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Depositing Spoil onto Conveyor

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Depositing Spoil onto Conveyor
Description Athey 10-yard buggies dumping on grizzly over a feeder to 60-inch east side conveyor. Athey 10-yard buggy depositing aggregate collected from excavation by dumping it onto the feeding belt that began underground. The iron grill structure would prevent large pieces of soil and rock from jamming the conveyor system and would allow even distribution of spoil onto the belt.
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/
Creator Photographer Unknown; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation; United States Department of the Interior: Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Conveying machinery--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Caterpillar Tractor--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Excavation--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Dump trucks--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Conveying Systems--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier 40b5v4p169.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,1316
Date 8/28/1936 2007
Publisher Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Source Columbia Basin Project History (Vol. IV, Page 169)-Cage 40, Box 05 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
Rights To order a reproduction please see: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/policies.htm; or contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691. For permission to publish please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections: (509) 335-6691.
Format Original photographic prints were scanned at 24 bit 3000 pixels by the long side for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. While 24 bit 150 PPI JPEG also created and added to the CONTENTdm database at the WSU Libraries.
Language English

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