Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Shows construction method for the lower portion of the dam. Alternating blocks were constructed. The Columbia River was forced through slots by placement of temporary gates on the upstream side of the dam.
"The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...