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Gravel Wash

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Title Gravel Wash
Description Hydraulic jets wash the gravel as it is screened into the proper sizes at the aggregate processing plant. On several occasions the plant processed material at the rate of 4,.000 tons per hour. All of the mined material passed through this wash basin to then be sorted according to four sizes, 3/4,; 1-1 1/2,; 3,; and 6.(CBPH VII, 138)
Relation Part of Western Waters Digital Library: http://harvester.lib.utah.edu/wwdl/; Messrs. Johnson and Erickson selected photographs from photographers Pomeroy, Robinson, and Russell.
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Stone and ore breakers--Grand Coulee Dam; Aggregate processing plants--Washington (State)--Columbia River Valley; Brett gravel pit (Wash.)--Cement--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Excavation United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type photographs
Identifier 40b7v7p136.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,2763
Date 11/3/1939 2008
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. VII, Page 136)-Cage 40, Box 7 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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