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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-02-16


    • Omache route funds sought

    • 1935

    • Omache route funds sought. - Application in for $300,000 to finish road to Grand Coulee dam site. - Application for $300,000 in public works funds to build the Omache Lake highway from Okanogan and Omak to the Grand Coulee dam has been made by the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-02-16
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-08


    • Forward Spokane club for Coulee highway!

    • 1935

    • Forward Spokane club for Coulee highway!. - Tourist and freight traffic proving need daily for hard surface pavement to dam. - The plan to put down a hard surface pavement over every inch of the route from Riverside avenue to Coulee dam carries the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-08
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1933-07-29. p. 1.


    • Martin promises that road will be built to site of dam when needed.

    • 1933

    • Martin promises that road will be built to site of dam when needed. - In officially announcing his approval of the Grand Coulee power development project and loan from the public works fund to cover the cost of construction, President Roosevelt...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1933-07-29. p. 1.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-07-03


    • Roads at dam poor

    • 1934

    • Roads at dam poor. - Although a fortune is being spent on dam engineering work here, the state is doing little about the roads, a survey this week indicated. All roads are said to be nightmares for the motorists.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-07-03
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-06


    • A link in the chain

    • 1935

    • A link in the chain. - One link in the chain which will unite Coulee dam and Spokane with a hard-surface highway began to take form Wednesday, when representatives from cities along the route passed the following resolution in a meeting here: ...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-06
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-08. p. 2.


    • Deny CWA road at Coulee dam

    • 1934

    • Deny CWA road at Coulee dam. - Lincoln county welfare board refuses to approve job to cost $66,000. - Grant officials visit. - Say they have no money to repair route over slippage--Movie for Nespelem. - Hopes for unemployment relief for some of the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-08. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-04


    • Rain aided all Coulee roads

    • 1934

    • Rain aided all Coulee roads. - Inland automobile association scout car toured highways Friday. - No dust on routes. - Gathers data on mileage and conditions on each highway. - A scout car of the Inland Automobile association, occupied by Frank W....
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-08-04
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-04-30


    • Union men o. k. road to dam

    • 1935

    • Union men o. k. road to dam. - Labor council favors project--Dern probes knabenshue talk. - An indorsement was voted last night by the Spokane Central Labor council of the plan being urged by the Inland Automobile association for a paved highway...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-04-30
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-20


    • Rush road work at Coulee city

    • 1934

    • Rush road work at Coulee city. - A tractor and grader were today placed in operation near this city on the work of constructing the new Grand Coulee highway leading from Coulee City to the dam site. Twenty men and 12 teams were at work today, which...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-28


    • Hint dam road to employ 400

    • 1934

    • Hint dam road to employ 400. - NRS asked for 50 men and Lincoln county to supply 350 at Broadax. - Indications that 400 men and 15 teams will be at work next week on the road from the Grant county line, near here, to Wilbur, were seen today by an...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-28
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-11


    • Street surfacing planned.

    • 1935

    • Street surfacing planned. - Money has been raised by the Grand Coulee Businessmen's association for the surfacing of the main block on B street, main arterial of the town site. Work is expected to start about October 1. The finished street will be...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-09-11
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Homeseekers. 1934-10-30


    • Midwesterners seeks to colonize in basin

    • 1934

    • Midwesterners seeks to colonize in basin. - A colony of 300 families is ready to move onto the lands of the Columbia basin, John Greer and J. F. Johnson of the Quincy Commercial club revealed today, an Associated Press dispatch from Wenatchee says.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Homeseekers. 1934-10-30
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-01-30


    • Soon to better dam site roads

    • 1934

    • Soon to better dam site roads. - Murrow writes of eagerness to start work--Gray criticizes truck permits. - Lacey Murrow, state highway director, in a letter to State Senator W. P. Gray, Wilbur, today said that steps would be taken at once to...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-01-30
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-17


    • Tonasket business men drive for good roads

    • 1935

    • Tonasket business men drive for good roads. - The Tonasket business men's group is putting on a strong campaign for good roads in that district. Arthur Lund, banker, is chairman of the committee.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1935-06-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-08-07


    • Coulee dam highways deadly

    • 1936

    • Coulee dam highways deadly. - Classed by insurance companies as "extra hazardous employment," work in Grand Coulee dam's construction danger zones is no more dangerous than driving on the highways, recently prepared records reveal.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1936-08-07
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-07-17


    • Road to damsite graded by F. R.

    • 1934

    • Road to damsite graded by F. R. - So that President Roosevelt will not get the "bumps" when he drives over the dam site highway, the United States reclamation bureau and Goodfellow brothers, contractors, today are bringing back up to grade the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-07-17
    • 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

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