wasteway, Specs. 2648. A general view of operations in the chute seen from the highway bridge at station 12+27. The floor pour in the immediate foreground has just been completed and...
1950-05-18
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Soap Lake Siphon, Specifications 2411. This photograph shows the sump of the gravel trap and the partially constructed open inlet transition. The gap between the concrete and the circular re-steel is...
1950-05-09
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West Canal, Specs. 1286, Winston-Utah Co. Welder finishing joints on reinforcing steel. Photo by F.B. Pomeroy.
1948-04-07
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West Canal, Specs. 1286, Winston-Utah Co. Reinforcing steel crew at work, aided by truck-mounted crane on jumbo. Bridge of jumbo is a war-surplus Baily Bridge. Photo by F.B. Pomeroy.
1948-04-07
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West Canal, Specs. 1286, Winston-Utah Co. Guntert and Zimmerman lining machine in operation. At the right are the two tractor-propelled mixers which serve the paver. A truck is dumping aggregates and cement in the hopper of the mixer. Photo by...
1950-04-07
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Specifications No. 2324, Schedule 2, Long Lake Dam Headworks and Concrete Canal Lining and Structures Station 745+80 to Station 1101+29.0--Main Canal. Contractor: Western Contracting Corp. Front view of...
1949-08-09
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Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Specifications No. 2324, Schedule 2, Long Lake Dam Headworks and Concrete Canal Lining and Structures Station74+80 to Station 1101+29.00--Main Canal. Contractor: Western Contracting Corp. Front view of...
1949-09-15
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