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  • Newspaper: 1936-03-17
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-03-17


    • Old man Columbia cheated of prey by dam engineers

    • 1936

    • Old man Columbia cheated of prey by dam engineers. - Old Man River couldn't fool engineers of the MWAK company during the recent ice breakup in the Columbia river above the temporary bridge on which travels the endless belt conveyor. the engineers...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-03-17
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-17


    • Vital part of vital Bonneville machine.

    • 1936

    • Vital part of vital Bonneville machine. - The speed ring of the service generator turbine at the big dam. Inside the lattice work rotates the blades of the turbine, which will be directly connected to the generator and supply current for all...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Bonneville dam. Construction. General. 1936-03-17


    • Blast rips out big cofferdam

    • 1936

    • Blast rips out big cofferdam. - Columbia river turned to old channel. - Works that for nearly year had diverted stream quickly removed / by Lee Bostwick
      It was zero hour at 6:45 A. M. yesterday at Bonneville; there was the roar of explosives;...
    • State history. Bonneville dam. Construction. General. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Excavation. 1936-03-17


    • Coulee dam - Earth on move again on west

    • 1936

    • Coulee dam - Earth on move again on west. - Conveyor clearing out area between block 40 and coffer--"zoo" increases. - Removal of the earth between the west side excavation and block 40 was started today by the contractors and the conveyor belt...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Excavation. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1936-03-17


    • Huge trestle speeds Grand Coulee construction

    • 1936

    • Huge trestle speeds Grand Coulee construction. - Winter's cold over, pouring of concrete at the Grand Coulee dam project on the Columbia river in Washington has been speeded. The trestle here, nearly 200 feet high, is only a temporary structure for...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1936-03-17
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1936-03-17


    • Columbia basin control requested.

    • 1936

    • Columbia basin control requested. - Ickes urges enactment of legislation to administer dam project. - Enactment of legislation at this session of Congress for administering the Grand Coulee and Bonneville projects on the Columbia river was urged...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1936-03-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-17


    • Tamarack ore shown - samples from Monroe vein said to be rich - drift advances six feet daily - crown point shoot next in line to be cut

    • 1936

    • Tamarack ore shown - samples from Monroe vein said to be rich - drift advances six feet daily - crown point shoot next in line to be cut - Samples of ore from the shoot struck recently on the deep level of the Tamarack & Custer were displayed in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1936-03-17


    • Favors agency

    • 1936

    • Favors agency. - Public works administrator Harold L. Ickes today urged passage of legislation at this session of congress creating a Pacific Northwest agency to administer the Grand Coulee and Bonneville projects either singlely or together. The...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1936-03-17
    • Northwest history. Incorporations & mergers. 1936-03-17


    • "Gateway city" will try again

    • 1936

    • "Gateway city" will try again. - What failed 40 year ago will be attempted again by the Northdalles Company, which incorporated today to establish an interior gateway city across the river from here in Klickitat county, Wash.
    • Northwest history. Incorporations & mergers. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-03-17


    • Road boosters will make tour

    • 1936

    • Road boosters will make tour. - A caravan of 45 from western Washington and Yakima and vicinity will cross the Columbia river here tomorrow morning to be joined by others at Othello, Lind and Ritzville for a trip through eastern Washington in the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Silas B. Mason. 1936-03-17


    • MWAK head on scene.

    • 1936

    • MWAK head on scene. - Silas B. Mason, chairman of the board of the MWAK, has been a familiar figure on the job the last few days, since his return from California. Dressed in a business suit, derby and carrying a cane, he takes an active interest...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Silas B. Mason. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Politics. 1936-03-17


    • Ickes urging N. W. have CVA

    • 1936

    • Ickes urging N. W. have CVA. - Public Works Administrator Harold L. Ickes today urged passage of legislation at this session of congress creating a Pacific northwest agency to administer the Grand Coulee and Bonneville projects either singlely or...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Politics. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Native Americans. Employment. 1936-03-17


    • One-third ft. hall Indians literate

    • 1936

    • One-third ft. hall Indians literate. - One third of the Indians of the Fort Hall reservation are literate, it was shown by a report just released by H. A. Ireland, extension director. Out of the population of 1841, there are 1200 Indians able to...
    • State history. Native Americans. Employment. 1936-03-17
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1936-03-17


    • Indian 'Potlatches' doomed by Canada

    • 1936

    • Indian 'Potlatches' doomed by Canada. - New legislation introduced by the Federal Government in the Canadian Parliament will finally abolish the Indian custom of potlatching on the British Columbia coast.
    • State history. Native Americans. Legislation. 1936-03-17

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