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Sawmill Erection

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Title Sawmill Erection
Description The Bureau of Reclamation is erecting a sawmill and planer, with a normal daily capacity of approximately 25,000 board-feet, on the west shore of the reservoir, in the area of Ryan's dump. The sawmill building (at the left) is of heavy timber construction, 24' x 88' in size; a green-chain shed (at right angles to the sawmill building) of light timber construction 20' x 80'; and the planning mill (at right angles to the green-chain shed) of heavy timber construction, approximately 20' x 60'.... The Bureau of Reclamation is erecting a sawmill and planer, with a normal daily capacity of approximately 25,000 board-feet, on the west shore of the reservoir, in the area of Ryan's dump. The sawmill building (at the left) is of heavy timber construction, 24' x 88' in size; a green-chain shed (at right angles to the sawmill building) of light timber construction 20' x 80' and the planning mill (at right angles to the green-chain shed) of heavy timber construction, approximately 20' x 60'....
Creator United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Subject Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; United States. Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.B.R.); Sawmills--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam
Coverage Sawmills--Washington; (State)--Grand Coulee Dam; Reservoirs--Washington (State)--Grand Coulee Dam United States--Washington (State)--Grant County--Grand Coulee Dam site, Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.)
Type Photographs
Identifier cg040b07v10p108.jpg http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/banks,4822
Date 12/22/1942 2010
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. X, Page 108)-Cage 40, Box 07 of the Frank Arthur Banks Papers, 1913-1957: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/Holland/masc/finders/cg40.htm
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Format Original photographic prints scanned at 24 bit color, with 4000 pixels by the long side, for master TIFF files on an Epson Expression 10,000 XL scanner. Prints were then batch translated into JPEG files. These JPEGs were then added to the CONTENTdm database at WSU Libraries.
Language English

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