Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dedication services; Watt, James G., -- 1938-;United States. -- Dept. of the Interior -- Officials and employees;Foley, Thomas S.;Spellman, John.
Secretary of Interior James G. Watt speaking at the dedication of the third power house at Grand Coulee Dam. Congressman Thomas Foley seated immediately behind Secretary Watt, Governor John Spellman seated at far right, visible over standing...
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,...
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.
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...
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Details; Church architecture -- Washington (State); Carving
Photograph of a stone carver at work on the limestone panel to be installed over the front doors of the main entrance to St. John's Cathedral, Spokane Washington.
"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...
"Minnehaha, or the Laughing Water, called also Brown's Falls. It is situated west of the Mississippi, and distant about three miles from Fort Snelling. Ten miles above the falls the stream flows from Lake Calhoun, and it passes through a level...
The lock is a single lift type, 86 feet wide and 683 feet long, with a 15-foot minimum depth over the sills. The vertical lifts average 75 feet. The lock is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River.
A conical mound near the center of a beautiful prairie called the "Deer Lodge". The mound stands "about thirty feet high, around the base of which are innumerable springs of hot water. On top of the mound a spring three feet in...
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
The initial level of concrete has been poured across the entire distance of the bottom of the dam. The Columbia is flowing over the central portion of the dam.