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    • F.M. Martin Grain & Milling Co.

    • F.M. Martin Grain & Milling Co.

    • Cheney (Wash.) -- History;Mills; Grain industry; Granaries; Railroad cars; Carts & wagons

    • Photograph of the F.M. Martin Grain & Milling Co., an early mill located on the north side of the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks in Cheney, Washington. Photograph shows Northern Pacific Railroad cars, horses and wagon, bags of grain, and...
    • The Silos

    • The Silos

    • Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction; Silos.

    • Cement storage silos and unloading platform at Grand Coulee. The cement was pumped from this location to the mixing house at the dam, a distance of over a mile.
    • Trains Carrying Concrete

    • Trains Carrying Concrete

    • Concrete construction; Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.

    • Concrete was carried from the mixing plant to the job site in four cubic yard buckets, which were loaded on flat cars, each carrying four of the buckets at a time. The trains ran out onto temporary trestle work, and cranes picked up the buckets,...
    • Benjamin P. Cheney Academy Building

    • Benjamin P. Cheney Academy Building

    • Eastern Washington University -- Buildings -- History; Benjamin P. Cheney Academy (Cheney Wash.)

    • Photograph of the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy (currently Eastern Washington University) building viewed from the southwest. The Benjamin P. Cheney Academy opened in 1882 with an enrollment of over 200 students. The building was destroyed by fire in...
    • Camp Red River hunters

    • Camp Red River hunters

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Carts & wagons; Hunting

    • The train of the Red River hunters consisting "of 824 carts, about 1,200 animals, and 1,300 persons, men, women, and children." The encampment is formed by making "a circular or square yard of the carts, placed side by side with the...
    • Teton Valley

    • Teton Valley

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Teton River (Minn.); Valleys

    • The Teton Valley, "a vast plain, descending towards the east, the soil of inferior quality, and the dry vegetation indicated the change in the climate observed in going over the high, dry plains towards the Missouri." "The valley...
    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys;Waterfalls; Palouse River (Wash.); Palouse Falls (Wash.)

    • "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...
    • Falls of the Spokane

    • Falls of the Spokane

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Waterfalls; Spokane River; Spokane Falls

    • "There are two principle falls, one of twenty feet and the other of from ten to twelve feet; in the latter, there being a perpendicular fall of seven or eight feet; for a quarter of a mile the descent is rapid, over a rough bed of rocks, and...
    • Mom’s Tavern

    • Mom’s Tavern

    • Grand Coulee (Wash. : Coulee);Central business districts -- United States -- History.

    • Mom’s Tavern on “B” Street, in Grand Coulee. The tavern and café are closed, and the boom times are over.
    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State)

    • Looking west near base of the dam, with water coming over the spillway.
    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam

    • Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);

    • Looking east across the dam, with water coming over the spillways.
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