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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: Oiling
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-08-29


    • Oiling makes mile a day.

    • 1935

    • Oiling makes mile a day. - The skid-proof oiling on the Speedball highway to the Grand Coulee dam is progressing at about a mile a day, with two camps, one six miles north of here and the other at Steamboat rock.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-08-29
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-09


    • Oiling and grading smooth Coulee road

    • 1934

    • Oiling and grading smooth Coulee road. - Roads leading into Coulee from neighboring towns are being put into first-class condition by oiling and grading. The Coulee road is now wide, smooth and practically dustless.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-09
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-06


    • Oiling job let at Coulee dam

    • 1935

    • Oiling job let at Coulee dam. - Grant County awards contract for six miles to Lincoln line. - Joslin & McAllister, Spokane, was awarded the contract of grading and surfacing the road from Wilson Creek to Hartline by the Grant county commissioners...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-06
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-10-02


    • Finish oiling work on Coulee highway

    • 1934

    • Finish oiling work on Coulee highway. - Blake & Co. is finishing its work on the new Grand Coulee highway this week. The last oil was put on Saturday. The project was started July 23. About 90 men were employed on the job. Frank Pennepacker,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-10-02
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-20


    • Dam site highway oiling completed

    • 1935

    • Dam site highway oiling completed. - F. R. Hewett Co., Spokane road contractors, finished putting a sealed coat of oil on the Speedball highway between here and the dam site yesterday. The crew was at work four weeks, averaging a mile a day. Joe...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Contractors townsite. 1934-08-21


    • Town to bloom in sagebrush

    • 1934

    • Town to bloom in sagebrush. - Construction of 225 houses to start in 10 days at dam contractor's site. - Grading soon done. - Oiling to follow on streets in week--trees and lawns will be established. - Transforming a wasteland of sagebrush on the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Contractors townsite. 1934-08-21
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-08-28


    • Nespelem highway gets oil

    • 1936

    • Nespelem highway gets oil. - Okanogan county commissioners and Coulee dam area people have concluded arrangements with the state highway department and the Indian service, to co-operate in oiling about four miles of the new road leading from Mason...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-08-28
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-08-23


    • Wilbur-Coulee road is closed

    • 1935

    • Wilbur-Coulee road is closed. - The road from Wilbur to the Coulee dam is being closed today for oiling, the Lincoln county engineer's office notified the Inland Automobile association this afternoon.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-08-23
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 2.


    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur

    • 1936

    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur. - Driving west from Spokane to the Grand Coulee dam site, one follows the Sunset highway through Reardan, Davenport and Creston to Wilbur. The road is paved with concrete to point a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-12


    • Coulee dam road good

    • 1934

    • Coulee dam road good. - Foundation is sufficient to take care of heavy traffic. - If the sample of road oiling on the small stretch completed on the Coulee end of the highway leading is anything to go by, the wst side of the state is going to...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-12
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 1.


    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur

    • 1936

    • Trip to Coulee dam is marked by ever changing vista of grandeur. - Driving west from Spokane to the Grand Coulee dam site, one follows the Sunset highway through Reardan, Davenport and Creston to Wilbur. The road is paved with concrete to a point a...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-06-18. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-09-03


    • Oil fourteen miles of Coulee highway

    • 1934

    • Oil fourteen miles of Coulee highway. - The Blake Co. is moving its oiling plant down the coulee, about 15 miles from its present location, near the Columbia Basin orchards. Fourteen miles of road has been finished so far.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-09-03

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