Canal lining and construction--truck pouring concrete

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

Canal lining and construction--erecting the trimmer

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

Canal lining and construction-- 2nd section west canal

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

Construction of pipelines, syphons and tunnels--interior of Bacon Tunnel

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division I, Bacon Tunnel, Specification 1236, T.E. Connolly Inc., Contractors. Photograph toward tunnel portal from Station 186+44, showing both unsupported and timbered tunnel from Station186+50 and Station 187+10.

1947-03-13

Construction methods and Long Lake dam--defective concrete [01]

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 3rd Section East Low Canal, Specs. 2879. Defective concrete removed on pin bearings, Weber Wasteway Turnout Sta. 1951+00, East Low Canal. Anchor bolts welded to re-steel for additional strength. Work is...

1950-10-31

Canal lining and construction--looking across the canal at complete drain inlet

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Looking across the canal at the completed drain inlet at station 1175+44. Work is being performed by Morrison, Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 2 of above...

1950-06-16

Canal lining and construction--GNRR Bridge construction

Columbia Basin Project--Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Abutments and pier for the G.N.R.R. bridge at canal station 1224+57. Backfilling is complete around the abutment at the right and nearly completion that at the left....

1950-06-16

Canal lining and construction--bridge bents and abutments

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Bridge bents and abutments for the county road bridge at station 1151+87. Work is being performed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 2 of above Specifications....

1950-06-16

Canal lining and construction--front view of the slip form lining machine [02]

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

Canal lining and construction--removing snow from the canal

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

Canal lining and construction--trimmer and lining machine

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

Canal lining and construction-- main canal

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division I, Main Canal, Specifications 1236, J. A. Terteling and Sons, Inc., Contractors. Main canal looking upstream from sta. 33/00. Monighan dragline building up right bank with borrow material prior to pacing...

1948-05-04

Construction of pipelines, syphons and tunnels--inlet portal of Bacon Tunnel

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division I. Bacon Tunnel, Specifications 1236, T.E. Conolly Inc., Contractor. Inlet portal of the Bacon Tunnel showing the full size of tunnel and steel supports in position

1947-07-23

Construction methods and Long Lake dam--defective concrete [02]

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 3rd Section East Low Canal, Specs. 2879. Defective concrete removed on pin bearings, Weber Wasteway Turnout Sta. 1951+00, East Low Canal. Anchor bolts welded to re-steel for additional strength. Work is...

1950-10-31

Map of the Columbia to illustrate Ross's adventures

1 map; 20 x 25 cm. The author of this map (and the book it comes in) was a trader in the employ of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, and took part in Astor's first expedition to the northwest to establish the profitability of...

2024-11-22

Farm development--farmer works a ditch around his field

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Pasco Settlers. Robert McNulty, Unit 1, whose farm is first on the lateral distribution system, works on a ditch around his fields. Much of his acreage is irrigated by a wooden flume, part of which may...

1950-04-28

Farm development--the beginning of embankment construction

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, W-3 Laterals, Specs. 2880. Start of embankment construction on Lateral W-25 station 4+00 to 12+50. Borrow area is on right side of lateral within the R/W. Man in foreground is standing at left toe stake...

1950-05-16

Canal lining and construction--looking upsteream at completed lining

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Looking upstream at the completed lining from the Baily Bridge at Ephrata. Work is being performed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 1 of above...

1950-09-03

Canal lining and construction--preparing for blast

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

Canal lining and construction-- W 645 drain excavation

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Third Section West Canal, Specifications 2844, Schedule 2. View looking northwesterly into ditch being excavated for W 645 drain culvert under third section of the West Canal at station 1632.25. The...

1950-04-04

Construction methods and Long Lake dam--construction of bins and rescreening plant

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Specifications No. 2541, West Canal, Second Section. Contractor: Morrison-Knudsen Inc. View shows construction of bins and rescreening plant installed by subcontractor M.E. Nelson Construction Company...

1950-03-21

Lower Falls of the Columbia. (1814)

1 map: 10 x 18 cm. In the end of October in 1805 the Lewis & Clark expedition reached the Schutes of the Columbia, in the area today known as Cascade Locks. The expedition was forced to portage around these falls on November 1st, and again...

2024-11-22

Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation,...

1 map: blueprint, hand col., 39 x 48 cm. Map shows location of northeastern Washington Territory, with the Colville region outlined in red. It also shows a large portion of northern Idaho territory, established in 1863. Major landforms such as the...

Farm development--men survey a farm outside of Wheeler

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. Predevelopment Farm No. 1; located approx. 2 miles east of Moses Lake, Wash. Crew of Agricultural engineers taking topography in view of land leveling and laying out of irrigation distribution system....

1946-10-10

Canal lining and construction--finished wall sections of chute

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Specifications No. 2844, 3rd Section, West Canal, Schedule 3. Contractor: Minnis and Shilling. Looking downstream into chute from left bank at Station 1992+50 showing finished wall sections of chute....

1950-05-08