Farm development--close up of corn

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. Close-up of corn stalks at Development Farm at Moses Lake.

1947-08-12

Canal lining and construction--cracks in the lining

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, East Low Canal, Specification 1422, Utah Construction Co. and Winston Bros., Contractors. Cracking of an experimental section of the 4 1/2 inch reinforced concrete canal lining which was placed without...

1949-09-30

Canal lining and construction--men working on the rear of the lining machine

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, East Low Canal, Specifications No. 1422--Utah Construction Co. and Winston Bros. Co., Contractor. Close-up view of some of the lining operation. Looking down on the lining as it appears at the rear of...

1948-08-26

Canal lining and construction--men apply curing compounds to the canal

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Workman in the foreground is applying white pigmented curing compound. The two men on the platform in the bottom of the ditch are filling grooves with mastic. The...

1950-05-03

Canal lining and construction--front view of the trimmer in operation

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

Canal lining and construction-- heavy equipment excavation

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

Construction methods and Long Lake dam--rock pockets

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 3rd Section East Low Canal and Weber Wasteway Turnout. Specifications No. 2879. Rock pockets caused by insufficient vibration. Note the reinforcing steel in the lower right corner of the photograph and...

1950-09-22

Canal lining and construction--man negotiates concrete bucket

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, West Canal. Spec. # 1286--Utah construction Co. and Winston Bros. Co. Contractor. Close up view of concrete bucket used in placing of concrete in canal lining in Section 3. Immediately after concrete is...

1947-07-17

Farm development--A.R. Thurman farm

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Pasco Settlers. Typical pasture scene at the A.R. Thurman farm, Unit 27. Many settlers on the project are acquiring fine dairy herds. H. Foss, photographer

1950-08-28

Canal lining and construction--man inspects Soap Lake Siphon

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Soap Lake Siphon, Specifications 2411. The General Electric dry film thickness gage is being used to ascertain that the completed coal-tar enamel coating thickness conforms to specification requirements...

1950-07-17

Canal lining and construction--gravel trap sump

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Soap Lake Siphon, Specs 2411. This photograph shows the gravel trap sump and the baffles with their drains very clearly. Flow is from upper right to lower left of the picture. The iron ladder steps for...

1950-06-21

Canal lining and construction-- Chief Inspector inspects a concrete mixer

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Job-made A.E.A. dispenser on one of the Koehring 34E concrete mixers being examined by Chief Inspector Lloyd C. Russell. It is the rubber bag type, actuated by the...

1950-03-05

Canal lining and construction--close up of lining machine

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Close-up of lining machine showing trailing edge of slip form and hinged spring-loaded pressure plate extending the full length of the slope to trowel the concrete....

1950-05-05

Canal lining and construction--laying concrete on the floor of Winchester Wasteway

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

Canal lining and construction--close-up of drive mechanism

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

Canal lining and construction-- dragline excavation

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

Construction of pipelines, syphons and tunnels--abutment cut-off wall

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Long Lake Dam. Spec. #1401--J.A. Terteling and Sons, Contractor. Looking west at west abutment showing cut-off wall and rock fracture at Station 8+00. Long Lake Dam is two miles northeast of Stratford,...

1947-10-01

Construction of pipelines, syphons and tunnels--entrance to Bacon Tunnel

Columbia Basin Project. Irrigation Division, Bacon Tunnel, Specifications 1236, T.R. Connolly, Inc., Contractors. Looking upstream at the outlet portal of Bacon Tunnel portal structure and open transition is complete except for backfilling and...

1948-11-22

Equipment failures--fracture in reinforcing steel

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, Concrete Laboratory, Ephrata, Washington. View shows fracture area of reinforcing steel specimens tested in laboratory tensile machine. The two-inch square butt-welded specimens, machined to 1 1/2...

1949-06-28

Canal lining and construction--completed drain inlet

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division, 2nd Section West Canal, Specs. 2541. Inlet end of completed drain inlet at station 1175+44. Work is being performed by Morrison-Knudsen, Inc. under Schedule 2 of above Specifications. H.E. Foss,...

1950-06-16

Farm development--corn crop

Columbia Basin Project, Irrigation Division. Corn crop at Moses Lake Predevelopment Farm. A.W. Bauman, photographer

1947-08-12

Canal lining and construction--front view of the slip form lining machine [01]

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

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